WASHINGTON — The federal government shut down on Wednesday morning at 12:01 a.m. ET, amid a bitter spending deadlock between President Donald Trump and Democrats in Congress that will disrupt federal services and leave many federal workers furloughed.

It was the first federal shutdown since 2019, when parts of the government were shuttered for 35 days in a standoff between congressional Democrats and Trump over the president’s demand to fund a wall at the southern border.

This time, the dispute is over Democrats’ demand that the president agree to extend expiring health care subsidies and restore Medicaid cuts enacted over the summer as part of Trump’s marquee tax cut and domestic policy law.

The shutdown became all but inevitable on Tuesday night after Senate Democrats voted just hours

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