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The federal government is inching closer to a shutdown with the White House and Republicans in Congress not budging after talks with Democrats on Monday with funding set to run out at midnight.

Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress and the White House, still need Democratic support in the Senate to keep the government open. GOP leadership has proposed a “clean” stopgap to allow more time for negotiations on next year’s spending levels, which Democrats have rejected with demands to restore funding for health care subsidies.

“It’s now in the president’s hands,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday after a meeting at the White House. “He can avoid the shutdown if he gets the Republican leaders to go along with what we want.”

Without a deal by midnight, the government will shut down for the first time in seven years, interrupting services and bringing temporary layoffs to hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

The two sides are blaming each other for the brinksmanship over a shutdown, betting voters will blame the opposing party.

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