The American Legion has issued warnings about potential disruptions to its members as well. In a statement issued ahead of a prior government shutdown deadline in October, the organization emphasized the potential risk to military recruitment. "Hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Department of...
Congress passed a deal before the deadline to fund the government is Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. Without a funding plan, a shutdown would have taken effect at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. The length of any government shutdown would depend on how ...
” which include air traffic controllers, law enforcement, prison operations, border control agents, TSA, hazardous waste handlers and food inspectors, would keep working. The U.S. Postal Service will also continue operation if a shutdown happens...
The bill provides funds until 17 November 2023, which represents the new deadline for the US Government to reach a long term agreement. Should an agreement not be reached by that time, a federal shutdown will begin. The short term agreement avoids any immediate disruptions to US supply chai...
14, 2023. Mariam Zuhaib/APIn a bipartisan vote, the House has passed Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avert a government shutdown just days ahead of a Friday deadline. The final vote was 336-95 with more Democrats voting for the stopgap funding bill than did Republicans -- 209 to 127, ...
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 ...
the House and Senate are set to return to Capitol Hill next week. Lawmakers will have just three days when both chambers are in session to approve the first four appropriations bills to prevent a partial shutdown after March 1. The second deadline will land a week later, on March 8, aft...
That move had echoes of October, when a small band of hardliners engineered a vote that removed McCarthy for relying on Democrats to pass a stopgap measure to avert another partial government shutdown. They had been angry at McCarthy since June, when he agreed with Biden on the outlines ...
They will meet to discuss the path forward amid a very divided conference and a high-tension week as the funding deadline looms closer. Link Copied! 2:09 a.m. 20:14:04, September 30, 2023 JUST IN: House fails to advance last-ditch stopgap bill as government barrels toward shu...
Just five days remain until a key government funding deadline, and even after congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle announced a deal to avert a shutdown until March, the schedule leaves little room for error. On Sunday night, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Ch...