2025 United States federal government shutdown - Wikipedia
The Wikipedia article recounts the 2025 US federal government shutdown, which ran 43 days from October 1 to November 12, 2025 — the longest full shutdown in US history, furloughing roughly 900,000 federal employees — after Senate Democrats repeatedly blocked Republican funding bills over expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies until a bipartisan Senate deal ended it. It covers the fallout, from halved SNAP benefits, canceled flights, and national park vandalism to mass layoffs, the partisan blaming of Democrats on government websites, and polls consistently putting more blame on Trump and Republicans.
