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House Republicans leaders officially canceled votes for next Monday, Oct. 20 as the shutdown continues.

Speaker Mike Johnson plans to keep the House on an indefinite 48-hour notice return, meaning the House will be out again all next week unless there is Senate action to resolve the government shutdown.

Next week will be the fourth conservative week the House has been on recess. The House took its last vote on Sept. 19 and was also on recess the week of Sept. 22 for the Jewish holidays.

There are no House committee hearings or markups scheduled for next week.

ABC News' Lauren Peller

House Speaker Mike Johnson reflected on another week of the shutdown -- issuing a public apology to the millions of Americans who are "suffering."

"I just feel like we ought to apologize," Johnson said at a news conference on Friday, Day 17 of the shutdown. "I hate that we have to do this. I don't want to be here any more than you do talking about this subject. It is so difficult to be a happy warrior when you know that so many millions of American people are suffering," he said.

Johnson blamed Democrats for the ongoing shutdown -- calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer again to reopen the government.

"We're afraid that Americans are going to continue to suffer at the hands of Democrats' political games," he said.

ABC News' John Parkinson, Selina Wang and Lauren Peller

On Day 17 of the government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is standing firm against Republican pressure to end the standoff -- insisting Democrats remain united as partisanship continues to block a breakthrough.

"House and Senate Democrats are going to continue to hold firm as it relates to a basic common sense position, that when we enact spending bills we should be helping the American people, not hurting them," Jeffries told reporters Friday morning.

He added that Democrats "will not support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the healthcare of the American people."

"Let's sit down in good faith to reopen the government," Jeffries said.

Asked by ABC News about when the pain of a shutdown might reach a breaking point for Democrats' heath care demands, Jeffries blamed Republicans and their absence on Capitol Hill .

"Part of the problem is that House Republicans are nowhere to be found, literally, have been on vacation for three consecutive weeks," Jeffries said.

-ABC News' Selina Wang, Lauren Peller and John Parkinson

The Senate has adjourned until 3 p.m. on Monday.

The move comes after Democrats blocked the chamber from moving forward on a clean government funding bill for the 10th time. Democrats also stopped the Senate from moving forward with debate on a full-year funding bill for the Department of Defense.

The government will remain shut down until at least Monday, Oct. 20. It will be the 20th day of the shutdown.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin