2025 United States federal government shutdown
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From October 1, 2025 to November 12, 2025, the federal government of the United States was in a shutdown as Congress failed to pass appropriations legislation for the 2026 fiscal year. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives advanced a continuing resolution, but Senate Democrats repeatedly blocked it. The legislation failed 14 times before a revised appropriations bill was passed on November 10. The House of Representatives passed the Senate's revised bill on November 12th, which President Donald Trump promptly signed that day. The shutdown was the 11th government shutdown that resulted in federal employees being furloughed and the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, lasting 43 days. Democrats in the Senate opposed the Republican appropriations bill because it did not include an extension of expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies that were scheduled to expire in November 2025. The bipartisan agreement that ended the shutdown put the matter up to a vote in December. The shutdown resulted in the furlough of roughly 900,000 federal employees and kept another two million working without pay. Some government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid continued to operate through the shutdown, as did certain agencies such as the Department of Defense and the Transportation Security Administration. Other agencies' operations were partially or fully suspended, including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.