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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Business
Megha Bahree

With a US government shutdown imminent, what happens to the economy?

The options to avoid a government shutdown are dwindling as the September 30 deadline for budget legislation looms [File: J Scott Applewhite/AP Photo]

It is probably no surprise that Republican infighting scuttled a stopgap measure on Friday in the House of Representatives, designed to avert a government shutdown on September 30.

That is the deadline to approve new budget legislation to fund the United States government over the next fiscal year — which starts on Sunday.

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