The federal government shut down early Wednesday following an acrimonious deadlock in Congress over spending in which Democrats have sought to put a spotlight on health care subsidies and who is eligible to receive coverage.

Senate Democrats rejected a Republican-led proposal that would have extended funding at current levels until Nov. 21, voting nearly along party lines. The shutdown is the first since January 2019, when President Donald Trump was previously in office.

Democrats had said they could not support a GOP-led funding extension until Republicans agreed to certain concessions on health care policy, primarily the continuation of pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies that were set to expire by the end of the year.

Republicans countered those demands by falsely claiming tha

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