New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Airports jam, parks shuttered, and 750,000 paychecks on ice while DC points fingers.

WASHINGTON - The federal government entered its second day of a shutdown on Thursday, October 2, 2025, with hundreds of thousands of civilian employees furloughed, airports bracing for strain, and national parks operating on skeleton crews. What began as a tactical standoff over short-term funding has widened into a high-stakes confrontation over the direction of the federal workforce itself, and over who pays the political price for the paralysis.

At the Capitol, the Senate again failed to advance a stopgap measure to restart basic operations, while House leaders stayed out of session, leaving federal agencies to implement continge...