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Government shutdown: ... Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Sunday hit the news circuit to tout a plan backed by Trump to keep federal agencies running at their current funding levels through ...
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 ...
The agreement avoids the shutdown that was slated to begin at midnight on Sept. 30, ensuring Americans retain access to crucial government services and sidestepping an embarrassing political ...
"Right now, the Democrats are, it looks like, trying to set up a government shut down," he said. "We can't allow that to happen and we won't."
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 ...
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 ...
“House Republicans will now own any harm that is visited upon the American people from a government shutdown or worse,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told reporters.
The longest shutdown was also the most recent: The government shut down for 34 full days from Dec. 21, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019. During that shutdown, national parks remained open, but trash started ...