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Lawmakers have been racing against the clock to fund the government and avoid another shutdown by the month's end, but they are now facing an irregular opponent: Mother Nature herself.
The office of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., argued in its preview of the floor schedule that the 2022 overhaul "placed harmful and burdensome requirements on the D.C.
The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.
Despite the wins, Senate Democrats are torn over how to end the partial government shutdown, our colleagues Sandhya Raman, Jessie Hellmann, Lia DeGroot, Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton write.
"The Biden regulatory agenda comes to a grinding halt with a government shutdown," he posted on X in September 2023.Â
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., listed the stopgap measure on his floor schedule for the upcoming week. The Rules Committee is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m.
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the speaker’s race is taking up all the oxygen in the House, where the schedule is effectively frozen.
Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said it is "certainly going to be harder" to avoid a shutdown.
The key divide was where to set the annualized funding rate for the month of October on the measure, which would avert a partial government shutdown after Sept. 30.
The threat of a partial government shutdown, and its potential political impacts, may not resonate unless it actually happens.
Another provision would automatically trim spending by 1 percent below current-year levels as part of stopgap funding needed to avert a partial government shutdown if appropriations bills don’t become
But neither bill was included in the weekly schedule sent out Friday by Scalise’s office, and a person familiar with the status of the border security legislation confirmed it had been delayed.
Senate negotiations on a House-passed temporary spending bill to prevent a partial government shutdown on Saturday, which were still dragging on as this newsletter went out, have given Republicans
Legislative items pile up, and the threat of a calamitous event like a partial government shutdown or default brings lawmakers to the negotiating table before the holiday break.
This year’s matchup, delayed until late September due to COVID-19 and the Washington Nationals schedule, comes at a tense time on the Hill.
As a partisan fiscal standoff deepened, Democrats said they were determined to avoid a shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Friday.
“Yes, it’s a tight schedule, but I think most probably more it has to do with politics and the fact that you’re going to have the Senate vote again on another budget resolution, and that budget resolution
The House passed a catchall budget package Tuesday that’s intended to avoid a partial government shutdown and debt limit crisis, but it seems likely to come back for a do-over once the Senate works its
Appropriations Committee members called for bipartisan agreement between both chambers and the White House on spending toplines in order to avoid a series stopgap bills or yet another partial government shutdown