Wednesday’s federal government shutdown left workers to confront lost income, layoffs, and, for some, a complicated sense of relief that Democrats are challenging President Donald Trump .

The shutdown began at midnight Tuesday after Congress failed to approve a funding bill that would have kept agencies operating until Nov. 21. Lawmakers remained deadlocked over Democratic demands to extend expiring enhanced Obamacare subsidies , a fight that Republicans and the White House refuse to have until the government reopens.

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