US shutdown hits as working week begins
Written by Morenike Adebayo on January 22, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of US federal employees will stay home without pay today after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on ending a government shutdown before the start of the working week.
Although leaders of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party and the opposition Democrats said progress had been made in a weekend of talks, they pushed back a vote scheduled for this morning till evening.
The impasse, the first of its kind since 2013, had already cast a huge shadow over the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration as president on Saturday
