US President Donald Trump has announced that the US government shutdown will continue because Republicans are not ready to pay "one and a half trillion dollars" to illegal immigrants.
We're not going to do that, so the government shutdown continues," Trump was quoted as saying by the White House press service. The new US fiscal year began on October 1, but Congress failed to approve a budget, leaving the government unable to function.
A government shutdown in the United States involves the shutdown of some government agencies directly funded by Congress due to the lack of a budget for the next fiscal year.
