The United States government shut down most of its operations on Wednesday after the White House and Congress failed to reach an agreement on federal funding before a scheduled deadline, Reuters reported.

More than 7.5 lakh federal employees are expected to be furloughed or temporarily discharged and some could be fired by the Donald Trump administration during the standoff, the Associated Press reported.

Several government offices will remain shut during the period. However, the US is expected to continue deporting undocumented migrants, even as education and environmental programmes face uncertainty about funding.

The current impasse began after the Senate, which is the Upper House of the Congress, rejected a short-term spending measure that would have kept government servic

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