WHEN WOULD A SHUTDOWN BEGIN AND HOW LONG WILL IT LAST? 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 la...
Updated on: September 30, 2023 / 10:00 PM EDT / CBS News Washington — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Saturday reached a last-minute compromise to keep the federal government running and avoid a costly shutdown. A 45-day stopgap spending bill with wide bipartisan support in both chambers ...
“This whole debate is a farce, it’s a deflection, even if the government were going to shut down, we know what happens every time. They get the back pay, it comes back bigger every time,” Ramaswamy said. “We need to stop the artificial debate about fake government shutdowns and ...
Congress worked late on Friday to avert a partial government shutdown. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., lauded the office's dissolution, pointing out that like most operations of the federal government, it was run on taxpayer funds. He told Fox News Digital, "House Republica...
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. Why would the government shut down? A shutdown happens when Congress fails to approve the funding bills, called appropriat...
While Kirby said there is patriotism and a sense of duty in serving in the military, he said a shutdown hurt service members. "You start missing a couple of paychecks when you're in active-duty service to the nation, and it starts to hurt. You can't buy groceries, or as many, a...
UPDATE(Nov. 11, 2023 5:20 p.m. ET):On Saturday,House Republicans unveiled their planto avert a government shutdown. The untested two-step continuing resolution will face a tough road in the House, let alone the Senate. The good news: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.,doesn’t want ...
How and when contractors get paid if the government shuts down are among many questions contractors have. Here is a glimpse at some answers. September 21, 2023 Contracting Ross Wilkers Senior Staff Reporter Preparing for the possibility of a government shutdown and making adjustments during a shut...
Government funding expires when the clock strikes midnight and it becomes Oct. 1, which marks the start of the new fiscal year. If Congress doesn’tget it together in the next eight days, millions of Americans could feel the effects of a government shutdown directly in their pocketbooks. Th...
The House passed a stopgap bill on Thursday afternoon that kicks Congress’ two government shutdown deadlines further into March, as top lawmakers work to pass final versions of half of the dozen annual funding measures next week. Now the spending patch awaits action in the Senate, where ...