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The House on Wednesday passed a bill to reopen the government, sending it to President Trump’s desk and setting up the end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history. That vote came after eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus cut a deal with ...
Much of the federal bureaucracy is now officially dark. The government shutdown that began Wednesday is set to furlough food inspectors, park rangers and millions of other federal workers in Washington and across the nation. Some are only heading to their ...
Funding for federal agencies expires on Sept. 30, and Congress is at an impasse over how to avert a government shutdown. That means broad swaths of the federal government — from national parks to small business loans to taxpayer services — are set to ...
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The federal government partially shut down early Saturday as Congress did not agree on funding for several agencies before the midnight deadline. But this shutdown is likely to be less painful than the record-long impasse last fall for two main reasons.
The total U.S. government debt reached $40.05 trillion as of Monday, according to the Treasury Department. Treasury reported a $432.3 billion deficit in July, reaching its highest monthly level in more than five years.
Washington — A last-minute deal was reached Saturday to avert a government shutdown. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy brokered a bipartisan short-term spending bill that passed both the House and Senate with mere hours to spare before the midnight deadline.