The US government is heading for a shutdown from next weekend, as lawmakers look increasingly unlikely to strike a budget deal in the face of hardline opposition from the right wing of the Republican party.
Legislators have just one week to come up with a spending plan that can make it through both chambers of Congress — no easy feat with Republicans controlling the House of Representatives by a slim majority and Democrats holding the Senate by a similarly razor-thin margin.
If there is no agreement by midnight next Saturday, millions of federal workers will begin to be furloughed, bringing all but “essential” operations of the government to a halt.
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