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What Veterans Affairs programs would continue in a shutdown? The VA completed an analysis early this year of how previous government shutdowns impacted the department, finding that some benefits ...
During Trump’s first term, the government shut down three times, including a 35-day closure spanning the end of 2018 into early 2019 that remains the longest in U.S. history. –Michael Collin s
Medicare and Veterans Affairs benefits also continue to be distributed during a shutdown. The federal government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. ET Saturday if Congress does not pass a bill to ...
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 VA predicted that if the shutdown lasted for more than two or three weeks, the VA might not be able to pay benefits for November. The VA continued to work on disability claims that were filed before the shutdown, but veterans with delays. [clarification needed] New disability claims were not processed during the shutdown and all appeals of ...
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 ...
If the government shuts down, millions of federal employees will not be paid, non-essential agencies will stop service, and citizens may experience delays in services such as air travel, social ...
A government shutdown would have stalled paychecks for US military service members, forced federal agencies to close, furloughed workers just before Christmas, and threatened critical services and ...