Senate, Federal government and shutdown
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Both Republican and Democratic proposals that would have funded the government past Tuesday failed in the Senate, before the 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
The government began to shut down overnight after Democrats and Republicans failed to come to an agreement to extend government funding ahead of the Oct. 1, 2025, deadline.
The U.S. government is under its first federal government shutdown in almost seven years as Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he expects the Senate to begin voting at 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday on competing Democratic and Republican proposals to fund the government, but both
Democrats and Republicans have been unable to resolve an impasse over federal health care spending. The government will shut down at the end of the day Tuesday barring a last-minute breakthrough.