Overview

• Federal operations entered a shutdown after Congress failed to pass a funding measure by the Oct. 1 deadline, leading agencies to pause nonessential services.
• In a 2013 Fox News interview, President Trump said a shutdown "falls on the president's lack of leadership," and in 2011 he called such a lapse a "tremendously negative mark" on a president.
• A resurfaced NowThis compilation and widespread social posts have amplified those archival quotes as the shutdown takes hold.
• More recently, Trump has blamed Democrats for the funding lapse at a White House event, and Vice President JD Vance criticized Democratic demands on health care.
• Context from prior standoffs includes the 16-day 2013 shutdown over Affordable Care Act funding and the 2018–2019 lapse, the longest on record.