PANews reported on January 31 that, according to CCTV News, several departments of the US federal government ran out of operating funds in the early hours of January 31 local time. Due to the lack of a new budget, multiple US government departments have again entered a shutdown. This comes less than three months after the end of the longest government shutdown in US history last year, lasting 43 days. Even if the new budget currently being voted on in Congress is successfully passed, some departments will only receive funding for two weeks. In other words, the US government may face its third shutdown in the short term in just half a month.