Here's how a government shutdown could affect Michigan

It's beginning to look a lot like shutdown. For the third time this year under President Donald Trump, it appears the federal government could be heading toward a shutdown, with the current spending arrangements for nine departments and other agencies set to lapse Saturday morning. With conservatives in the U.S. House and Trump balking at a stopgap spending bill that doesn't include $5 billion Trump is demanding for a wall along the southern border, and Democrats refusing to support that funding, it wasn't clear that a compromise could be reached before midnight Friday to avoid the shutdown. "This is no way to run a government," said U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield, whose district includes many of those employed by the federal government in downtown Detroit. "Every single one of our federal workers and the services they provide are valuable and worth fighting for."