House sends government funding bill to Senate 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 congres...
Government funding expires Oct. 1, the start of the federal fiscal year. A shutdown will effectively begin at 12:01 a.m. if Congress is not able to pass a funding plan that the president signs into law. It is impossible to predict how long a shutdown would ...
Government funding expires Oct. 1, the start of the federal fiscal year. A shutdown will effectively begin at 12:01 a.m. if Congress is not able to pass a funding plan that the president signs into law. It is impossible to predict how long a...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that senators have reached a deal on a stopgap government funding measure to prevent a shutdown. "We are ready to move forward," Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor. "We have an agreement on ... the...
Failure of the President and Congress to reach agreement on interim or full-year funding measures occasionally has caused government shutdowns, the longest of which lasted 21 days, from December 16, 1995, to January 6, 1996. Government shutdowns have necessitated furloughs of several hundred ...
The length of any government shutdown would depend on how long it takes Congress to pass funding bills that the president is willing to sign. Congress previously passed a stopgap funding bill back in September, before Oct. 1, which was the last deadline to f...
Trump has been pressuring congressional leaders to approve the funding for the border wall, a centerpiece of his presidential campaign in 2016, ahead of a deadline in December that could see a partial government shutdown. U.S. lawmakers agreed earlier this year to fund most of the federal go...
The deadlock put the federal government into shutdown on Oct. 1. During the shutdown, Republicans made at least three proposals to renew funding for the government, under the condition of curtailing Obamacare. The proposals were rejected by the Democrats. ...
2. Disruptions go beyond lost funding. Federal shutdowns affect more than just dollars for programs. Other government functions—like rulemaking, grantmaking, and technical assistance or administration—can come to a halt as well and lead to wide-ranging challenges. ...
“A key here is making sure that the government doesn’t shut down, which means extending government funding after the deadlines if we can’t reach agreement,” Schumer said. A White House statement on the meeting said Biden “emphasized that the only path forward is through bipartisan funding...