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It's customary for the Office of Management and Budget to engage with agencies on planning seven days before any government shutdown deadline. OMB said it's confident Congress will avoid a lapse in appropriations before next Thursday's deadline, although it's unclear what path lawmakers will take to do so.
While members of Congress and the White House are using the threat of a shutdown to win a budgetary or political victory, the pawns are you.
The House passed a nine-week continuing resolution Tuesday night, which would sustain agency operations through Dec. 3. But the CR also temporarily suspends the debt limit through December 2022, a measure Republicans have said they're unwilling to support.
Besides fighting over a $3.5 trillion extra spending bill and a $2.9 trillion tax hike, there's the matter of the regular old appropriations to keep the government running.
The Senate returns to Capitol Hill this week with a mountain of work, and less than three weeks to prevent a government shutdown.
With a short-term continuing resolution nearly inevitable to start the upcoming fiscal year, the White House submitted a lengthy list of budget anomalies it believes Congress should include in a temporary stop-gap funding bill.
There are real questions about the duration of a likely continuing resolution, and whether it’ll be long enough to avert a government shutdown.
Federal employees and annuitants will no longer see major disruptions to their health, dental, vision and life insurance during future government shutdowns thanks to a new policy, which the Office of Personnel Management finalized Friday.
In an extraordinary New Year’s Day session, the Republican-controlled Senate easily turned aside the veto, dismissing Trump’s objections to the $740 billion bill and handing him a stinging rebuke just weeks before his term ends.
A whole swath of professions will lose special pay if Congress can't override the NDAA veto.
Missing the guardrails by inches, the nation's careening political apparatus has managed to fund the government for fiscal 2021.
Congress has easily passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package
Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Monday night that would finally deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
For the third year in a row, Congress isn't buying the White House's request nor Democrat lawmakers’ pleas for more money to help agencies move away from legacy systems more quickly.