(WASHINGTON) — The federal government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday, halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in a striking display of Washington dysfunction. Last-minute negotiations crumbled as Senate Democrats blocked a four-week stopgap extension in a late-night vote, causing the fourth government shutdown in a quarter century.
U.s. Government Shuts Down As Democrats And Republicans Trade Blame
Zeke Miller, Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram / AP, Time: Politics
Fri, 01/19/2018 - 10:22pm
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