The threat of a government shutdown has become more frequent over the past decade, as Congress has found itself engaged in funding fights that are ultimately resolved with massive, year-long spending packages. The most recent lapse in government funding, in late 2018, caused $3 billion in perm...
government shuts down for the first time since 1996, historical Gallup data show the shutdown 17 years ago had either no effect or a short-term impact on Americans' views of the U.S. and of the political players involved.MendesElizabeth...
In the late 1960s and early 1970sgovernment shutdownbegan to be used in reference to the actual shutting down of governmental services, but before it was applied to a government shutting down due to budgetary concerns the shutdowns seemed to be done as memorials or as a result of the acti...
The U.S. government shutdown, is now on track to become the longest in history. Friday marked Day 21. It’s also the first week that hundreds of thousands of government workers were not paid. The impasse is over President Trump’s demand for a border wall. But Trump now says he may ...
Trump fired off a series of tweets pushing back against the notion that he doesn't have a strategy to end what became the longest government shutdown in U.S. history when it entered its 22nd day Saturday. "Elections have consequences!" he declared, meaning the 2016 election in which "I ...
A prolonged government shutdown could have a negative impact on the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said last week. "If we have an extended shutdown, I do think that would show up in the data pretty clear."
deficit, but their uncompromising and confrontational style led many voters to blame them for a budget impasse in 1995–96 that resulted in two partial government shutdowns. Clinton wasreelected in 1996, though the Republicans retained control ofCongress....
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government stretched into the 21st day on Friday, tying the record for the longest in the country's history. U.S. President Donald Trump has locked himself in a stalemate with congressional Democrats in the dispute...
A Middle Tennessee sheriff's office has shut down the largest marijuana grow in the county's history at a former church.