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On previous national days of mourning, such as after the deaths of former Presidents George H.W. Bush in 2018 and Gerald Ford in 2006, federal offices and stock markets were closed in the U.S.
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
“All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Tuesday, December 24, 2024, the day before Christmas Day,” the ...
Christmas Eve is not a designated federal holiday. Still, U.S. presidents, including Joe Biden and Donald Trump, have used the holiday to grant a day off to the country's more than 2 million ...
Units of the National Park System closed during the 2013 federal government shutdown. Shown here is the National Mall. While government shutdowns before 1995–1996 had very mild effects, a full federal government shutdown causes a large number of civilian federal employees to be furloughed. Such employees are forbidden even to check their e ...
The federal government managed the development of several vaccines for the virus through Operation Warp Speed in 2020. Distribution of the vaccines was overseen by the Biden administration during 2021, during which time many pandemic measures were ended. The national emergency related to the pandemic was ended by a bipartisan resolution of ...
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 ...
All federal buildings in Washington, D.C., including the White House, the United States Capitol, the United States Supreme Court Building and Blair House. Across the country, approximately one million federal workers were sent home; The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles (although all other D.C. government offices remained open) [12]