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US government shutdown begins after Congress fails to reach deal
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01-10-2025 | 09:01
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US government shutdown begins after Congress fails to reach deal
The U.S. government began shutting down on Wednesday after lawmakers and President Donald Trump failed to break a budget impasse during acrimonious talks that hinged on Democratic demands for health care funding.
Republicans and Democrats immediately blamed each other for the deadlock that will impact hundreds of thousands of government workers and the millions of Americans who use the services they provide.
The shutdown, which will stop work at multiple federal departments and agencies, comes as deep partisan divisions in Washington have raised fears over the length and consequences of the halt.
Trump threatened to punish Democrats and their voters by targeting progressive priorities and forcing mass public sector job cuts during the first stoppage since the one during his previous term.
"So we'd be laying off a lot of people who are going to be very affected. And they're Democrats, they're going to be Democrats," Trump told reporters, adding a "lot of good can come down from shutdowns."
Multiple U.S. embassies announced on X that their accounts would only be updated with "urgent safety and security information," while NASA said it was "CLOSED due to a lapse in Government funding."
Government operations began grinding to a halt at 12:01 a.m. (0401 GMT) Wednesday, after a frenetic but ultimately failed bid in the Senate to rubber-stamp a short-term funding resolution already approved by the House of Representatives.
Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement that "Trump and Republicans have now shut down the federal government because they do not want to protect the health care of the American people."
"Democrats remain ready to find a bipartisan path forward to reopen the government," but will need a "credible partner," said the statement published just after the deadline passed.
The shutdown will not affect vital functions like the Postal Service, the military, and welfare programs like Social Security and food stamps.
But up to 750,000 workers could be sent home each day and would not be paid until the shutdown was over, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
This is the first shutdown since the longest one in U.S. history -- lasting 35 days -- that began almost seven years ago during Trump's previous term.
Hopes of a compromise had been hanging by a thread since Monday, when a last-gasp meeting at the White House yielded no progress.
The gridlocked Congress regularly runs into deadlines to agree on spending plans, and the negotiations are invariably fraught. But Congress usually avoids them, ending in shutdowns.
Democrats, in the minority in both chambers of Congress, have been seeking to flex their rare leverage over the federal government eight months into Trump's second presidency, that has seen entire government agencies dismantled.
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