The government has officially shut down, meaning that it has essentially run out of money. After both Republican and Democratic-backed bills that could have potentially funded the government to avoid a shutdown failed in the Senate, the country shut down at midnight. Now, many experts, like Claudia Grisales, NPR’s congressional correspondent, are calling this shutdown a “culmination of bitter, extreme partisan divide” in the nation’s capital.
Leading up to the shutdown, government websites like the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have displayed bold partisan messages at the top of their site, which read: Read more at www.thegrio.com.
