Civil service workers go without pay after Congress fails to agree budget
The US Capitol Building
ALMOST two million US civil servants went without pay today after Congress failed to agree a budget.
However, just as the Star went to press last night, it appeared that the Senate had passed a short-term funding Bill to cover spending until February 8, after extracting a promise from Republican leaders to address the fate of people covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) scheme.
Democrats want the Obama-era scheme, which protects almost 700,000 people brought to the US illegally as children from deportation, to be extended.
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