The House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would reopen the government through February, but the measure is unlikely to end what has become the longest government in U.S. history.
Read moreRepublicans on Wednesday cast House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request to postpone the Jan. 29 State of the Union address due to lack of security caused by the partial government shutdown as a ploy to deny Trump the stage.
Read moreJust two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history.
Read moreThe partial government shutdown threw a prime Washington ritual into question Wednesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to forgo his Jan. 29 State of the Union speech, expressing doubts that the hobbled government can provide adequate security. Republicans saw her move as a ploy to deny Trump the stage.
Read moreThe federal government shutdown over funding for a border wall has lasted 26 days, the longest in U.S. history, but Americans are not interested in their party making any concession that would end the impasse, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.
Read moreWashington, D.C.-based Atlas Brew Works claims in a federal complaint that it faces criminal prosecution if it ships its beer outside of D.C. without a “certificate of label approval,” which it cannot obtain because of the government shutdown.
Read moreThe Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 employees furloughed by the partial government shutdown to handle tax returns and process refunds — and work without pay. And The House and Senate announced Tuesday they would stay in session, canceling a planned recess week at home if the shutdown continues, which seems likely.
Read moreFurloughed NASA worker Craig Rhodes said Tuesday if he misses one more paycheck he’s going to start looking for another job. “You get kind of sick and tired of Congress saying, ‘Well just dip into your savings.’ Okay, my savings will last me a few weeks, then what?”
Read moreDenying federal employees a pass on working unpaid during the government shutdown, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that bending to their demands would be “profoundly irresponsible” and throw the nation into “disarray.”
Read moreWith the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat, declaring he would “never ever back down.”
Read moreThe Senate is not set to confirm William Barr as U.S. attorney general until Tuesday, but an advance copy of the nominee’s statement shows Barr will vow not to interfere in the special counsel’s investigation.
Read moreSen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday encouraged President Trump to reopen government for several weeks to continue negotiating with Democrats over the border wall . If there’s no deal at the end of that time, Graham said, Trump should be free to take the dramatic step of declaring a national emergency to build it.
Read moreFallout from the federal government shutdown is hurting hundreds of Native American tribes and entities that serve them.
The pain is especially deep in tribal communities with high rates of poverty and unemployment, and where one person often supports an extended family.
As thousands of workers missed their first paycheck Friday because of the government shutdown, a new federal class action from air traffic controllers details how a handful are struggling to make ends meet.
Read morePresident Donald Trump tamped down expectations that he is close to declaring a national emergency to get the money he desires to build his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall as a three-week impasse closing parts of the government continued on Friday.
Read moreIn his first presidential visit to the Texas-Mexico border on Thursday, President Donald Trump was met with protests hours after he threatened to declare a national emergency to get funding for his signature campaign promise of a border wall.
Read moreWith the partial government shutdown in its 20th day, the House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that would reopen several shuttered government agencies, as a potential long-shot deal to reopen the government crumbled in the Senate.
Read moreRepresentatives for FBI special agents petitioned the White House and Congress to end the government shutdown Thursday, calling it a matter of national security to ensure that nearly 13,000 agents do not miss their first paycheck Friday.
Read morePresident Donald Trump “got up and walked out” of a Wednesday meeting over the government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats would not approve money for a wall along the southern border.
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