The federal government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday - halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration in a striking display of Washington dysfunction.

Senate Republicans fell far short of passing a procedural motion that would have kept the federal government funded, causing the fourth government shutdown in a quarter century. The final vote was 50-49.

The National Security Agency destroyed surveillance data it pledged to preserve in connection with pending lawsuits and apparently never took some of the steps it told a federal court it had taken to make sure the information wasn’t destroyed, according to recent court filings.

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UPDATE 12:00 AM SATURDAY--The government has shut down as of now. It remains unclear if any deal will keep this short, or if the shutdown will last into Saturday and the weekend; Senators are still on the floor of the U.S. Senate negotiating past this deadline.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that the Democrats’ votes to shut down the government are because they cannot shut down Trump’s massively successful economy:

In Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight, Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour will take your calls and discuss the shutdown drama on Capitol Hill, as Senate Democrats hold government funding hostage in their pursuit of amnesty legislation.

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Washington, D.C., is on edge this Friday as Senate Democrats barrel the United States of America toward a government shutdown at midnight.

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