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After days of heated negotiations on Capitol Hill, the House passed its funding bill to prevent a government shutdown Friday ...

If the government shuts down days before Christmas, holiday travel could be hit but holiday shipping spared. By Friday morning, lawmakers were still scrambling to reach a deal that would avoid a U.S.

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And yet, just days before Christmas, Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown, needlessly injecting chaos and dysfunction into what should be an easy time of year for governance.