It's unclear how long the shutdown will last, with the parties nowhere near an agreement. Democrats want health care money, while Republicans insist they won't be held "hostage.”

The U.S. government officially shut down after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement on how to extend federal funding.

Donald Trump’s Republican Party controls both chambers of Congress, but it needs Democratic support to pass a bill in the Senate, where 60 votes are required. And the two parties failed to craft a bipartisan bill, with the Senate rejecting both a GOP proposal and a Democratic proposal just hours before the shutdown deadline.

It’s the first government shutdown since 2018, in Trump’s first term, which was the longest ever at 34 days, lasting into early 2019. There is no clear path to a resolution, with the two sides fundamentally at odds over how to resolve the impasse.

  • Binturong@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The Republicans never had any intention of negotiating a goddamn thing. Following their chosen leader’s mentality ‘negotiation’ is a bad faith process where you intimidate or coerce your opponent into concessions until they have nothing to offer and no power to leverage, at which point you absorb or destroy them. All of their actions and rhetoric reinforce this interpretation, you can attempt to change my mind on this, but I’m just as certain you’ll expose your own biases and ignorance in the process, so by all means, try me.