U.S. government faces first shutdown in almost 7 years

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The partisan standoff centers on healthcare subsidies and spending, with hundreds of thousands of federal workers potentially furloughed or laid off.

Trump posted a fake mocking video of Democratic leaders after bipartisan White House talks failed to yield progress on avoiding the shutdown.

WASHINGTON — With a government shutdown looming, Democrats and Republicans angrily blamed each other and refused to budge from their positions Tuesday, unable to find agreement or even negotiate as hundreds of thousands of federal workers stood to be furloughed or laid off.

The partisan standoff over healthcare and spending threatened to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost se