Watch stay as vice chairman JD Vance joins press secretary Karoline Leavitt for a information convention on the White House.
It comes after the US authorities shut down for the primary time in virtually seven years after last-ditch Senate votes on funding plans fell brief.
Hundreds of hundreds of federal employees deemed not important for safeguarding individuals or property – reminiscent of regulation enforcement personnel – might be furloughed or laid off after the shutdown started at midnight (5am UK time).
Critical providers, together with social safety funds and the postal service, will maintain working however could endure from employee shortages, whereas nationwide parks and museums might be among the many sectors that shut utterly.
Read extra concerning the shutdown, and what it means for Americans, on the Sky News web site: https://news.sky.com/story/us-government-on-brink-of-shutdown-13441990
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