Follow news on the government shutdown after Congress fails to pass a federal budget plan. Trump has threatened mass layoffs in the coming days for federal workers.

The last federal shutdown ran for 35 days, from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019, making it the longest closure in U.S. history. At the time, the Senate had failed to pass a funding bill that included $5.7 billion requested by President Donald Trump to help construct the U.S. southern border wall.

A bitter deadlock in Congress over federal spending affects services across the government as many workers are furloughed or working without pay. President Trump has threatened layoffs if Democrats continue fighting.

Trump attempted to fire Cook in August over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte—who’s made similar accusations against a number of the president’s enemies. But the move was initially blocked by a federal judge, who said the claim had nothing to do with Cook’s actual job.

The DOI's plan specifies that public access will be suspended if it begins to pose health, safety, or resource protection issues. During a previous government shutdown during President Trump's first term, NBC News notes, Joshua Tree National Park was forced to close after unsupervised visitors caused damage to the park and its facilities.

The United States federal government shut down in the early morning of Oct. 1 after Congress failed to pass funding for federal programs and services.

A day earlier, CBS’s Weijia Jiang had asked the president why he’d said government employees would have to be let go during a shutdown, given the massive reductions to the federal workforce enacted earlier in the year by his so-called “Departments of Government Efficiency.”

The U.S. government could shutdown starting Oct. 1 when funding runs out. With a potential shutdown on the horizon, here's what you need to know.

President Donald Trump got a significant amount of blame during the last partial government shutdown, which took place toward the end of his first term after he forced a shutdown over border wall funding — but with Democrats embracing the shutdown fight this time,