Government Shutdown

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Speaker Johnson postpones vote on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson has postponed a vote on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months.

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Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package after Senate’s early-morning passage ended government shutdown threat

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Sequestration’s head pops up, for a peek at continuing budget uncertainty

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Congress passes first package of spending bills just hours before shutdown deadline for key agencies

The Senate on Friday approved a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a shutdown of many key federal…

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What will happen now that Congress bought itself a week or two on the budget?

It is not what contractors or most federal employees wanted, but Congress did manage to avoid a partial government shutdown last week.

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Lawmakers’ weekend effort delivers six funding bills, as government shutdown fuse sizzles

To avoid a government shutdown, the bills still must be approved by both houses of Congress before March 9, both of which return to work on Tuesday afternoon.

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