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The 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown, from December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title 2018 United States federal government shutdown .
Thursday, February 8: President Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast. [104] Friday, February 9: Federal funding lapsed for the second time in 2018 after Republican Senator Rand Paul delayed the vote on a temporary appropriations bill by objecting to measures requiring unanimous consent to expedite the parliamentary process. [105] [106]
The other bill is a three-week continuing resolution to fund 25% of the government through February 8. [65] On January 22, Senator Mark Warner introduced a bill to keep the federal government running in the event of future shutdown events. The bill is called the "Stop Shutdowns Transferring Unnecessary Pain and Inflicting Damage in the Coming ...
In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or ...
As of January 19, 2018, the Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 was under consideration to extend funding through February 16, 2018. The bill passed the House on January 18, but a cloture vote in the Senate failed 50–49, [ 14 ] with 60 votes required to end a Democratic-led filibuster , [ 15 ] at around 10:45 pm EST, shortly ...
A comprehensive budget deal is later passed by Congress in the early hours of the morning, and a Continuing Resolution is signed into law by President Trump that keeps the government open until March 23, 2018. (Federal News Radio) Timeline of the Trump presidency, 2018 Q1
The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2018, which ran from October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018, was named America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again. It was the first budget proposed by newly elected president Donald Trump , submitted to the 115th Congress on March 16, 2017.
January 20 – Senate Democrats block a bill that would have kept the government running until mid-February and the government shutdown of January 2018 begins. [21] January 22 Amazon opens the first Amazon Go store to the public, the first completely cashier-less grocery store, located in Seattle. [22] [23] [24]