Pennsylvania’s federal lawmakers on Tuesday evening lamented an impending government shutdown and pointed fingers about which political party was to blame, with thousands of workers and families across the Keystone State and country now bracing for the first stoppage in seven years.

With no deal reached in a White House meeting Monday, Republican House members largely gone from Washington on Tuesday and senators of both parties unable to come together on a last-minute bipartisan spending plan, federal funding for many workers and services will run dry at midnight.

Democrats have continued to press Republicans to include in any spending plan extensions to Affordable Care Act subsidies and reversals of some of this summer’s GOP-led cuts to Medicaid. President Donald Trump and Republican

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