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With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk. An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-step funding bill easily passed the US senate ahead of 17 November government shutdown deadline – after Democrats joined Republicans to pass vote in the lower ...
“The richest man in the world says he wants to shut down the government, forcing millions of American workers − including our troops − to go without pay through the holidays,” Rep. Don ...
In the 2018-2019 shutdown, the White House furloughed more than half of the staff in the Executive Office of the President. All agencies have their own contingency plans for an appropriations lapse.
The shutdown ended after one day when Carter threatened to close down the entire US government if Congress did not pass spending bills by 1 October later that year. Economists of the time estimated that the 1-day shutdown of the FTC cost the government around $700,000, the majority of which was back-pay for the furloughed workers.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said a government shutdown heading into the holiday week “would mean service members and air traffic controllers go to work without pay, essential ...
With the U.S. government on the verge of a partial shutdown, a timeline of more than 20 closures since 1976. Timeline of more than 20 U.S. government shutdowns over nearly 50 years Skip to main ...
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) heads in for a vote to keep the federal government operating beyond a midnight deadline and avert a partial shutdown that could disrupt the Christmas holiday ...