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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers have reached a bipartisan deal to temporarily avoid a major shutdown, keeping the government open through at least mid-March and boosting disaster relief efforts after ...
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 ...
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson defended a stopgap measure aimed at funding the federal government through mid-March and averting a partial government shutdown despite complaints from some fellow ...
During the last government shutdown in 2018-19, an estimated 420,000 federal employees worked without pay and another 380,000 were furloughed. But depending on which agencies are affected, these ...
One last bit of pre-election lawmaking is now complete after Congress staved off a shutdown and funded the government for three months. "I want to thank both houses of Congress," President Joe ...
The 16-day shutdown had considerable impact upon the United States: approximately 800,000 federal employees were put on furlough, while an additional 1.3 million had to report to work without any known payment dates during this period, [36] costing the government millions in back pay; [76] major government programmes concerning Native Americans ...
Until the passage of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act in 2011, government shutdowns in the United Kingdom were impossible due to parliamentary convention.A government which could not command a majority in Parliament would be dismissed, either prior to the seating of Parliament when the Queen's Speech was voted down or later, when a vote of no confidence was tabled and passed, when a Finance Act ...
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 ...