The US government on Thursday was assured of careening into its second shutdown in three weeks beginning at midnight after the Senate adjourned when a conservative lawmaker blocked a vote on a far-reaching budget deal. The upper chamber of Congress closed up shop late Thursday and scheduled a reopening for a new session at 12:01 am Friday, when it will launch a new effort to pass the bill to extend government funding. The Senate was expected to schedule a vote on the measure at 1:00 am and, if it passes, send it to the House of Representatives and then on to President Donald Trump for his signature as early as Friday, but his administration was already preparing for a shutdown. The White Houses Office of Management and Budget is currently preparing for a lapse in appropriations,an OMB official said on condition of anonymity, calling on lawmakers to get the measure to Trumps desk without delay.