US government shuts down after last-ditch Republican bill fails in Senate

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US government shuts down after last-ditch Republican bill fails in Senate  The US government shut down for the first time in almost seven years as Congress and the White House were unable to reach a funding deal.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/10/01/us-government-shutdown-looms-as-last-ditch-republican-bill-fails-in-senate  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The United States government shut down on Wednesday after lawmakers failed to reach

00:06an agreement on how to fund the government. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats voted down the

00:12last-ditch Republican bill to extend federal funding for seven more weeks. As Republicans

00:18only have 54 seats in the Senate and need 60 votes, Democrats used that as leverage in

00:23an effort to achieve their policy goals regarding health care. Both sides had blamed each other

00:29for the imminent shutdown and refused to budge from their positions. Now that a lapse in funding

00:36has occurred, roughly 750,000 federal workers are expected to be furloughed or potentially

00:42laid off by the Trump administration. Those that stay on the job won't get paid until after the

00:48shutdown ends. The last government shutdown lasted for 35 days from December 2018 until January 2019

00:56during Trump's first term as president. That shutdown had been the result of a dispute over immigration

01:03and border security.

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