As the hours go by, they are increasingly closer to another shutdown of their federal services (Government) and all sides, MPs and Senators, the leaderships of the ministries, the services and the officials, are preparing for what will be followed by midnight (at midnight). Federal services.
All ready for a shutdown different from the previous ones
Budgeting battles between Democrats and Republicans are extremely common in the US and usually “close” with interventions by the country’s president and some mutual concessions between the two parties, without shutdown. In the last 45 years, a total of 15 shutdown have been recorded, most of which have lasts up to three days.
The record holds the 2018 Shutdown of the first Trump government, which lasted 35 whole days and cost $ 11 billion in the US economy. This record will probably break the fact that Democrats and Republicans have not managed to agree on any of the 12 critical points for funding, which means that they are abyss.
Another difference of 2025 to 2018 is that this time Trump and the White House budget office, not only are not interested in public services to continue operating without problems, but rub their hands as if a shutdown is not avoided, they will be able to proceed with deep interventions in federal services and federal services. This if that happens will have no previous one.
How the services are affected and what are they
Experience says that a shutdown does not always affect all services and those affected are not affected either in the same way or at the same time (some are directly affected, others not), nor in the same size (some have their own revenue that can use if the interruption is short).
During the Shutdown, border protection services, healthcare services in hospitals, public order services and political flights. On the contrary, the management and maintenance services of national parks and monuments, food control services, inspections of violations of the law on the operation of productive units (eg factory), preschool education, student loan approval services and social services (social services) are directly affected.
Come in mass layoffs
During the termination of federal services, thousands of employees are on holiday or unpaid leave and are later compensated when the funding issue is resolved. The coming shutdown is expected to affect a total of about 2 million employees, including several military and security services who will work wage throughout. Following the latest Shutdown, Congress has decided by law that all federal employees on holiday are fully compensated and compulsory after the shutdown.
This year, the US president announced a few days ago by the White House Management and Budget Office (OMB) invited all the federal services that will be influenced by Shutdown to prepare staff cutting plans to provide for massive and permanent redundancies during the It is compulsory to continue their funding, which are not in line with the president’s priorities or are not included in the funds provided by Trump’s “big beautiful bill” (OBBA).
The Trump government has already reduced the workforce by about 200,000 people, a number that could increase to 300,000 by the end of the year.
How did we get to the deadlock this time and who is to blame
The Republican majority in Congress promoted a bill that envisaged the government’s funding by November 21, but the Democrats refused to vote for it as they were and demanded a series of concessions with the aim of ensuring health care.
Donald Trump convened a meeting of the two parties’ leaders, but there was no progress, with Vice President J. D. Vans saying: “I think we are heading for a shutdown because the Democrats will not do the right thing.”
Republicans passed the bill on the funding of the House of Representatives where they maintain a comfortable majority, but the bill stuck to the Senate where Republicans do not have the 60 seats it needs to pass the bill. Democratic Senators have sought in return to support the plan to extend the subsidies for Affordable Care Act’s health programs, which expire at the end of the year, but also in the reversal of cuts in Medicaid, the program that provides health care to poor and disabled US.
According to a Morning Consult poll, 45% of shutdown voters will blame Republicans, while 32% will blame the Democrats.
