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The US Senate today approved a budget deal including a stopgap government funding bill. The Senate was passed the bill by a vote of 71-28 and sent it to the House of Representatives again for approval. However, it was too late to prevent a federal shutdown that was already underway .
The shutdown, which technically started at midnight, was the second this year. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management advised millions of federal employees shortly after midnight to check with their agencies about whether they should report to work today.
Earlier,Republican senator,Rand Paul of Kentucky objected to the Senate proceeding to vote on a two-year budget deal that would boost military and domestic spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, saying it would explode America’s rising federal deficit and add to the nation’s more than 20 trillion dollar national debt.