Funding to keep the federal government running expires after Republicans and Democrats fail to reach a deal.
The United States government has partially shut down after last-ditch efforts by lawmakers to pass a spending bill failed.
Funding to keep the federal government running expired at 00:01 EDT (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate rejected rival stopgap proposals.
While the US government has partially ceased operations more than a dozen times since 1980, President Donald Trump’s threats to use the funding lapse to dramatically reduce the size of the public sector have raised the prospect of greater disruption than in past shutdowns.
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