00:00The 60-vote threshold, having not been received, achieved, the bill upon reconsideration is not passed.
00:08The United States has officially entered a federal government shutdown.
00:12But what does that mean? And how will it affect Americans and the economy?
00:16To simplify it, Congress and President Trump failed to reach an agreement on government funding before the deadline, forcing the shutdown.
00:24This means many federal departments and agencies will halt operations, with hundreds of thousands of non-essential workers placed on unpaid leave.
00:35When you have a government shutdown like this, a lot of those critical operations grind to a halt at great waste of American taxpayers' money.
00:46The dispute in Congress centers on health care funding.
00:49Democrats insist that passing the budget must include permanent reforms to health care programs like Medicaid,
00:56while Republicans reject this demand and call for funding the government now and debating policy later.
01:03They want to give health care to illegal immigrants, which will destroy health care for everybody else in our country.
01:09This marks the first shutdown since the longest in U.S. history seven years ago, which lasted 35 days.
01:17Today, the crisis returns, threatening the U.S. economy, weakening investor confidence, and leaving ordinary Americans as the hardest hit.
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