Current funding expires at the end of Friday, March 14. If a funding bill is not passed, then the government will see itself forced to furlough thousands of federal workers and reduce federal services. Thousands of federal employees have already been laid off as part of Trump’s cost-cutting measures across the government.

Congress has less than two weeks to extend a federal funding deadline, but lawmakers are arguing over whether the White House will really spend the money they approve.

Congress has less than two weeks to avoid a shutdown, and this one might actually happen. The U.S. House and Senate have until March 14 to avoid a shutdown of the federal government. And at the moment,