As lawmakers head home for the weekend – ensuring the shutdown will drag into the next week – another week has passed on Capitol Hill with little, if any, progress to reopen the government.

Asked whether there was anything that occurred this week that brings Congress any closer to reopening government, the resounding consensus was no.

"No, none," Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told ABC News. "I think we're at an impasse. I think we're going to go into November. It's horrible."

"I can't tell you how wrong it is, I think, to make people suffer because of it, and people are suffering," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said. "I mean, I know that in this building, it's like, oh, this is just a political game. This is not a game."

Despite the lack of momentum to end the shutdown, Lummis does not believe that President Donald Trump needs to get more involved to break the stalemate.

"I think that this is something that the Congress needs to handle among itself. We know what they're asking for," Lummis said. "It's $1.5 trillion and they want to put a band aid on Obamacare when Obamacare needs to be addressed for its underlying inability to deliver affordable health care. So there's a lot of work to do."

-ABC News' John Parkinson

The Senate failed to advance Sen. Ron Johnson's, R-Wis., bill that would have provided pay to some federal workers during the shutdown on Thursday by a vote of 55-45. It would have needed 60 votes to advance.

Democratic Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., voted with all Republicans to advance the bill. All other Democrats voted against it, effectively blocking it from advancing.

Majority Leader John Thune flipped his vote to a no at the end of the roll call, a procedural move that allows the legislation to be more quickly reconsidered in the future.

There are a few Senators who have been consistently voting against their party during the repeated effort by Republicans over the past few weeks to pass a clean funding bill that would reopen the government through Nov. 21. This vote broke differently. Most of those senators voted with their party on this bill.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who has been opposing the short-term funding bill, voted to advance Johnson's bill today. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Independent Angus King, who have been consistently voting for the stopgap funding bill despite Democratic opposition to it, stuck with Democrats and voted to oppose this legislation.

Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote both for the short-term funding bill and this bill.

ABC News' Allison Pecorin

Senators are meeting on Thursday for a rare bipartisan lunch as the government shutdown stretches on. The gathering is being hosted by Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

The lunch has been scheduled for several weeks and was set on the calendar before the government shutdown began, but now comes amid a weekslong impasse on funding. Several lawmakers were seen arriving for the lunch, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

The Department of Agriculture will resume some farmer assistance operations this week amid the ongoing government shutdown, Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday on X, following criticism from farmers and Republicans and calls for more support.

Rollins said the Farm Service Agency will resume "core operations" and resume distribution of $3 billion in assistance currently in the agency's reserves, through the same pipeline used to give farmers more than $20 billion in support in the first Trump administration.

A larger package promised by Rollins and the Trump administration to help soybean farmers and others has been delayed by the shutdown. The administration has discussed funding it with tariff revenues, but has yet to release details.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez