The U.S. government hurtled toward a Wednesday shutdown as Democrats blocked a Republican stopgap funding package that didn’t address their demands, the latest sign that neither party was likely to fold in the final hours before a federal funding deadline.
With no more votes planned in the Senate before a midnight deadline, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget instructed government agencies to "execute their plans for an orderly shutdown.”
Congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump dug in Tuesday on a confrontation over health care spending, fueling an imminent shutdown risk that appears certain to disrupt national services, furlough federal workers and interrupt the flow of critical data on a murky economy.
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