The House of Representatives intends to begin work on the “One Big Beautiful Bill” at 9am today. Senators spent 27 hours ...

The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution ...

Highest number of shutdown days: The president with the most is Jimmy Carter, who had 56 days in five separate shutdowns from 1977 to 1979. Second is Donald Trump, with 38 days in two shutdowns in ...

What to know about the looming government shutdown as funding deadline nears 05:01. ... The longest shutdown in U.S. history started in 2018 and lasted 34 days.

The upper chamber has had fewer suspenseful votes this Congress as it has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominees with simple majorities.But the proposal to avoid a government shutdown after ...

The federal government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed by the end of Friday. Illinois has over 40,000 federal civilian employees who could be working with pay, working without pay ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is looking to lock down the votes to pass his stopgap funding bill and avert a government shutdown by Friday’s deadline, as he works to keep the lights on in ...

The shutdown began on Dec. 22, 2018, and ended on Jan. 25, 2019. At 35 days, it was the second-longest government shutdown in United States history. It was also the second shutdown during Trump's ...

The Republican-led government could be the first in history to oversee a major government shutdown while controlling the House of Representatives, Senate and the White House.

The costliest government shutdown in history set the economy back $3 billion, equivalent to the yearly sales of Pennsylvania's state-run wine and spirits stores.

The longest shutdown of the US government occurred in 2018-19 and lasted for 35 days, from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019. During that time, approximately 800,000 federal employees were ...

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