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The government shutdown in the United States is set to continue next week, following the failure of a new vote on Friday in the senate, where the division between Democrats and Depublicans parties shows no signs of abating. More details: Jorge Gestoso, teleSUR Correspondent.

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00:00Shutdown in the United States is set to continue next week following the failure of a new vote

00:03on Friday in the Senate where a division between Democrats and Republican parties shows no signs

00:08of abating. Let's hear more details with our correspondent Jorge Gestoso. Thank you. Fifth

00:13day of shutdown and there is no end in sight. We are talking that the senators that have the chance

00:21to put an end to this crisis has left Washington and be back on Monday so nothing before Monday

00:29is going to take place and there is the possibility that the shutdown extends throughout the next week.

00:37The last time there was a shutdown it was in 2018 and 19 seven years ago and took 35 days. We're talking

00:48here that is the first time in history that the government is using the shutdown as an opportunity

00:56to lay off people and eventually to close federal agencies of social programs that are not beneficial

01:06for the Democrats. So this has become most definitely a huge political issue not necessarily a crisis in

01:16terms of budgets. Interesting that some of the consequences are being felt by tens of thousands

01:24of American federal workers and some of them that are having already the fear that even food programs

01:33that could be benefiting them so far could be having an end and then the crisis could get worse.

01:42We get back to you now.

U.S. | Govt. shutdown set to continue over the weekend

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