A year on, Trump leads divided US govt into closure
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with former Republican US Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole during Dole’s Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for on Capitol Hill January 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. PHOTO | AFP
What you need to know:
From midnight Friday, in the absence of an agreed spending plan, federal services began to come to a halt or be scaled back, even as lawmakers continued to argue on the floor of the Senate
