US government shuts down after senate fails to pass funding bill

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The US government entered its first shutdown in six years after the Senate failed to pass a stopgap funding bill in a 55-45 vote. Operations halted at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, deepening uncertainty as President Donald Trump threatened further layoffs of federal employees amid rising tensions.

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00:00Deadlock over healthcare spending in United States.

00:03U.S. government forced to shut down.

00:05Senate Democrats vote down key bill.

00:07White House says affected agencies can shut down.

00:10U.S. government shut down for the first time in seven years.

00:14So that's the breaking news that's coming in from the United States

00:17where there's a deadlock over healthcare and spending in U.S.

00:22The U.S. government has been forced to shut down.

00:25The Senate Democrats voted down a key bill

00:28and after which the White House even said that the affected agencies can shut down.

00:33Now, it is pertinent to note that this is the first time the U.S. government,

00:38this is the first U.S. government shut down in the last seven years.

00:47So the deadlock over healthcare and spending in U.S.,

00:52the U.S. government is now forced to shut down.

00:55This is the first time in seven years that the U.S. government is forced to shut down

01:00and the Senate Democrats have voted down a key bill on the spendings

01:06and the White House says that the agencies that are affected by this can shut down.

01:12So that's the breaking news that's coming in from the United States

01:19where there's a deadlock over healthcare and spending

01:21and the U.S. government is inching towards shutdown.

01:25The Senate Democrats have voted down a key bill on the spending

01:29and the White House has said that the agencies that are affected can shut down.

01:39And the U.S. government, this is the first time that the U.S. government

01:43is inching towards a shutdown in seven years.

01:47India Today's Geeta Mohan is now joining us with more details on this.

01:51Geeta, there's a deadlock over healthcare and spending in the U.S.

01:54after which the U.S. government is inching towards shutdown.

01:57Give us more details on this.

02:00Well, there is an executive department and agencies memorandum

02:06that has been put out by the president's office

02:09which clearly says pinning the blame on Democrats

02:15saying that they did not clear the passage of the bill

02:20and blocking it would mean that there is going to be a complete shutdown from 12 a.m.

02:29which starts right now.

02:31What the document says is that the policy demands of the Democrats are insane

02:38which include $1 trillion in new spending.

02:42So now the president's office has said that while they continue to support the 5371 bill for funding

02:50it has not gone through.

02:52So there will be a government shutdown.

02:54It is unprecedented in many ways than one

02:58and the document asks affected agencies

03:02which is primarily healthcare agencies

03:04that they execute their plans for an orderly shutdown.

03:10And it also goes on to say that it is unclear how long Democrats will maintain

03:15their untenable posture

03:17making the duration of the shutdown difficult to predict.

03:21So now the shutdown has begun

03:23and the government does not have a time frame in mind

03:28as to how long the shutdown will continue

03:30which means it could lead to furloughs and layoffs

03:33in the healthcare sector in the United States of America.

03:37This is federal funding which has been blocked

03:41the passage of which has been blocked by Democrats

03:44and another memorandum indicating that government functions

03:49should resume once the president has signed a bill providing for appropriation

03:54which means in the meanwhile

03:56the U.S. president is looking at how to get the funding in place

04:02so that this untimely government shutdown

04:07does not continue for a very long time.

04:10So again we'll have to wait and see how this really pans out.

04:13It's only 12 a.m.

04:14Tomorrow is when the morning in America

04:19is when the effects of the shutdown

04:21will start being visible and evident.

04:24For now the government is trying to see

04:26what it can do to ensure that the shutdown

04:29does not last long for now

04:30but there is no clarity on how long the shutdown will last.

04:34All right.

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