Republicans Divided on Stopgap Strategy to Prevent Looming Shutdown

Republicans divided on stopgap strategy to prevent looming shutdown

Republicans are divided as they try to chart a plan to keep the government open past the end of the month, with just 12 legislative days until funding runs out. Top Republican appropriators are pushing for a short-term funding patch that lasts into November to buy time for Congress to strike a larger bipartisan deal to fund the government through early fall of 2026. But some hardline conservatives, nervous about the prospect of being jammed with…

Congress races to avoid government shutdown as partisan standoff deepens

Lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill this week with the threat of a government shutdown intensifying. Partisan fault lines are already solidified.

Every fall there’s a government shutdown warning. This time it could happen

WASHINGTON — Congress returns to Washington, D.C., this week following an uneventful August recess where little to no progress was made on government funding, even though lawmakers have just weeks left until their shutdown deadline.

Buckle up: Fall triggers new massive headaches for MAGA

WASHINGTON — It may now be fall, but that doesn’t mean Congress finished its summer homework.After taking August off, Congress returns this week to face basically the same teetering stack of unfinished business that was on its plate at the end of July. A government shutdown looms, even as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal threatens to doom President Donald Trump and the stack of nominees before the Senate has only grown longer. Buckle up. It’s promisi…

Government Shutdowns: Assessing the Real Cost to Taxpayers

When rumblings of a federal government shutdown surface, they trigger immediate concern among public employees and, with growing apprehension, the broader American populace. But what exactly precipitates these shutdowns, and how do they genuinely affect the U.S. economy and the American taxpayer? The nation faces a potential government shutdown on October 1, 2025 due to lawmakers' failure to approve the 12 appropriations bills needed to finance …