Shutdown serves as exhibit A into why Congress does not work
There was nothing inevitable about this shutdown.Â
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There was nothing inevitable about this shutdown.Â
During the doldrums of a shutdown, the skirmishes spilled out into the relatively empty hallways. By the afternoon, more than one verbal clash had broken out.
President Donald Trump has pivoted to a noticeably lighter public schedule since the government began a partial shutdown last week, with no apparent signs he is trying to win over Democrats to reopen the
Still, cross-party negotiations on trying to find a way out of the shutdown are happening.
this week about the government funding impasse, White House and Capitol Hill officials said Monday, after lawmakers left Capitol Hill for a week on Friday with little movement toward averting a partial shutdown
It’s the same argument Democrats repeatedly made when they were in the majority and were locked in shutdown showdowns with Republicans.
The upcoming schedule is vastly different to the approach Trump and his aides took over the spring and summer as Republicans negotiated his signature measure known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The effort by the Kentucky Republican sets up an intraparty clash right as the speaker has other matters on his mind, like averting a partial government shutdown as the fiscal year ends.
This came two weeks after Gallego toured Iowa, and marked the completion of his first Iowa-New Hampshire swing — tour schedule stops that have long signaled a run for president.
House Republican appropriators are running into headwinds in their attempt to move fiscal 2026 spending bills before the August break, struggling both with a tight schedule and intraparty differences on
March 14: Fiscal 2025 continuing resolution expires When Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement to avoid a shutdown ahead of Christmas, the agreement pushed the deadline for enacting appropriations