What were the two main reasons the government shut down

 A budget agreement would likely go for two years, lessening the chance for a government shutdown through 2019. Defense spending. It's not only Democrats who are fed up with short-term spending bills and kicking the proverbial can down the road. Republican defense hawks in the House and Senate ...A government shutdown is the closure of nonessential offices of the government-due to lack of approval on the federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year. ... The-shutdown stays in effect until a compromise is reached and a budget bill is passed. they didn't things they shouldn't have