US government shutdown 2025: The US Senate passed a bill on Monday (November 10) to end the longest ever government shutdown, 41 days after it began. This was made possible by a minority group of Democrats who supported the Republican spending package that omitted a key healthcare spending provision that the Democratic Party had demanded.

The shutdown has put millions of Americans at risk of losing their food benefits, resulted in the cancellations of thousands of flights, and furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers without pay.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the bill on Wednesday, where the small Republican majority will likely run into fierce Democratic opposition.

What triggered the present shutdown?

A government shutdown typically results when

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