The US Capitol successful Washington, DC, US, connected Monday, Sept. 29, 2025.
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The United States government shut down aboriginal Wednesday morning, mounting the signifier for the furlough of hundreds of thousands of national workers and the shuttering of a slew of cardinal programs and services.
Here's what to know:
- The afloat shutdown began aft apical Democrats and Republicans, including President Donald Trump, failed to hold connected a short-term woody to support the authorities funded.
- Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, request that immoderate stopgap backing measurement see an hold of enhanced Obamacare taxation credits.
- Trump suggested Tuesday that his medication could instrumentality large actions during a shutdown, including cutting authorities benefits for "large numbers of people."
- The Senate adjourned aft last-ditch votes connected Republican and Democratic backing proposals some failed to pass.
Government shutdown history: The longest was nether Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks successful the Oval Office, connected the time helium signs an enforcement bid connected AI and pediatric crab research, astatine the White House, Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 30, 2025.
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The afloat shutdown began astatine midnight Wednesday aft Democratic and Republican leaders failed to hold connected adjacent a short-term woody to support the authorities afloat funded past the existent fiscal year.
It is unclear conscionable however agelong the shutdown volition last, oregon however wide its impacts volition be.
The national authorities has either unopen down oregon experienced backing gaps 14 times since 1980.
The longest shutdown connected grounds started successful precocious 2018, erstwhile the authorities partially shuttered for astir 5 weeks amid disputes implicit backing Trump's projected U.S.-Mexico borderline wall.
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