The US Senate failed to pass an appropriations bill, and a record-breaking federal government shutdown is imminent.

 according to Xinhua News Agency, the U.S. Senate once again failed to pass a temporary federal government funding bill on the 4th. This means that the current round of federal government "shutdown" that began on October 1st is about to break the historical record of the 35-day "shutdown" from the end of 2018 to the beginning of 2019, becoming the longest government "shutdown" in U.S. history.