A last-gasp meeting at the White House yielded no progress, and the US president has threatened to force mass public sector job cuts.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States government would probably see its first shutdown in more than six years, with funding expiring at midnight and no breakthrough in sight on deadlocked negotiations between Democrats and Republicans.
“We’ll probably have a shutdown,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office just hours before the deadline for a deal.
