Funding Lapses, Services Halted: U.S. Government Shuts Down as Health-care Fight Collapses in Congress
By Nick Ravenshade — October 1, 2025
WASHINGTON — The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass stopgap funding to carry agencies into fiscal year 2026, plunging Washington into an immediate and wide-ranging disruption of public services, furloughs for hundreds of thousands of