The U.S. government is officially in shutdown mode, with thousands of federal workers on furlough, after Republicans and Democrats in Washington failed to come to an agreement over the contents of a temporary funding bill designed to keep the government open.

The shutdown officially began from midnight on Friday the 19th of January, after Democrats (including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer - pictured) voted down a bill that would have allowed the government to keep funding federal departments, in order to try and force Republicans to make concessions over immigration reform and protect a group known as the 'Dreamers' (illegal immigrants brought to America as children) from deportation.

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