The first government shutdown in nearly seven years began at midnight after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on extending funding.

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The federal government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader U.S. economy.

The U.S. Senate adjourned Tuesday without reaching a deal on extending federal funding, meaning a federal government shutdown is expected to begin at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

Follow news on the government shutdown after Congress fails to pass a federal budget plan. Trump has threatened mass layoffs in the coming days for federal workers.

The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday after the Senate was unable to pass Democratic and Republican proposals on Tuesday.Both proposals fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass. The Democratic plan which would have restored $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts passed into law this summer on top of a permanent extension of the Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year,

The federal government will shut down just past midnight, as Senate Democrats on Tuesday rejected a Republican bill that would have extended funding for seven weeks but did not resolve an increasingly acrimonious standoff over their demands for health care policy changes.

Ahead of Wednesday's government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday posted a banner in large type on its homepage blaming the shutdown on the "Radical Left," an allegation that an ethics group said was a "blatant violation" of the Hatch Act.

The federal government ran out of money after a Democratic-backed spending bill that would have extended health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act and reversed cuts to Medicaid failed, as well as the GOP-backed stopgap funding measure that would have funded the government for seven weeks also failed.