Watch live as House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate majority leader John Thune as well as House and Senate Leadership hold a news conference after the US government shut down for the first time in almost seven years.
Donald Trump had threatened to lay off "a lot of people" as a result of the shutdown, which comes after Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on a funding package.
Read more about the shutdown on the Sky News: https://news.sky.com/story/us-government-on-brink-of-shutdown-13441990
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