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Government Shutdown
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Feb. 29, 2024
Johnson Gets One Last Chance to Avoid Government Shutdown The House passed one more stopgap spending bill, but conservative rebels may still cause a shutdown if they don’t get their way on spending.
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Feb. 21, 2024
Congress Is Hurtling Toward a Government Shutdown If conservatives can badger Mike Johnson into rejecting any bipartisan deals, they may secure across-the-board spending cuts after a shutdown.
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Jan. 12, 2024
Republican Disarray May Prevent a Government Shutdown More Mr. Magoo than Machiavelli, Speaker Johnson may luck into another temporary reprieve on the spending disputes that divide the GOP.
government shutdown
Jan. 10, 2024
Johnson Needs Trump’s Permission Not to Shut Down the Government Like Kevin McCarthy before him, the house speaker wants Trump to protect his right flank.
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Jan. 9, 2024
GOP Border Demands Drive New Government Shutdown Threat Conservative hardliners are trying to force Democrats to make concessions on border policy, and Speaker Mike Johnson can’t stop them.
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Jan. 3, 2024
2024 Drama Kicks Off With Shutdown Threat and Trump Showdowns With congressional funding cliffs, GOP presidential primaries, and Trump court decisions, January and February are sure to be chaotic.
By Ed Kilgore
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Nov. 16, 2023
Government Shutdown Threat Delayed, But Not Defeated Conservatives gave Mike Johnson a mulligan in avoiding a government shutdown, but now they’re spoiling for a fight.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Nov. 13, 2023
Johnson Needs Democrats to Avoid a Shutdown, Just Like McCarthy New Speaker, same dilemma: Either anger some Republicans by working with Democrats, or watch Washington shut down.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Nov. 10, 2023
Speaker Johnson Has One Weird Plan for Avoiding a Shutdown With just one week to go, the unpopular “laddered CR” seems to be all he’s got.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Nov. 3, 2023
Does Mike Johnson Even Want to Avoid a Government Shutdown? With the clock ticking down, the new Speaker is coming up with complications that will make keeping the government open even harder than before.
By Ed Kilgore
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Nov. 1, 2023
What Will Democrats Give Up to Get More Aid for Ukraine? Republicans are demanding border-security concessions that will divide Democrats deeply, and even that may not be enough to save help for Kyiv.
By Ed Kilgore
How Jamaal Bowman Tried to Spin Pulling a Capitol Hill Fire Alarm The New York Democrat claims he was in a rush to vote and thought the fire alarm would open a locked door in his way.
By Ben Jacobs
early and often
Oct. 2, 2023
GOP Hard-liners Overplayed Their Hand Against McCarthy Matt Gaetz and other GOP rebels left the Speaker with no option but to cut a deal with Democrats to avoid a shutdown. But the chaos is far from over.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Oct. 1, 2023
Kevin McCarthy Traded One Crisis For Another The Speaker will now face a “motion to vacate” by Florida congressman Matt Gaetz and his hard-right allies in the House.
By Ben Jacobs
government shutdown
Sept. 30, 2023
Government Shutdown Live Updates: Shutdown Averted The Senate overwhelmingly passed the House’s stopgap spending bill, which means the government will be funded for another 45 days.
By Intelligencer Staff
government shutdown
Sept. 29, 2023
The Shutdown Is About the GOP’s Dysfunctional Family Drama It may seem like it’s “about nothing,” but House Republicans’ unhinged, destructive feuding is more Yellowstone than Seinfeld .
By Ed Kilgore
What Would Actually Happen During a Government Shutdown Hundreds of thousands of federal employees would be furloughed and delays could pile up even more at U.S. airports.
By Matt Stieb
early and often
Sept. 22, 2023
Democrats Set High Price for Helping McCarthy Avoid a Shutdown McCarthy may need Democrat votes to avert a shutdown and save his Speakership. But getting them will mean abandoning the Biden impeachment inquiry.
By Ed Kilgore
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Sept. 21, 2023
Shutdown Nears As Trump Tells House GOP to Defund the Government Everything Kevin McCarthy does to placate right-wing hard-liners makes a deal even harder. Trump’s advice isn’t helping.
By Ed Kilgore
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Sept. 18, 2023
We Could Be Headed for a Record-Breaking Government Shutdown With the September 30 deadline approaching, House Republicans are hopelessly divided and Kevin McCarthy is struggling to find a way forward.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 30, 2023
Did We Just Trade a Debt Default for a Government Shutdown? Most of the debt-limit deal must be implemented via future fights over appropriations, which could trigger shutdowns and even deeper cuts.
By Ed Kilgore
What Is Congress Even Doing Right Now? A Brief Guide. Congress is tangled in interlocking bills and delayed crises. Here’s the real status and deadline on reconciliation, the debt ceiling, and the rest.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Dec. 1, 2021
Will Republicans Force a Government Shutdown to Fight Biden’s Vaccine Mandates? A small group of conservatives can gum up the works and force at least a brief shutdown. But with Omicron looming, the timing is strange.
By Ed Kilgore
All These Crises in Congress Are Self-Imposed The dysfunction in D.C. is largely the product of Congress’s own laws and procedures. And lawmakers have the power to fix it.
By Ed Kilgore
What Joe Biden Needs to Tell Warring Democrats It’s time for Democrats in Congress stop posturing, drop their demands, and heed Biden’s call for party unity – or they’ll face a grim future.
