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The president with the highest number of shutdown days is Jimmy Carter, who had 56 days in five separate shutdowns from 1977 to 1979. Bill Clinton is third with 26 days in a single year in 1995.
If the government shuts down days before Christmas, holiday travel could be hit but holiday shipping spared. By Friday morning, lawmakers were still scrambling to reach a deal that would avoid a U ...
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 ...
A host of lawmakers are set to take the Sunday show circuit in the wake of a government spending deal being reached to avoid a shutdown. Trump is also set to make remarks at “America Fest ...
The clock continues to tick as lawmakers in Congress race to avoid a late-December government shutdown. On Thursday, House Republicans announced a new proposal to fund the government but right ...
The partial shutdown comes only days before Christmas and New Year's. As of Thursday, the U.S. national debt was at $36,167,604,149,955.61 and was continuing to climb rapidly.
That shutdown started on Dec. 22, 2018, and lasted until Jan. 25, 2019. According to the Congressional Budget Office , it cost the U.S. economy $3 billion, which it never regained.
House Speaker Mike Johnson walks following the passage of a spending legislation to avert a government shutdown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 20, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)