Russell Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued a memo on Tuesday evening directing government agencies to begin executing their plans "for an orderly shutdown."

Vought wrote to agency leaders with just hours to go until government funding lapses at midnight. The OMB director blamed the impending shutdown on "Democrats' insane policy demands, which include $1 trillion in new spending."

“As such, affected agencies should now execute their plans for an orderly shutdown," Vought wrote.

Many government agencies have released

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