Monthlong government shutdown in photos: disruptions, delays and divisions
FILE - The Capitol is seen at nightfall on day 22 of a government shutdown in Washington, Oct. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Original Publication Date: November 1, 2025 10:00AM
Publication Updated: November 1, 2025 10:40AM
With no endgame in sight, the U.S. government shutdown is expected to roll on for the unforeseeable future, injecting more uncertainty into an already precarious economy.
Democrats seek an extension of expiring tax credits that have helped millions of people afford health insurance, while Republicans say they won’t negotiate until the government is reopened.
Americans, meanwhile, are divided on who’s to blame.
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This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
FILE – Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves after holding a news conference on the 6th day of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 6, 2025. Johnson kept the House out of session for the second week in a row during the shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)FILE – House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, of N.Y., walks to a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)FILE – National Park Service law enforcement ranger Greg Freeman opens a locked gate closing vehicle access to the Shark Valley section of Florida’s Everglades National Park, as he drives into the park, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)FILE – Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the Senate GOP whip, left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., arrive for a news conference with top Republicans on the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)FILE – People look through an opening in a fence to get a glance at the Statue of Liberty in New York, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)FILE – Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders, from left, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., blame the government shutdown on Democrats during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)FILE – A visitor walks at the Lincoln Memorial at sunrise in Washington, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)FILE – TSA agent Sashene McLean, holding her one-year-old daughter, comes from work to collect a donation of produce, meat and yogurt at a food distribution center organized to assist federal employees missing paychecks during the government shutdown in Dania Beach, Fla., Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)FILE – Travelers sit together and wait at the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)FILE – Tammy Norton, a furloughed federal employee of 16 years who currently works for the Internal Revenue Service, reacts with emotion as she talks about running through her limited savings to support her family during the government shutdown, at a food distribution center for federal employees impacted by the government shutdown, Oct. 28, 2025, in Dania Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)FILE – Air Traffic Controllers stand outside distributing leaflets explaining how the federal government shutdown is impacting air travel at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich., Oct. 28, 2025,. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)FILE – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., attends a news conference about the government shutdown on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)FILE – Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025, as the U.S. government is on the brink of the first federal government shutdown in almost seven years.. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)FILE – Volunteer Betty McNeely, right, helps a man bag food items at Project Feed, an emergency food pantry in Portland, Maine, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)FILE – Volunteers prepare emergency food packages at the Tarrant Area Food Bank in Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)FILE – Volunteer Joel Hernandez helps load a vehicle during a food distribution targeting federal employee households affected by the federal shutdown as well as SNAP recipients in San Antonio., Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)FILE – A food bank is set up at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nv., Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Rio Yamat, File)FILE – House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., disputes a reporter’s question as he enters his office on day 24 of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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