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Deal to end government shutdown advances in Senate
The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.
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The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.
No, it wasn't about ending the longest government shutdown in American history.
The House has been out since the government shutdown began, and then some. It last conducted legislative business on Sept. 19.
The announcement Friday had initially been scheduled for release last week, but the administration said the schedule was pushed back as a consequence of the ongoing partial government shutdown.
That interview came just before a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from firing workers during the shutdown. Judge Susan Illston of the U.S.
Senate and House Republicans alike have said negotiations, particularly over the tax credits, should take place after the shutdown has ended.
​Coast Guard personnel will get paid this week despite the partial government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
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
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.
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
The calendar features just one planned four-week period in session before the August recess, with holiday breaks following a traditional schedule, including two weeks around the time of Easter and Passover
"The Biden regulatory agenda comes to a grinding halt with a government shutdown," he posted on X in September 2023.Â
tie a six-month spending extension to a voting restriction bill pushed by former President Donald Trump was stymied Wednesday as the Louisiana Republican was forced to pull the package from the floor schedule
"Of course not," Scott said when asked about supporting a potential shutdown over the SAVE Act. "There’s nobody up here who wants to shut down the government."
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.