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The White House says federal agencies began notifying their employees of potential furloughs

today in the event that the government shuts down.

NPR's Deepa Shivram reports Congress has until midnight to pass a funding deal.

Congress had reached a bipartisan deal to fund the government earlier this week, but then

President-elect Donald Trump and his advisors weighed in and said they didn't approve of it.

Yesterday, another proposal was put forward,

but House Republicans were not able to pass that. Now, as some government employees are being

informed that they would have to go without pay in the case that the government does shut down,

the White House is blaming Republicans. Here's press secretary, Corinjean Pierre.

Republicans blew up this deal. They did, and they need to

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