On the evening of September 30, local time, Walter, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued a memo,Instructing government agencies to start implementing their "orderly shutdown" plan。
In his letter to agency heads with just hours left before U.S. government funding is due to expire at midnight, Vaught wrote in the memo: "Affected agencies should now implement their orderly shutdown plan.Many government agencies have announced emergency plans to deal with shutdowns that would result in thousands of federal employees being forced to leave and potentially affect the distribution of some government benefits.
In his memo, Watter wrote: “It is not clear for how long the Democratic Party will maintain its unattainable stance.The duration of the shutdown is difficult to predict.。”He continued: "In any case, employees should arrive at their original working hours and carry out orderly lock-down related work. We will issue another memorandum directing that government functions should resume operations after the president signs the bill providing appropriations."
The operating funds of the U.S. federal government should have come from annual budget allocations. Both parties in Congress should usually pass new annual appropriations bills before the start of the new fiscal year on October 1. However, due to fierce fighting between the two parties in recent years, it is often impossible to reach an agreement in time, so Congress tried to pass a temporary appropriations bill to temporarily maintain the federal government's operations. Earlier, the U.S. Senate vetoed bipartisan funding bills, and the United States is on the verge of shutting down the federal government for the first time in nearly seven years. (CCTV reporter Cao Jian)