By Ed Kilgore
Government Shutdown and Debt Default ‘Cliffs’ Loom Ahead There is an awful lot going on in Congress, but keeping the federal government going and paying its obligations have to come first.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Appear Ready to Play Game of Chicken on Debt Limit They’re gambling on forcing Republicans to cooperate, which is no sure thing.
By Ed Kilgore
covid-19 stimulus
Dec. 20, 2020
Congress Finalizes Stimulus Deal: Updates Congress will vote on the new COVID-19 relief package and omnibus on Monday.
By Chas Danner
Congress and Trump Will Keep Bickering Through the Holidays Endless wrangling over spending and stimulus and a likely Trump veto of a defense-policy bill are casting a pall over a holiday-decorated Capitol.
By Ed Kilgore
Stopgap Spending Deal Ends Government Shutdown Threat Pelosi gave in on farm aid Trump is distributing in exchange for some concessions, relegating spending disputes to a lame-duck session.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus stimulus
Sept. 3, 2020
Why the Deal to Avoid a Government Shutdown May Be Bad News Usually a deal that averts a shutdown is a good thing, but there’s a catch this time.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus stimulus
Sept. 1, 2020
Mark Meadows Has Been a Game Changer in Stimulus Talks, and Not in a Good Way As Mnuchin’s “chaperone” and a world-class deal-breaker, the White House chief of staff may be the fly in the ointment.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus stimulus
Aug. 27, 2020
Republicans Abandon Stimulus Checks As Talks Slip to End of Fiscal Year The effort to provide badly needed COVID-19 relief and stimulus just got delayed and complicated once again as Republicans refuse to budge.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 20, 2020
Yes, Trump’s Job-Approval Ratings Are Finally Rising It’s unclear whether it’s real and will last, but it’s happening at the perfect time for Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Dec. 12, 2019
Congress Agrees to Spending Deal to Avoid Holiday Government Shutdown Unless the president conducts one of his famous last-minute flip-flops, the lights will stay on and the 2020 election will dictate future priorities.
By Ed Kilgore
Washington’s Jam-packed December Will Cast a Long Shadow on 2020 With impeachment proceedings, a big DoJ report on the Russia investigation, and a possible government shutdown in play, it could get crazy.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Nov. 19, 2019
Why Congress May Give Us a Government Shutdown for Christmas Once again, spending runs out just before Christmas. Once again, Trump’s border-wall demands are the main sticking point.
By Ed Kilgore
House Dems Want to Give America an Impeachment Christmas Present By eschewing litigation and hard-to-secure witnesses, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, and the rest are on a fast track to a pre-Christmas Trump impeachment.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Sept. 26, 2019
Congress Quietly Avoids Government Shutdown Unless Trump changes his mind and decides to veto it, the stopgap spending bill defers fights over items like the border wall until November.
By Ed Kilgore
immigration
Apr. 12, 2019
An 11-Year-Old Girl Could Be Deported Without Her Family The child might be sent back to El Salvador all by herself due to a clerical error.
By Amanda Arnold
vision 2020
Mar. 18, 2019
White Evangelicals Are Still the Heart of Trump’s Base Yes, white Evangelical support varies modestly along with Trump’s overall standing, but it’s still his best demographic.
By Ed Kilgore
national emergency declaration
Feb. 15, 2019
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Emergency Everything you need to know about Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency to fund a southern border wall.
By Matt Stieb
national emergency declaration
Feb. 14, 2019
Trump to Sign Spending Bill, Declare National Emergency to Build the Wall Trump avoids another shutdown and an admission of failure, but an emergency declaration over the wall could create a legal and political quagmire.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Feb. 14, 2019
Congress Set to Pass Deal to Avoid Shutdown, But Trump Could Still Kill It Trump has been noncommittal about signing the funding bill. It mostly represents his surrender, so he may just be pondering how to spin it.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Feb. 13, 2019
Republicans May Block Efforts to Get Shutdown Back-Pay to Federal Contractors A Democratic bill would provide back pay to low-wage contractors affected by the shutdown, but Trump and fellow Republicans oppose it.
By Sarah Jones
government shutdown
Feb. 12, 2019
Trump May Accept Defeat on Wall Funding and Claim He’ll Get His Money Elsewhere As Congress denies him anything like the border-wall money he’s demanded, Trump may claim he’ll “plus up” the amount via executive action.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Feb. 12, 2019
Congress Tentatively Agrees to Wall Funding Democrats First Proposed in December On Monday, negotiators put forward a $1.375 billion deal for wall funding — a number conspicuously close to what Democrats offered Trump last year.
By Matt Stieb
government shutdown
Feb. 11, 2019
Shutdown Negotiations Still Snagged As ICE Detention Policies Come to the Fore With Trump headed to an El Paso rally amid mischaracterizations of what Democrats are demanding, another government shutdown is possible.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Quietly Laying Groundwork for Massive Surrender on Border Wall If he accepts the kind of deal in the works right now, Trump will have been dealt an embarrassing defeat.
By Ed Kilgore
For Lack of Anything Better to Do, Congress Resumes Border Negotiations Wheeling and dealing on border-security appropriations are pointless unless Trump gets involved or decides to take matters into his own hands.
By Ed Kilgore
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