US shutdown looming, Senate rejects budget bill
Published:Monday | September 30, 2013 | 5:42 PM
The US Senate has rejected a budget bill passed by the Republican-led House of Representatives, with just hours left to avert a government shutdown.
The Democratic-led Senate voted 54-46 against the bill, which would fund the government only if President Obama's healthcare law were delayed a year.
If no agreement is reached by midnight the government will close all non-essential federal services.
The shutdown would be the first in the US in 17 years.
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