Live updates: Senate votes on last-ditch effort to avert US government shutdown

Two terms, two shutdowns?published at 20:54 BST

20:54 BST

We’re waiting to see if a government shutdown will go ahead. For US President Donald Trump, this is a familiar story.

He was the leader during the last shutdown in 2018 – the longest in US history.

Trump faced a 35-day shutdown, when Democrats resisted Trump’s demand for $5.7bn (£4.4bn) for his Mexico border wall.

Nine of 15 federal departments, including State, Homeland Security, Transportation, Agriculture and Justice began partially shutting down after funding for them lapsed.

It saw huge affects on the aviation industry, as air traffic controllers faced long shifts and low numbers. Meanwhile, the FBI faced running out of resources. as well as on the FBI which faces running out resources. There were food shortages for the Coast guard, and other food safety fears. Some 800,000 civil servants missed their paydays.

It stopped when Trump backed down and ended the stalemate. But that’s not how he described it. He wrote at the time it was not a “concession”, but instead “taking care of the millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the shutdown”.

The US economy lost $3bn (£2.2bn) from the closure of federal agencies, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said at the time.