INDIANAPOLIS — The U.S. federal government is currently in a shutdown because congress can't agree on how much money to spend moving forward.

This is far from the first government shutdown, but they are relatively rare. Unless you happened to be in school during a government shutdown, you probably didn't get taught in class what would happen if Congress didn't pass a budget.

For anyone who is new to the issue or just wants to brush up on how we got here, we put together this guide:

A government shutdown means that all "non-essential" federal government work stops. The government itself gets some leeway to decide what is essential work and what isn't. But even essential workers often won't get paid until a shutdown ends. That means military personnel, air traffic controllers and post off

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