What happened

Much of the U.S. government shut down at midnight after the Senate failed to approve rival stopgap spending measures. Democrats said they won’t vote for a deal that doesn’t renew Affordable Care Act health care subsidies for 24 million people; Republicans said they won’t negotiate during a shutdown. This is the 15th shutdown since 1981, the first since 2019 and the first full government closure — Congress has passed zero annual spending bills — since 2013.

Who said what

This “could be a long, grueling standoff,” with “no clear path out of the impasse,” Reuters said. After cursory negotiations with President Donald Trump earlier this week, The New York Times said, “lawmakers in both parties” spent Tuesday night “pointing fingers at one another for the coming crisis,” wh

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