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The U.S. government is officially shut down after lawmakers failed to negotiate a spending agreement.

Opposition is a simple one. Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save health care.

This country, no country can afford to pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country,

and that's what they're insisting. And obviously, I have an obligation to not accept that.

Plus, a federal judge rules the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by targeting

students in pro-Palestinian campus protests. And the U.S. pulls the plug on a trade program that helped keep impoverished Haiti

afloat. It's Wednesday, October 1st. I'm Caitlin McCabe for the Wall Street Journal,

and here's the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your

world today. Washington, D.C. has gone dark, at least for some non-essential government agencies.

The federal government shut down for the first time in nearly seven years just past midnight

this morning after lawmakers couldn't reach a deal to keep the government funded.

In the past few days, the White House of Democrats made no real effort to reach a compromise.

So here we are.

Funding has lapsed.

Many government programs are going to cease.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will likely be put on furlough, unpaid leave, and

an uncertain economic and political moment has arrived.

That's the journal's Washington coverageverage Chief Damien Palletta.

He says the shutdown feels different than previous ones.

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