The first US shutdown occurred shortly after in 1981, when President Ronald Reagan vetoed a funding bill, and lasted for a ...
The Senate is to meet at 3 p.m. EDT Monday, but there's no plan to vote on a government funding bill on the 27th day of the ...
Roughly 1,400 workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration — a branch of the Department of Energy — will be sent ...
The U.S. federal court system starting on Monday will begin curtailing non-essential functions and furloughing some employees ...
The president also said that if a deal was not struck "we can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them". The White House has suggested a shutdown could prompt ...
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Senators voted for a fourth time to reject spending bills to reopen the US government, meaning the shutdown will extend into ...