The United States government has gone dark - again. At 12:01am on Wednesday morning, Congress missed the deadline to pass a stopgap funding bill. Agencies began powering down. Federal workers were told not to come in. And the political blamegame in Washington escalated into a dangerous and unpredictable test of endurance. TL:DR: Driving the news A showdown years in the making This is the first federal shutdown since the winter of 2018-2019, when Trump held the government hostage over border wall funding. That standoff lasted 35 days, the longest in US history. But this time is different - more ideological, less theatrical, and with potentially more lasting damage. The immediate conflict centers around the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies, which helped millions o

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