US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass spending bill | Politics News

The United States government has partially shut down after last-ditch efforts by lawmakers to pass a spending bill failed.

Funding to keep the federal government running expired at 00:01 EDT (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate rejected rival stopgap proposals.

While the US government has partially ceased operations more than a dozen times since 1980, President Donald Trump’s threats to use the funding lapse…