The truth is that shutdowns are bad, no one wins, and everyone loses. The sooner it is over the better off we will all be.
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Federal workers and contractors forced to stay home or work without pay are experiencing mounting stress from shutdown
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan says Congress needs to fund improvements to the agency's holding facilities.
With furlough exceptions focused on protection of life and property, "partial" government shutdown paints a picture of two governments.
Trump signals no end in sight to government shutdown, with standoff over wall threatening to carry into January
In today's Federal Newscasts, the President lays out his latest set of demands from Democrats to end the partial government shutdown.
So did Santa bring you what you wanted? If you work for the federal government, the shirt answer is yes and no. It's been a wild ride but this year showed just how essential federal employees are.
The parties settle in for siege rather than work 'round the clock.
There's little effect on the public so far, but that will change the longer this partial government shutdown goes on.
The Office of Personnel Management has updated guidance on what federal employees impacted by a potential partial government shutdown should expect over the coming holidays.
In today's Federal Newscast, while some members of Congress are trying to make sure federal employees can get paid during a potential shutdown, don't expect every member to feel sorry for them.
The Navy tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that a change in funding could hurt its trajectory on readiness.
In today's Federal Newscast, Senate Democrats said more than 300,000 federal employees will be furloughed if Congress can't come to a deal on seven remaining appropriation bills.
Congress is considering whether to give feds a 1.9 percent pay raise in January. And the president has yet to decide or at least announce his decision whether to give nonemergency federal workers a bonus holiday on Christmas Eve.