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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.
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.
There was nothing inevitable about this shutdown.
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
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
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.
GOP divisions But Johnson is facing increasing pressure from his right flank after relying on Democrats to avoid a government shutdown.
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Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said it is "certainly going to be harder" to avoid a 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
He said he was still hoping to avoid a partial government shutdown as members "that have been holding off all this time blaming everybody else, will finally, hopefully, move off."
plans to take up a stopgap funding measure this week after members of the fractious GOP conference warned there would not be enough votes to pass a continuing resolution to avert a partial government 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.
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
“I want to thank Congressional leadership who supported the bill and the overwhelming majority of Senators and Representatives in both parties who voted to avert a rail shutdown,” Biden said in a
The Senate passed a short-term spending measure Thursday, sending to the House a bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown next week and boost aid to Ukraine.
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.
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
He said the vote would likely be on an amended version of the bill House leaders had to pull from the floor schedule earlier in the day.