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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
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 ...
During Trump’s first term, the government shut down three times, including a 35-day closure spanning the end of 2018 into early 2019 that remains the longest in U.S. history. –Michael Collin s
“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 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 ...
At a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 20, 2020, Trump said he had instructed his administration to slow down coronavirus testing in order to keep the number of confirmed cases down. [135] This claim was contradicted in sworn testimony by the federal health officials in charge of coronavirus response. [ 136 ]
Here's how the US got to the brink of yet another funding lapse and what it means for Americans - and Trump.
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 ...