Funding for the US government will be cut off at the end of Tuesday unless President Donald Trump’s Republican Party can agree with opposition Democrats on a way forward on a spending bill. That could bring some – but not all – US government services to a temporary halt.

Democrats in the U.S. Congress have rallied around healthcare as their top policy issue in a government shutdown standoff with President Donald Trump's Republicans, hoping a focus on Americans' conce...

A Democratic alternative also failed to advance after receiving no GOP backing.