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The closure of all but critical government services would start on Sunday after midnight [04:00 GMT Sunday]. The US government is headed towards a shutdown…
The closure of all but critical government services would start on Sunday after midnight [04:00 GMT Sunday]. The US government is headed towards a shutdown…
The House voted 335-91 to fund the government for another 45 days, with more Democrats than Republicans supporting it. Lawmakers in the US House of…
1 of 4 | House Speaker Kevin McCarthy addresses the media following a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.,…
Sundays at the Yosemite Bug Rustic Mountain Resort, 35 miles southwest of Yosemite National Park’s Arch Rock entrance, are usually buzzing. The 45-bedroom facility in…
Legislators in the United States have little time left to avert a federal government shutdown, as a group of hardline Republicans has refused to support…
It is probably no surprise that Republican infighting scuttled a stopgap measure on Friday in the House of Representatives, designed to avert a government shutdown…
1 of 3 | House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., lacks his party's full support on a government funding bill due to a shortage of spending…
PHOENIX — Arizona and Utah will keep iconic national parks in those states open if a shutdown of the federal government threatens access to Arizona’s orange-striped…
Republicans are investigating corruption allegations against Biden family in push rejected by White House as baseless. Republican legislators in the United States have opened the…
1 of 4 | Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves his office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. McCarthy still…
WASHINGTON — Last Thursday, as I sat in the U.S. House of Representatives’ speakers lobby waiting to discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s visit with two…
An annual political battle over funding for the United States federal government has left the country on the brink of a shutdown. With just five…
Leaders in the United States Senate have agreed to a stopgap measure designed to prevent an imminent government shutdown over budget legislation. The deal, hashed…
1 of 3 | U.S Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters at the White House on Monday that an "extreme Republican" government shutdown next week…
A shutdown is possible if Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting October 1. A US government shutdown would negatively affect the…
If, instead, McCarthy passes a bipartisan continuing resolution to keep the government open, it likely imperils his speakership by decisively turning the House’s hardline conservatives…
“But they’re using Democrat votes to try to cause the shutdown,” Turner said of the GOP hardliners. “And these individuals, these Republican holdouts are voting…
The US federal government is once again facing a possible shutdown. The US could be headed towards a government shutdown. Congress needs to agree on…
For years, I stalked the Capitol halls amid Congress’ fiscal-year-end follies, waiting with other reporters for a breakthrough to end the latest faux crisis. I’m…
WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing Friday to direct federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend…