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Update, 6:43 p.m.: The U.S. government looked poised to avoid a prolonged government shutdown after the House of Representatives on Friday voted to approve a funding bill just hours before a ...
The longest shutdown was also the most recent: The government shut down for 34 full days from Dec. 21, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019. During that shutdown, national parks remained open, but trash started ...
Government shutdown 2024: Will a government shutdown affect Social Security checks? Here's what you need to know. When is the government shutdown deadline?
If Congress doesn’t approve a continuing resolution or more permanent spending measure by Friday, the federal government will shut down. When the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, Congress passed a temporary funding bill to keep the government in operation. That measure expires on Friday. Which government agencies would be affected by a shutdown?
In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or ...
A government shutdown may not be the gift Americans had on their list this holiday season. But the potential for one looms Friday.. A shutdown became more likely after President-elect Donald Trump ...
During the shutdown over the 2018 holiday season, air traffic controllers threatened to walk off the job, and a higher rate of absences slowed down travel in some airports.
The negative economic effect of the shutdown will be particularly severe in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Approximately 700,000 D.C. area jobs could be affected at a cost of $200 million a day. [180] The State of Maryland predicted that it would lose approximately $5 million a day in tax revenue. [181]