Like any home or business, the federal government must pay its bills. When Congress can’t agree on how to appropriate money for funding, non-essential departments of the government shut down.

The longest shutdown in U.S. history started in 2018 and lasted 34 days. The shutdown occurred over an impasse on funding for Mr. Trump's border wall during his first term.

Senate Democrats are ‘TBD’ as shutdown fight shifts to their chamber House Republicans overcame their paper-thin majority yesterday evening and passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the ...

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 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. Congress has until ...

Take a tour through the best charts 538 made this year. The year 2024 was one for the history books, and 538's visual journalists and reporters were hard at work explaining the data behind the ...

Flat Returns During Shutdowns The longest shutdown of the US government occurred in 2018-19 and lasted for 35 days, from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019.

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It's tough to remember now, but the S&P 500 returned 10.3% during the 35-day shutdown of 2018-2019. Have a look at the chart below: (Image credit: YCharts) ...

The government has shut down twice in the last 11 years, once in 2013 and once in 2018-2019. The latter, over a border wall funding dispute, was the longest government shutdown in U.S. history ...

Government shutdown odds are rising. Economic experts aren’t panicking (yet). Ben Werschkul · Washington Correspondent Actualizado Thu, Dec 19, 2024, 10:35 AM4 min read ...