Tag: government shutdown
Government shutdown averted with little time to spare as Biden signs...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a federal government shutdown suddenly lifted late Saturday as President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill to...
McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a...
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as a robust...
U.S. small-business optimism hits 2-year low amid shutdown
NEW YORK - Sentiment among United States small businesses slumped in January to the lowest level since Donald Trump became president, as the economic...
CBO sees Trump shutdown as an economic blip totaling $3B
NEW YORK - The five-week partial shutdown of the United States government will ultimately cost the world’s biggest economy just $3 billion, though the...
Trump unveils agreement to reopen government for 3 weeks
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump announced a deal to reopen the government for three weeks, ending a 35-day partial shutdown touched off by...
Senate extends shutdown deadlock by blocking spending measures
NEW YORK - The Senate blocked two rival proposals to reopen U.S. government agencies in largely partisan votes, leaving President Donald Trump and lawmakers...
U.S. airport screener absences triple as shutdown continues
WASHINGTON – The number of U.S. airport screeners who took unscheduled absences rose to 10 percent on Sunday, more than triple that of a...
Is the government shutdown a net positive or a net negative...
With the federal government shutdown having become the longest in history, it may be time to make some qualitative judgments about its effects, short...
The shutdown’s bad. Buckle up because it could get much worse
NEW YORK - Airport security screeners could quit en masse, grounding flights. The federal courts could stop hearing civil cases. City buses could stop running.
And...
WaPo: Furlough of SBA affects over $200M in loans for small...
PROVIDENCE – The partial federal shutdown has paused approvals of new U.S. Small Business Administration-backed loans, the Washington Post reported Friday.
The Post said that...
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