The U.S. government has officially entered a shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a stopgap funding bill aimed at temporarily extending the federal budget, marking the country’s first shutdown in nearly seven years.

With the fiscal year ending at midnight on Tuesday without legislation to ensure continued funding for federal agencies, Washington woke up Wednesday to a new political crisis threatening to paralyze government operations.

According to a memo from the Congressional Budget Office prior to the shutdown, an estimated 750,000 federal employees could be furloughed daily, at a cost of nearly $400 million per day.

Although the military is required to continue operating during the shutdown, service members will not receive their pay until the government reopens.

Budget standoffs are common in U.S. politics, but this particular funding battle carries added tension, as President Donald Trump has spent the past nine months significantly scaling back the size of the federal