By Sahil Kapur, Julie Tsirkin and Gabe Gutierrez The U.S. government officially shut down at midnight after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement on how to extend federal funding. President Donald Trump’s Republican Party controls both chambers of Congress, but it needs Democratic support to pass a bill in the Senate, where 60 votes are required. And the two parties failed to craft a bipartisan bill, with the Senate rejecting both a GOP proposal and a Democratic proposal just hours before the shutdown deadline. It’s the first government shutdown since 2018, in Trump’s first term, which was the longest ever at 34
The post U.S. government shuts down as Trump and Congress fail to reach a funding deal appeared first on HBCU News.
