CHARLESTON – With no short-term deal in place to keep the federal government funded over the next several weeks, non-essential services will begin to shut down Wednesday, affecting thousands of federal employees in West Virginia.

In two votes Tuesday night, the U.S. Senate could not reach the 60-vote threshold needed to move forward on either the U.S. House of Representative’s Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, a clean continuing resolution passed two weeks ago; or a continuing resolution sponsored by the Senate Democratic minority that included an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that were set to expire at the end of the year.

U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, both R-W.Va., voted in favor of a motion to reconsider an earlier vote on the House resoluti

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