The accusations fly on whether the closure of the Republicans or the Democrats “

The United States government closed at midnight on Wednesday, beginning the financing stoppages that are expected to extend through federal agencies, interrupting many government services and perhaps tens of thousands without work.

The closure occurred in the midst of a bitter dead point among the Democrats of Congress and the Republicans, who are backed by President Donald Trump, about whether an extension of federal funds should include medical care provisions.

The Senate on Tuesday night rejected in a 55-45 vote a 7-week Stopgap financing measure backed by Republicans that would have allowed the government to continue operations. That was his second attempt at the night, after voting for a bill backed by the Democrats. In a matter of hours, the closure had begun.

As the government closed, the rhetoric increased from both sides of the hall, with each part and its allies pointing to guilt to its counterparts, each stating that the opposite part “possesses” the closure.

“Democrats have officially voted to close the government,” said the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican, on social networks, after the Senate’s vote.

The president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, said that the closure was equivalent to “the clearest sign that Republicans are inept, incompetent and lack respect for the US people.”

The Democrats hung up together to deny the necessary votes to keep the government financed, since they continue to say that any financing solution must include provisions related to medical care. Several Democrats crossed the lines of the party and voted in favor of the Clean Financing Bill.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said after the vote and before the closing that the Democrats wanted to “sit and negotiate, but the Republicans cannot do so in their partisan way, where they simply say it is our way or the road.”

“It is the Republicans who will lead us directly to a closing tonight, and midnight, the American people will blame them for stopping the federal government,” he added.

Former vice president Kamala Harris in publication on social networks He said: “Republicans are in charge of the White House, the Chamber and the Senate. This is its closure.”

Meanwhile, the president of the Republican National Committee, Joe Gruters, told the Democrats, saying that they were “only responsible” for closing.

“Democrats have critical funds for our veterans, elderly, forces of the order and working families because they want to approve a list of wishes of extreme left that costs more than $ 1 billion,” he said in a statement.

A spokesman for the committee, Sonali Patel, echoed Gruters, saying that the domcrats in the Senate “yielded to the extreme left, played partisan politics and forced this closure.”

“They possess it,” Patel said.

Leader of the Senate John Thune Said at a press conference after the failed votes on Tuesday that the Republicans are now in search of some additional Democrats to support their draft Clean Financing Law already short term after three Democrats deserted during tonight’s vote.

The sens. John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto and Angus King, an independent who is hunted with the Democrats, had stolen their party leader and voted with the Republicans in a short -term financing bill aimed at maintaining the open government for 7 more weeks.

Thune He said he intends to take that bill forward to vote tomorrow. And he believes that more Democrats could be willing to support him.

“There are others out there, I think they don’t want Thune saying.

He added: “So we will see. I think there was evidence tonight that there was some movement there and will allow our Democratic colleagues to have additional opportunities to vote whether the government is open or not, or in the case of tomorrow now probably to open it.”

Justin Gómez and Lauren Peller of Abc News contributed to this report.