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Top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left yesterday's meeting with President Trump without a plan to fund the government. Federal agencies run out of money at midnight tonight. The meeting, which also included Vice President JD Vance, was a last-minute attempt to resolve a weeks-long standoff between the parties over spending. Vance made it clear that the GOP wouldn't agree to Democrats' demands to attach health care provisions to a spending bill. Here's what a government shutdown could affect around the country .

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