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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.
Congress' schedule for next year is set after the Senate rolled out its 2026 calendar Wednesday, a day after the House unveiled its own version.Â
↵↵Senate Republicans have committed to schedule a vote on legislation to renew the tax credits before the end of next month — but most Democrats, both progressives and centrists, say that's not enough
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.
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.
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
The House has been out since the government shutdown began, and then some. It last conducted legislative business on Sept. 19.
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.
Still, cross-party negotiations on trying to find a way out of the shutdown are happening.
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.
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
"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
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 threat of a partial government shutdown, and its potential political impacts, may not resonate unless it actually happens.