Did the government shut down last night? Here’s what you missed while you slept
Published on: Oct. 1, 2025, 4:51 p.m. | Source: The Economic Times
The U.S. federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. EDT on October 1, 2025. This happened because Congress and the President could not agree on a new funding bill to keep the government running. It is the first shutdown since the long one in 2018–2019 and the twenty-first in modern U.S. history.
