US Shutdown: Washington has gone dark. At 12:01 am on Wednesday, the world’s most powerful government slammed to a halt. Lights stayed on inside federal buildings, but paychecks vanished.

The shutdown began as the new fiscal year ticked over. Funding for the past year expired. No deal replaced it. The Congress froze in deadlock.

Republicans hold both chambers, but they could not pull together enough votes for their bill to keep operations alive until late November. Democrats refused to bend without a reversal of the Medicaid cuts that rolled out under President Donald Trump’s July bill. Talks collapsed.

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The Human Toll

The shutdown means furloughs. Entire offices stand emptied. Cleaning crews and contractors have been told nothing. Nearly 750,000 fed

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