LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Democrats say Republicans are to blame. Republicans say Democrats are to blame.

At the stroke of midnight, a shutdown of the American government will indiscriminately impact tens of thousands across Kentucky and Southern Indiana.

Local lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree they want to avoid a shutdown. They disagree on who is to blame for the mess in the first place.

“I’ve already reached out to people at TSA, to the air traffic controllers, to people at HUD getting those numbers together,” Representative Morgan McGarvey, D-K.Y., said. “If the Republicans insist on shutting the government down and they want to do it for a long time, like Donald Trump did the last time he was president, then it causes major disruptions for everybody in all different types o

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