Without a budget extension, government departments will run out of funding at midnight on Friday and be forced into a partial shutdown. Most VA operations would not be impacted by a shutdown, because the department gets the bulk of its budget a year in advance. But VA ...
“Passing the clean CR this week is important for two main reasons,” he said. “First, passing the CR of course will avoid a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown. No reasonable member on either side, Democrat or Republican, wants a government shutdown.” “Second, passing the CR wi...
The House easily passed a new Continuing Resolution today to keep the government operating after Friday. The situation unfolded just like the last shutdown crisis, with Democrats deciding to support legislation introduced by the Speaker of the House, providing enough votes for it to pass despite Re...
or Johnson would face intense ire from some members of his conference for breaking the commitment. That would almost guarantee that the deadline would pass before the Senate could approve the measure, with parts of the government set to shutdown on Saturday morning. Accordingly, an additional sho...
House and Senate leaders only said that an agreement was in place to move the six bills forward and hopefully avoid a shutdown of about 70 percent of Federal agency operations as of midnight on Friday, when current funding is due to run out. ...
avoiding a government shutdown, but not ending the debate on taxes and spending. After the Legislature sent the Governor a budget that did not include a millionaire’s tax, corporate responsibility fee, and tax on opioid manufacturers, the Governor line-item vetoed several appropriations and signed...
A strike could start as soon as Sept. 18. Air Canada and its low-cost subsidiary Air Canada Rouge together operate nearly 670 flights per day, and a shutdown could affect 110,000 passengers daily as well as freight carriage. Airline CEO Michael Rousseau said the airl...
Homeland Security, Defense, Labor and Health and Human Services, as well as funds for foreign operations, financial services and the legislative branch. If approved, the package would take the threat of a government shutdown off the table until the beginning of the next fiscal year on Oct. 1...
Congressional leaders announced a $1.59 trillion deal on top line spending Sunday as the government races to avoid a potential shutdown.
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 l...