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Another funding extension eyed as partisan immigration standoff deepens
↵↵Republicans, for their part, sought to increase the pressure on Democrats to pass a bill that avoids a department shutdown.
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↵↵Republicans, for their part, sought to increase the pressure on Democrats to pass a bill that avoids a department shutdown.
The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.
That remove gives him a unique vantage point to the current partial government shutdown.
Bipartisan discussions are picking up momentum this week as lawmakers face building pressure to end the partial government shutdown ahead of critical deadlines for food stamps and health care, senators
President Donald Trump is expected to host Senate Republicans for a Rose Garden lunch Tuesday, while the ongoing partial government shutdown continues to have no end in sight.
Senate and House Republicans alike have said negotiations, particularly over the tax credits, should take place after the shutdown has ended.
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.
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
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.
"The bipartisan funding framework congressional leaders have reached moves us one step closer to preventing a needless government shutdown and protecting important national priorities," President Joe Biden
GOP divisions But Johnson is facing increasing pressure from his right flank after relying on Democrats to avoid a government shutdown.
Aggressive appropriations schedule Meanwhile, House Republican leaders at the closed-door conference meeting laid out an aggressive schedule for October consideration of seven of the chamber’s remaining