"If it was a choice between shutting down the government for a couple of days versus shutting down businesses, better off to shut down the government," Daines added. Sen. Mike Lee is one of the leaders of an effort to force Congress to suspend vaccine mandates in its continuing res...
The government is partially shutting down,because Congress has failed to pass the straightforward legislation necessary to keep the government running without imposing sharp hikes in Medicare premiums and deep cuts in education and the environment.It is particularly unfortunate that the Republican Congress...
On the other hand, that aversion to shutting down the government also gives leverage to those in safe districts who see an opportunity to extract concessions. Some conservatives have suggested that a shutdown wouldn't be so bad. "I'm not afraid of a shutdown," Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas R...
The agreement -- passed with cross-party support in both chambers -- came ahead of a September 30 deadline to either approve a new government budget or begin shutting down federal agencies just five weeks ahead of Election Day. The measure, which needed huge Democratic support in the Republica...
Xi Jinping is now expected to have more power to push forward his economic reforms, which also include easier access of foreign companies to the Chinese market. However, the term “Chinese characteristics“ implies that the Party and the Gover...
barely avoid shutting down the government - for the second time in two years, that's a somewhat low bar - but we should celebrate where we can.” He added, “The bad news is it looks like Republicans just barely avoided shutting down government again for the second time in two years....
However, Bill Hoagland, senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said shutting down the government is not a "good political decision," especially since Mr. Trump promised his base that Mexico would pay for his wall. He considers it a lose-lose situation for the president. ...
In the week leading up to Christmas last year, the Congress and the President went eyeball to eyeball, almost shutting the government down, over an item in the Continuing Resolution, the legislation controlling appropriations levels for the federal government. What was theMarkey, Edward J...
Congress was able to avoid shutting down the government after McCarthy put a 47-day funding resolution on the floor Saturday, hours before funding for the government would expire. It won the support of every Democrat but one, and 90 Republicans voted against it. The bill was overwhelmingly pas...
Republicans chose the DHS funding fight to take a stand on immigration because the department is responsible for securing the border and issuing the work permits that would allow undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. While the rest of the government was funded through September in a spen...