The $1.2 trillion government funding bill has made its way to the Senate after the House passed it Friday morning. The upper chamber has until midnight Friday to send the bill to the president's desk to avert a partial shutdown. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has the la...
The U.S. federal government went into partial shutdown on Saturday, Oct. 6, 1990 after some members of the Republican party opposed an agreement reached by then President George H.W. Bush and Democrats to raise taxes. The opposition blocked a spending bill in Congress as the new fiscal yea...
Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, told CBS News that only 28 of the independent agency's 433 employees would keep working during a shutdown. Those 28 include director-level employees and board members. The remaining workers would be furloughed, including acci...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- A partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government came into effect, starting Friday midnight, after failed attempts to end a budget impasse over President Donald Trump's long-promised border wall. The White House and Congress failed to reach a deal earlier ...
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The head of the Transportation Security Administration acknowledged to his staff on Wednesday that frontline officers are increasingly calling out of work due to financial hardship caused by the government shutdown, spokesperson Michael Bilello told ABC News. (MORE: TSA chief: Financial hardship...
Kevin Hassett, chairman of White House Council of Economic Advisers, told CNN in an interview Wednesday that U.S. economic growth in the first quarter could be "very close to zero" if the shutdown extends until end of March, though suggesting a rebound afterwards. ...
The Senate is marching ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown. But on the House side, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one.