By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – Democrats on Wednesday blocked Republicans’ plans to pass the spending bill in the Senate as a consequence, the funding for US government departments will be cut and will bring a few federal services to a halt.
The US government has shut down as lawmakers failed to achieve a breakthrough on a funding bill, media reported
Democratic leaders met US President Donald Trump on Monday but failed to an agreement.
Trump shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social, mocked the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
He continued to blame Democrats, stated that he “didn’t see them bend even a little bit.”
Trump also threatened to fire more federal workers during the shutdown.
“When you shut it down, you have to do layoffs, we’d be laying off a lot of people,” Trump said.
Democrats are demanding to reverse the healthcare cuts in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which was passed earlier this year.
Republicans asserted they would not agree to Democrats’ demands and had proposed to extend funding until November 21.
GOP control both the Senate and the House of Representatives, they are 7 votes short in the Senate as the funding bill requires 60 votes to pass.
It is the first US government shutdown in 7 years, as the last one happened under Trump 1.0 and lasted for 35 days – the longest in history.
The essential services such as border protection, law enforcement and air-traffic control would continue to function while food assistance programmes, government-funded pre-school, food inspectors and operations at national parks could be adversely affected.
Media reported that if the shutdown is extended over a long period, air travel could face challenges as many of those workers would be forced to work without pay and may not report for duty.
