As midnight struck on 1 October 2025, the United States plunged into its first government shutdown in nearly seven years, triggered by a congressional deadlock over funding and enhanced Obamacare ...

In 2013, then-businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump shared his vision on Fox News about the role a president should play in a shutdown: "You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole ...

Take a look at the editorial cartoons from New York Daily News staffer Bill Bramhall for September and October 2025.