The US government has entered a partial shutdown as a funding deadline passed without Congress approving a 2026 budget, but disruption is expected to be limited with the House of Representatives set to move early next week to ratify a Senate-backed deal.
The funding lapse followed a breakdown in negotiations driven by Democratic anger over the killing of two protesters in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents, which derailed talks over new money for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The US Senate previously passed the spending package by a bipartisan vote of 71 to 29.
But the House of Representatives is out of town and was not expected to take…