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Federal courts can continue to operate for several weeks but eventually may have to scale back. Congressmembers will continue to be paid but staff would not. TSA would have to continue to work but ...
A K9 officer patrols the front of the Capitol on a day where a potential government shutdown looms during the holidays after a spending bill backed by Donald Trump failed in the U.S. House of ...
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
The first cases relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C., were reported on March 7, 2020. [1] The city has enacted a variety of public health measures in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus, including limiting business activities, suspending non-essential work, and closing down schools.
Johnson’s replacement bill for the shot-down continuing resolution was a 116-page bill to keep the government funded until March 14 which included about $100 billion in disaster relief and $10 ...
Units of the National Park System closed during the 2013 federal government shutdown. Shown here is the National Mall. While government shutdowns before 1995–1996 had very mild effects, a full federal government shutdown causes a large number of civilian federal employees to be furloughed. Such employees are forbidden even to check their e ...
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell participates in a videoconference of the Federal Open Market Committee from the Eccles Building in June 2020. On March 3, 2020, the Federal Reserve lowered target interest rates from 1.75% to 1.25%, [ 277 ] the largest emergency rate cut since the 2008 global financial crisis , [ 278 ] in an attempt to ...
The United States federal government shutdown from midnight EST on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 (35 days) was the longest government shutdown in US history [1] [2] and the second [a] and final federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the first presidency of Donald Trump.