Congress averts government shutdown as Senate passes funding bill
Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown, approving a last-gasp federal funding bill to cap a week whose events could ...
Congress stripped IRS of another $20 billion in government shutdown fight
Republican lawmakers have now clawed back half the investment the Biden administration made in the tax agency.
Senate passes spending bill to avert government shutdown, sending to Biden
Congress has limited time to avert a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution after the latest Trump-backed ...
Why Republicans will probably be blamed for a shutdown
The GOP has set about trying to blame Democrats, but it’s clear which side is driving the harder bargain — and Americans don’t like that.
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The U.S. government could shut down this weekend. Here’s what to know.
A federal shutdown is looking likely in the wake of a Republican revolt against a proposed spending bill, as a weekend deadline looms. If Congress can agree on a new spending measure before the ...
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House rejects Trump-backed spending bill to avert government shutdown
The government shut down twice during Trump’s first term ... Wednesday with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post) at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and the two ...
How every House member voted on the bill to avoid a shutdown
The GOP-led funding bill, which also required a two-thirds majority, failed as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) fell ...
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Government shutdown looms as House rejects GOP funding bill
The federal government moved closer to a weekend shutdown Thursday ... David Schweikert (R-Arizona) told The Washington Post. “And here many of the same people who complained about that are ...
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Bipartisan bill to avert government shutdown appears to hit snags
lawmakers are eager to bolt from Washington to get home for the holidays. The legislation would push off the government shutdown deadline by three months and include up to $100 billion of ...
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A government shutdown looked unlikely. Then Elon Musk took to X.
Congressional leaders had lined up on Tuesday to approve a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown — before ... With a five-word post on X, Musk threw the process into chaos.
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How a government shutdown affects D.C. museums, the Smithsonian and memorials
A federal government shutdown stops paychecks and halts scientific research. It upends the plans of tourists, who’ve traveled to visit some of the most popular museums in the world, and the ...