and to make more clean energy available to the American people,” said Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary. “We will continue to work with him to find a vehicle to bring this bill to the floor and get it passed.” ...
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN ; US Inches Closer to Its First Default; House Speaker Refuses to Vote on Bill without Concessions from PresidentDonna CassataMartin Crutsinger
But hardline Republicans say any temporary bill is a non-starter for them. They are pushing to keep the government shut down until Congress negotiates all 12 bills that fund the government, which is historically a laborious undertaking that isn't resolved until December...
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 passed both the House and Senate with hours to spare, and ...
The US Congress early on Saturday overwhelmingly passed a $1.2 trillion budget bill, keeping the government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago and sending it to President Joe Biden to sign into law and avert a partial shutdown. ...
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The House passed a bill Friday to set up a major spending increase and end a brief government shutdown, sending it to PresidentDonald Trumpfor his signature. Both chambers of Congress passed a short-term funding bill and cleared the way for a boost to military and domestic spending hours aft...
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 ...
On Monday, the Senate took up a House-passed bill that would have extended government funding to avert a shutdown and suspended the debt limit, butRepublicans blocked the measure. Senate Republicans have said that they would support a “clean” stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown if it ...
As government operations slow or stop altogether, the effects may also spread to businesses in theprivate sector. It's possible that the entire economy may lose money as a result of this disruption in government operations. However, the overall cost and lasting impact of a government shutdown o...