Government Shutdown
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Republican senators have blocked a bill to keep the U.S. government funded and allow borrowing
September 27, 2021 -
You need a scorecard for the legislative shenanigans going on on Capitol Hill this week.
September 27, 2021 -
The government shutdown deadline is right around the corner. The good news? Congress has learned a few things from the last shutdown, bringing the tiniest bit of certainty to feds with their back pay and health insurance the next time it happens again.
September 27, 2021 -
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.
September 23, 2021 -
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.
September 23, 2021 -
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.
September 21, 2021 -
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.
September 20, 2021 -
The Senate returns to Capitol Hill this week with a mountain of work, and less than three weeks to prevent a government shutdown.
September 13, 2021 -
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.
September 07, 2021 -
There are real questions about the duration of a likely continuing resolution, and whether it’ll be long enough to avert a government shutdown.
August 17, 2021 -
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.
April 02, 2021 -
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.
January 01, 2021 -
A whole swath of professions will lose special pay if Congress can't override the NDAA veto.
December 29, 2020 -
Missing the guardrails by inches, the nation's careening political apparatus has managed to fund the government for fiscal 2021.
December 29, 2020 -
Congress has easily passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package
December 22, 2020