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The blame game over the first federal government shutdown in seven years is intensifying.

With neither President Donald Trump and the Republican majority in Congress, nor congressional Democrats, willing to lower the temperature, the government shut down at midnight Tuesday.

And both sides are blasting each other in a verbal fistfight with plenty of policy and political implications as next year's battle for Congress heats up.

"IT’S MIDNIGHT. That means the Republican shutdown has just begun because they wouldn’t protect Americans’ health care. We’re going to keep fighting for the American people," Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer posted on social media as the shutdown began.

TRUMP'S WARNING AS THE FEDERAL GOV

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