US government funding will cut off at midnight unless the Republican Party can agree with Democrats on a way forward on a spending bill.
President Donald Trump has threatened mass "irreversible" firings of federal workers if a shutdown happens.
Budget confrontations are common, but this spending fight is especially tense because Trump has spent the last nine months drastically cutting the size of the federal government.
Generally, in a shutdown, essential workers continue as normal – some without pay – but government employees deemed non-essential are temporarily put on unpaid leave.
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