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Government shutdown recap: Congress passes funding deal
Congress passed a bipartisan deal spending deal after Donald Trump and Elon Musk tanked an earlier bill. The government did not shut down.
Congress strips IRS of another $20B in averting government shutdown
WASHINGTON -- Congress stripped the IRS of an additional $20 billion last week when averting the government shutdown. Originally, congressional Democrats had given the IRS $80 billion in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. But, in the 2023 budget deal, Congress revoked $20 billion of that.
Congress stripped IRS of another $20 billion in government shutdown fight
Republican lawmakers have now clawed back half the investment the Biden administration made in the tax agency.
Congress Averts Government Shutdown: How It Happened
The shutdown was averted on Friday after the House voted to back a new CR without the debt-ceiling increase Trump demanded.
Biden signs stopgap funding bill into law after Congress votes to avert shutdown
Congress voted to avert a shutdown early Saturday morning after House GOP leaders dropped a demand from Donald Trump over the debt limit, highlighting the limits of the president-elect’s influence on Capitol Hill despite his position as leader of the party.
Congress averts government shutdown as Senate passes funding bill
Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown, approving a last-gasp federal funding bill to cap a week whose events could reverberate throughout 2025 and Donald Trump’s second presidency. The House on Friday agreed to a bipartisan deal to punt a funding deadline to March 14,
Republicans strip IRS of another $20b in government shutdown fight
Biden and congressional Democrats gave the IRS $80 billion in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, but Congress rescinded $20 billion as part of a 2023 budget deal.
Republicans quietly cut IRS funding by $20 billion in bill to avert government shutdown
The GOP assault on the revenue collecting agency's funding could exacerbate wait times and balloon the deficit
Congress averted shutdown, but storms lie ahead as House speaker faces criticism
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Congress avoids shutdown, but this Trump-Musk whiplash is only a preview | Opinion
President-elect Donald Trump, following the lead of his edgelord chancellor Elon Musk, has given Democrats a gift that ...
Congress avoids a shutdown but leaves ‘a big mess' for Trump and Republicans in 2025
Another funding bill. A debt limit extension. Major party-line bills on immigration and taxes. Nominations. Trump tried to ...
Congress has to pass another stopgap funding bill. What happens in a shutdown?
Congress previously passed a stopgap funding bill back in September, before Oct. 1, which was the last deadline to fund the ...
Government shutdown is averted just after deadline as Congress rejects Trump’s debt limit demands
Hours to go before a midnight deadline, the Senate is preparing to give final approval to a new plan from Speaker Mike ...
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Congress turns shutdown into a game show — who decides?
Congress shakes up the shutdown showdown with a high-stakes game of musical chairs—find out who will decide the nation’s ...
Opinion - How to make a government shutdown impossible
By a matter of minutes, the federal government averted yet another shutdown. Fingers are again being pointed to determine ...