The United States government entered into budget paralysis on Wednesday, with the consequent closure of the federal administration and without a solution at the view in Congress among the President’s Republicans Donald Trump and the Democratic opposition.
This is the first closure or “Shutdown” from the longest in history almost seven years ago, and for which the work will stop in multiple departments and federal agencies, affecting hundreds of thousands of employees, media such as media point out AFP.
Republicans and Democrats blame each other
Trump blamed the Democrats for stagnation and threatened to punish the party and their voters with the interruption of priorities of the progressive agenda and mass cuts in the public sector, according to the French agency.
Democrat Shutdown! Their $ 1.5T Radical Wishlist – Free Health Care for Illegals & Zero Regard for America – Has Slammed the Brakes on The Us Government.
They are holding the nation hostage to appease their radical Left Base. This is the democrats’ disaster. pic.twitter.com/9jpl0tq5iz
– The White House (@Whitehouse) October 1, 2025
Trump’s threat regarding job cuts adds to anxiety in the federal staff caused by the dismissals initiated on a large scale of the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) of the presidential exassor Elon Musk.
The two main elected Democrats in Congress, the head of the minority in the Chuck Schumer Senate and his counterpart in the Hakeem Jeffries House of Representatives, stated in a joint statement that “Donald Trump and the Republicans closed the state services because they do not want to protect the medical care of the US people.”
“Democrats are willing to find a bipartisan path to reopen state services in a way that reduces costs (health) and responds to the crisis generated by Republicans,” they wrote.
Vice President JD Vance, meanwhile, also blamed the Democrats in an interview with Fox News This Wednesday morning, when he made his first public statements about it. “The government is not taken hostage because you want to negotiate on the costs of medical care. Let’s make that negotiation, but let’s do it in the context of reopening the government and ensuring that these essential services are provided to the US people,” Vance said.
Republicans had proposed to extend current financing until the end of November, while a longer -term expense plan was negotiated. But, according to your own AFPDemocrats wanted to restore hundreds of billions of dollars in medical care expenses, especially in the health insurance program called Obamacare for low -income households.
750,000 federal officials in partial unemployment
Despite the republican majority in the Senate, Trump’s party does not control the necessary votes to approve budgetary laws. These require 60 votes, seven more than those who have Republicans.
After the failure of a last vote on Tuesday night in the Senate, the director of the Budget Office in the White House, Russell Vought, ordered in a letter to federal administrations “launching their plans for an orderly closure.”
According to the Congress Budget Office (CBO), 750,000 federal officials could be found this time in partial unemployment, with a loss of income equivalent to 400 million dollars. Air traffic could be affected, while the payment of some social aid would be strongly disturbed.
The national parks will be deprived of their park rangers, in a period of the year in which millions of tourists travel in the United States to enjoy the show of the change of colors of the tree leaves due to the arrival of the boreal fall.
According to the calculations of the analysts of the Nationwide insurance company, each closing week could reduce the growth of the United States GDP by 0.2 percentage points.
14 interruptions since 1981
According to CNNsince 1981 there have been 14 interruptions in federal financing. The majority occurred with a divided government, when the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate were not controlled by the same party.
The last closure, occurred in December 2018 until the end of January 2019, during Trump’s first mandate, lasted 35 days. At that time, the CBO estimated that it had reduced the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 11 billion dollars.
These paralysis due to lack of budget are very unpopular in the United States, and both Democrats and Republicans try to avoid them, sometimes until the last moment. Even more so when the legislative elections of mid mandate, in November 2026, most of the French agency is at stake.
