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A government shutdown will begin at midnight on Friday if lawmakers don't act before the deadline. Thousands of federal employees would be furloughed, and other services would be endangered.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Some government services American rely upon will be unaffected by a shutdown while others would become more difficult to access or suspended altogether. The effect on the economy may depend on how ...
The 35-day partial shutdown impacted an estimated 800,000 government workers, resulted in an $11 billion loss in economic output, and chipped off 0.2% of the U.S.’s annual growth forecasts ...
In April 2021, former Polynesian Panther members are among those petitioning the New Zealand government for an official apology for the dawn raids that took place in the mid‑1970s. [ 26 ] On 15 August 2021, the public broadcaster TVNZ released a television series about the Polynesian Panthers called The Panthers on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ On Demand .
(The Center Square) – A government funding stopgap is on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk after the Senate voted 85-11 to pass a 118-page bill to keep the federal government open until ...