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Government partially shut down in fight over Trump’s border wall

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Sat, Dec 22nd, 2018

By James Oliphant, Ginger Gibson and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government was partially shut down early on Saturday in a fierce dispute over President Donald Trump‘s demands that Congress assign $5 billion for a wall along the border with Mexico. After failing to strike a budget deal on Friday, congressional leaders and…

Factbox: What happens in a U.S. government shutdown?

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Sat, Jan 20th, 2018

President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress failed to meet a midnight Friday deadline to pass a short-term bill to extend federal funding, forcing some government facilities to shutdown.