2025 United States federal government shutdown

On October 1, 2025, the federal government of the United States began a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. EDT because congress was unable to pass a funding bill for the 2026 fiscal year. The shutdown happened because Democrats and Republicans did not agree over federal spending levels, foreign aid rescissions, and health insurance subsidies.

The shutdown caused the furlough of roughly 900,000 federal employees and left another 2 million working without pay. While essential services such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the Transportation Security Administration continued, many agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the WIC program stopped working.

The shutdown is the 11th government shutdown that resulted in federal employees being furloughed, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and the third shutdown during a Trump presidency, after the January 2018 shutdown and 2018–2019 shutdown.

The shutdown ended on November 12, 2025.

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