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The United States federal government shutdown from midnight EST on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 (35 days) was the longest government shutdown in US history [1] [2] and the second [a] and final federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the first presidency of Donald Trump.
On the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 [77] was released, with Congress expecting to approve it within two days. [78] On March 23, 2018, the House passed the legislation in a 256–167 vote and the Senate with 65–32. [79] President Trump signed it into law on the same day. [80]
The shutdown of December 2018–January 2019 was the second to occur during the presidential term of Donald Trump, and was due to a disagreement over negotiations for Trump's wall along the Mexico–United States border. Trump sought to have the appropriation bill for 2019 include $5.7 billion in funding toward construction of the wall.
The U.S. Senate adjourned just after 8 p.m. on Friday night, thereby ensuring a partial government shutdown.
Executive Order 13767, titled Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements, was issued by United States President Donald Trump on January 25, 2017. [1] [2] The order directs a wall to be built along the Mexico–United States border. [3]
President Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony Monday featured the largest, most complex security footprint of any inauguration in U.S. history.. The nation's capital was transformed seemingly ...
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 .
Nonetheless, President Donald Trump over the weekend criticized it as being “run by a bunch of radical lunatics,” and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who heads his government efficiency initiative ...