The United States federal government officially entered a partial shutdown at midnight after Congress failed to pass legislation to fund government operations, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees temporarily furloughed and critical services suspended. This is the country's 15th funding stoppage since 1981 and the first since the 35-day shutdown of 2018-2019.

Federal offices started to cut back on operations at 12:01 a.m after Senate Democrats managed to filibuster a Republican-authored stopgap bill aimed at maintaining the government in operation until November 21.

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Health Care Standoff Leads To Shutdown

Legislative breakdown was based on Democrats' demand that the bill be passed with an extension of health-care subsidies and a reversal

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