Feb 28, 2024 Congress approves short-term funding bill to avoid shutdown The stopgap measure averts a partial government shutdown, delaying the funding deadlines until March. Jan 18, 2024 Deal reached on short-term funding bill to avert government shutdown ...
Trump's last-minute demand was almost an impossible ask, and Johnson had almost no choice but to work around his pressure for a debt ceiling increase. The speaker knew there wouldn’t be enough support within the GOP majority to pass any funding package, sin...
Dec 21, 2024, 10:30 AM CST Ahead of vote on shutdown bill, Senate approves funding for pediatric cancer research Dec 21, 2024, 8:39 AM CST Jeffries calls funding bill passage 'a victory' Dec 21, 2024, 7:28 AM CST Johnson celebrates passage of funding bill, urges S...
Negotiators from Congress and the White House are scrambling to complete work on funding government agencies for the fiscal year and avoid a partial shutdown that could begin this weekend. March 19, 2024 Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown d...
Read more: 2024 U.S. presidential election Congress has until Sept. 30 to strike a funding deal or else risk triggering a partial government shut down. As that deadline inches closer, Johnson has showed no signs of backing down from the SAVE Act bill attachment, staying in line with Trump...
The U.S. seemed to be barreling toward what would have been one of the largest government shutdowns in history -- until a stopgap 45-day funding bill was hastily passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden on Saturday night, not long before the deadline. Had lawmakers failed ...
Congress approved a stopgap funding bill on the night of Sept. 30, averting a government shutdown. However, the bill did not include drastic federal funding cuts and tighter border controls previously demanded by House Republicans, as well as money for Ukraine proposed by House Democrats. This ...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., cheered the passage of a short-term funding bill that avoided not only a government shutdown but also a slew of deep spending cuts sought by some GOP lawmakers. "We avoided all of the extreme, nasty, and harmful cuts MAGA Republicans wanted...
Essential employees, even though they continue to work during the shutdown, are not paid while the government is shut down. They receive back pay once funding is restored to their agency. Employees in nonessential positions are furloughed until the government is funded again and don't come into...
The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a federal government shutdown shortly after the midnight funding deadline.