The US government shut down at midnight on October 1, 2025 (00:01 EDT Wednesday), after Congress failed to reach an agreement on a federal spending bill. This was the first government shutdown in nearly seven years, triggered by a partisan impasse between President Donald Trump's Republican Party and Democrats over budget and healthcare funding disputes.
The last previous shutdown before this was the longest in US history, lasting 35 days from December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019, mainly caused by disagreements over border wall funding.
