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This week: Senate returns with clock ticking toward shutdown
Shutdown leaves roughly 750,000 federal workers furloughed with paused non-essential services amid a political deadlock over healthcare subsidies and budget priorities.
- The Senate is expected to vote on a bill to extend government funding on Tuesday to avoid a shutdown at Wednesday's midnight deadline, following a House-passed measure to fund operations for seven weeks.
- Democrats fear that Republican delays could allow Affordable Care Act tax credits to expire, impacting health insurance for millions.
- Senators and members of the House will continue to receive paychecks during a shutdown due to constitutional protections, while over 4 million federal workers, including military personnel, will not.
- The Office of Management and Budget has threatened mass firings of federal workers in the event of a shutdown, causing significant disruptions in services.
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Republicans and Democrats at an Impasse as Government Shutdown Enters Sixth Day
Republican and Democratic lawmakers have provided few public signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government as the shutdown entered its sixth day.
‘This Guy Is Not OK!’: Trump Handed Meme Gold to the Internet After His Own Words Came Back to Haunt Him—Then His Cringey AI Video Made It Even Worse
President Donald Trump is eating his words. A social media post he made on government shutdowns from 12 years ago and other resurfaced video clips have now come back to haunt him, and the internet isn’t letting him forget. It’s especially relevant after Trump’s threat to fire workers in “Democrat agencies” over the shutdown and a bizarre AI-video he posted Thursday showing his Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought dressed as th…
Why is this government shutdown so consequential?
The U.S. federal government has shut down for the first time in six years, and while budget fights in Congress aren’t a rare occurrence, many political analysts say this shutdown could look drastically different from those that came before. In particular, President Donald Trump’s pledge to fire thousands of government employees, alongside continued fighting between Democrats and Republicans over Medicaid subsidies, could mean this shutdown has d…
Catholic Groups Call for Action To End Federal Government Shut Down
The Peace Monument, named Grief and History, is pictured at the U.S. Capitol in the hours before a partial government shutdown in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (Photo: OSV News/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters) by Kate Scanlon WASHINGTON (OSV News) – Congressional lawmakers failed to pass legislation to fund the federal government, resulting in a federal government shutdown at the end of September. Catholic groups that serve the poor urged lawmakers to end…
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