(Original title: The U.S. government officially "closes" Trump: "There are many benefits")

As the U.S. Senate on September 30 vetoed the two-party allocation bill, the federal government has closed again for seven years, hundreds of thousands of federal employees had to face compulsory leave or dismissal, and the services of many federal departments have also "stopped".

On the evening of 30 local time, White House Administration and Budget Office (OMB) director Walter Watts issued a memorandum instructing government agencies to begin implementing their plans for an ¡°orderly shutdown.¡±Untouched departments include law enforcement agencies such as the military, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ministry of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Postal Office.

The White House of the United States (data map)

Republicans in the Senate will vote on the provisional funding bill on October 1.

Republicans in the Senate have decided to hold a procedural vote on the Republican provisional funding bill and the Democratic proposal on October 1st, depending on the scheduled voting schedule, the Senate may hold a session until October 3 or 4 (apart from October 2), and the House of Representatives will not hold a meeting this week.

Thun, the Republican leader of the Senate, hopes that five more Democratic senators will support the Republican proposal on October 1st, but he denies amending the contents of the bill to win more Democratic votes.

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 temporarily maintain the federal government through temporary appropriations bills. In the past year, the U.S. federal government has faced multiple "shutdown" crises. In December 2024 and March 2025, Congress passed short-term spending bills hours before federal government funds were exhausted.

Republicans in the Senate will vote on the provisional allocation bill on October 1 (data map)

What impact will the "shutdown" of the US federal government have?

In the United States, although a government shutdown is nothing new, the risk of shutdown this year is different from previous years, and the behind-the-scenes logic is more complex.

Once the U.S. federal government "shuts down", about 800,000 federal employees will be forced to take unpaid vacation, and contractor bills will not be paid in time.

For low-income families, the blow will come sooner.

Transportation, travel, medical care, public health, etc. will all be affected.

The wider economic costs should not be overlooked.

The U.S. government has been ¡°closed¡± 20 times in half a century, the last time it was during Trump¡¯s term.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. federal government has been ¡°stopping¡± twenty times because of the two-party policy disagreements that led to the disruption of funds. The last and longest ¡°stop¡± occurred in late 2018 to early 2019, during Trump¡¯s first term, the Democratic Party opposed Trump¡¯s proposed U.S. Mexican Border Wall program, and the two parties fought on immigration issues, leading to the government shutdown for 35 days. At the time, about a quarter of federal government agencies ¡°stop¡± for five weeks, and reached more than 800,000 government employees, with economic losses estimated at more than $10 billion.

In terms of public opinion in the United States, several polls show that most Americans see the government's "shutdown" as an irresponsible political act, using power stagnation to manipulate public institutions.

TRUMP: We don¡¯t want to ¡°close.¡± But the US government¡¯s ¡°closure¡± could bring ¡°many benefits.¡±

According to media reports such as Bloomberg and USA Today, US President Trump said on Tuesday (September 30th) local time that the government's "shutdown" may bring "many benefits", which caused controversy among netizens.

"The last thing we want to do is to shut down the (government). But a shutdown can also bring many benefits. We can get rid of a lot of things that we don't want, and those things are Democratic things." Trump responded to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House that day. In addition, he accused Democrats of "not learning lessons" and therefore he "had no choice."

Trump claims that the government's "shutdown" may bring "many benefits" (data map)

In the video commentary area on the social platform X, there are netizens who agree with Trump¡¯s viewpoint; but there are netizens who disagree, saying it is ¡°crazy.¡±

The U.S. Senate failed to pass a temporary allocation bill on the evening of September 30, meaning that the federal government is likely to start "stop" from midnight a few hours after local time, which would be the first "stop" of the federal government in seven years earlier that day, Republicans and Democrats did not negotiate but continued to blame each other, saying the other side forced the government to "stop".

According to AP, the federal agencies have begun to issue emergency plans in response to a possible ¡°shutdown¡±, detailing which offices will continue to operate and which employees will be forced to leave. The White House said the government¡¯s ¡°stop-up¡± could lead to massive governmental cuts. The Trump administration has previously threatened to permanently dismiss those ¡°unnecessary¡± federal employees who have not received funding instead of giving them temporary leave. The White House Administration and Budget Office has asked the agencies to revise their emergency plans, clearly listing those who will be dismissed during the ¡°stop-up¡±.

It is understood that the last and longest "stop" of the U.S. federal government occurred at the end of 2018 to the beginning of 2019, during Trump's first term, the Democrats opposed Trump's proposed border wall project appropriations, and the two parties fought on immigration issues, leading to the government shutdown for 35 days.