Congress blew past a midnight funding deadline, triggering the U.S. government’s first shutdown in nearly seven years — and the third under President Donald Trump.

The White House’s budget office ordered agencies to begin executing their plans for a funding lapse, shuttering the government aside from essential duties, disrupting the jobs of hundreds of thousands of Americans and upending many public services. Copy article link

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