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US federal government shutdown

March 2024

  • With only a slim majority in the House, Mike Johnson must rely on Democrats to get the measure passed in time.

    US Congress releases $1.2tn spending package to avert shutdown

    Speaker Johnson will have to rely on Democratic votes to get measure through House and to Senate in less than two days

November 2023

  • House speaker Mike Johnson successfully held a vote to avert a government shutdown on 14 November.

    House passes bill to avert shutdown – as it happened

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  • Mike Johnson at the US Capitol on 7 November.

    House to consider Mike Johnson’s unconventional bill to avert shutdown

    It is unclear if US House speaker’s bill has support to pass while government’s authorization to spend money expires on Friday
    • House speaker unveils Republican plan to avert government shutdown

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      Speaker Johnson, Israel, government shutdown and Virginia – Full Story podcast

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      Speaker Johnson, Israel, government shutdown and Virginia

  • An honour guard marches at a commemoration ceremony for Ukrainian defenders at Lychakiv cemetery on Sunday in Lviv, Ukraine. Joe Biden has urged congressional Republicans to pass a separate Ukraine aid bill.

    Biden urges Republicans to approve Ukraine aid, saying support cannot waver

  • Biden says 'brinkmanship has to end' after US shutdown avoided but Ukraine aid left out – video

  • Kevin McCarthy speaks after the House passed a stop-gap measure to fund the government.

    ‘Let’s have that fight’: McCarthy and Gaetz go to war over shutdown deal

    Far-right congressman says he will move to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker over deal to avert shutdown to ‘rip the Band-Aid off’
  • Kevin McCarthy stands behind a podium marked with the seal of the US House of Representatives speaker.

    McCarthy worked with Democrats to pause the US shutdown. Now his job is at stake

    House Republican speaker passed a bill extending government funding at the risk of alienating hard right party members
  • Joe Biden signed a bill on Saturday to extend US government funding and avert a shutdown

    ‘This is good news’: Biden signs stopgap funding bill to avert US shutdown

    President signed the bill hours after it was approved in a bipartisan vote, but admonished Republicans for the delay
  • An orange school bus drives through water more than halfway up its tires in a dreary and gray landscape.

    Government shutdown could hurt weather disaster responses, Fema says

    The House reached a budget deal on Saturday to extend funding for 45 days but Fema looks beyond at potential delays
  • People leave after visiting a food pantry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    The hidden cost of a shutdown: America’s battle with food insecurity

    The farm bill, which finances Snap benefits, must be renewed by Congress this year, as a rising number of Americans are going hungry
  • A very fat dark brown bear standing paw-deep in the rushing white waters of a stream.

    Fat Bear Week: US shutdown threatens to trample over Alaska’s annual contest

    Beloved, closely watched ursine popularity competition judging the stockiest bear before hibernation threatened by shutdown
  • A general view of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon national park, Arizona.

    US national parks set to close in event of government shutdown

    The interior department’s contingency plan emphasizes the need to protect park resources and ensure visitor health and safety
  • Kevin McCarthy on Capitol Hill on Friday.

    House votes against stopgap bill in blow to McCarthy as shutdown highly likely

    Speaker’s proposed measure tanked by hard-right Republicans with time running out before government funding lapses
  • A shutdown can wreak significant havoc on the country’s economy.

    What does a US shutdown mean? Seven things you should know

    Funding for federal agencies will run out on 30 September, a crisis fueled by ideological divisions among House Republicans
  • US Capitol in Washington DC as shutdown becomes more likely.

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Senate debates measure to prevent shutdown that McCarthy said he would not consider – as it happened

    The Senate measure would fund the federal government until 17 November and prevent the shutdown that will otherwise begin on Sunday
  • Kevin McCarthy, the House speaker, at the Capitol on Thursday. McCarthy predicted he would agree a deal despite time running out.

    US shutdown moves ever closer as McCarthy digs in over stopgap deal

    Republican House speaker says he will not take up Senate bill to keep government running despite his party’s lack of an alternative
  • young people lying on the ground with signs

    Eighteen climate activists arrested for shutdown protest in McCarthy’s office

    Members of Sunrise Movement refused to vacate House speaker’s office entrance until he pledged to avert US government shutdown
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