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White House Office of Management and the Budget Director Russ Vought on Sept. 30 ordered federal officials to begin executing “their plans for an orderly shutdown.”
“Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of [a government funding extension] in the Senate due to Democrats’ insane policy demands, which include $1 trillion in new spending,” Vought said in the Tuesday evening memo to executive branch administrators.
It comes after the Senate, in a 55–45 vote, rejected Republicans’ House-passed “clean” government funding extension, which means it didn’t include any new policies or funding….
Government Heads Toward Shutdown After Funding Patch Fails in Senate
