Shutdown

Senate misses deadline but averts shutdown after passing $1.2T funding package

Appropriations technically expired but shutdown procedures never commenced, with all agencies now funded through September.

  • Eric Katz

Here are the 9 biggest agency and program reforms in the final FY24 spending package

Lawmakers have until the end of the day Friday to move the second "minibus" of the fiscal year to avoid a shutdown.

  • Eric Katz
Updated

Congress, White House lock in a funding deal but face a tight timeline to avert shutdown

Appropriators are racing to finalize the text of the six-bill package.

  • Eric Katz

More than 600K federal employees are facing furloughs this week

Congress and the White House are still negotiating over a funding plan as they face a partial shutdown deadline on Friday.

  • Eric Katz

Congress averts shutdown, locks in some agency cuts as Senate backs funding package

Lawmakers now face a March 22 shutdown deadline for the rest of government.

  • Eric Katz

2 days before a shutdown, House sends $460B spending package to Senate

The measure, which would require small spending cuts at many agencies, heads to the Senate.

  • Eric Katz
Updated

Congress passes stopgap funding bill, delaying shutdown threat by one week

Congress hopes to begin voting on full-year appropriations next week.

  • Eric Katz

Congress reaches fiscal 2024 funding deal, new stopgaps in hopes of averting shutdown

Lawmakers must act in a hastened and united fashion to pass the new CR before funding expires this week.

  • Eric Katz

75,000 federal employees are facing furloughs this week

See who would be sent home if the government shuts down late Friday evening.

  • Eric Katz

Congress barrels toward more stopgaps as leaders tout ‘productive’ White House meeting

Leaders in both parties have committed to avoiding a shutdown, but major hurdles remain.

  • Eric Katz

With negotiations stalling, Biden, congressional leaders to meet days before shutdown

Democrats and Republicans are blaming each other for the lack of a funding agreement.

  • Eric Katz

Lawmakers reach a bipartisan breakthrough for FY24 funding

Congress is now one step closer to finally passing full year appropriations, but some hurdles remain.

  • Eric Katz

Congress averts shutdown, punts funding debate into March

Both the Senate and House approved a six-week stopgap on Thursday, just one day before a shutdown deadline.

  • Eric Katz
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Senate advances another two-tiered stopgap spending bill

Facing a potential shutdown at the end of the week, Congress aims to push the deadlines into early March.

  • Eric Katz

With partial government shutdown a week away, Johnson says he’ll stick to spending deal

Several conservative Republicans have been calling for the House speaker to set aside, renegotiate, or somehow sweeten the current topline agreement.

  • Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom

New turmoil over a possible government shutdown

Congress must pass some sort of spending bill before Jan. 19, otherwise the departments and agencies funded by the Agriculture, Energy-Water, Military Construction-VA and Transportation-HUD spending measures would enter a shutdown.

  • Jennifer Shutt and Jacob Fischler, States Newsroom

Another stopgap spending bill in the works as Congress struggles to avert a shutdown

A few lawmakers have called for shutting down the government in order to get the changes they want on immigration and border policy enacted.

  • Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom

Congress pivots to full-year funding bills after bipartisan agreement on spending levels

Deal would avoid major cuts but appropriators have just 10 days to avoid a partial government shutdown.

  • Eric Katz

OMB head 'not optimistic' about avoiding a government shutdown

Congress is back this week with a short clock to pass a 2024 budget or extend the existing stopgap measures funding the government.

  • Adam Mazmanian

As Congress looks to avert a shutdown, sequester cuts and furloughs loom

Lawmakers will resume negotiations in January with daunting prospects in front of them.

  • Eric Katz

Shutdown worries still loom in the new year, while wildland firefighters welcome a bill removing overtime caps

Pay and benefits news you may have missed.

  • Nathan Abse