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The Senate approved the House-passed short-term government funding bill in a just-after-midnight vote by a vote of 85-11. The legislation will extend government funding until March 14.
The last time there was a holiday shutdown was also the last time there was any government shutdown. From December 2018 through January 2019, the government shutdown for 35 days under the first ...
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 ...
While the government would technically shut down after 11:59 p.m. Friday if a funding bill were not passed, the effects of a shutdown would not be felt in most cases until Monday, the next ...
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 ...
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 MCCARTHY Shutdown Act (short for My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrums, Handle Your Shutdown Act) is a proposed United States federal law which (if passed) would prohibit members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown among other provisions.
House lawmakers voted to avoid a federal government shutdown on Friday. The Senate passed the stopgap funding bill minutes after the midnight deadline passed. The vote caps a week full of drama on ...