**[U.S. Government Shutdown Becomes Inevitable as Senate Bipartisan Proposals Both Fail]**
BlockBeats reports that on October 1, according to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. federal government will enter a shutdown at midnight Wednesday local time (12 PM Beijing time). This comes after Senate Republicans and Democrats mutually rejected each other's funding proposals. On Tuesday, Trump issued new threats to the Democrats while signaling a willingness to engage in further discussions on Medicaid funding.
A day earlier, congressional leaders from both parties had just attended a meeting at the White House. Due to internal divisions within the Republican Party and pressure from the Democratic Party's left wing, any agreement may only be reached after the shutdown begins at 12:01 AM. This shutdown will push the U.S. into uncharted territory. White House officials have repeatedly expressed their desire to downsize the government, stating that they intend to use this funding cutoff as an opportunity to implement large-scale layoffs of federal employees, rather than merely placing hundreds of thousands of civil servants on temporary leave.
