Biden signs bill to keep government funded and avoid shutdown

President Biden on Saturday night signed a stopgap funding bill, avoiding a government shutdown right before the midnight deadline.

The continuing resolution (CR), passed by both the House and Senate by wide margins earlier in the day, will continue funding the government at its current spending levels into mid-November. It includes $16 billion in disaster relief, but no aid for Ukraine or changes to border policy.

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Threat of government shutdown ends as Congress passes temporary funding plan, sends to Biden

The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday, hours before a midnight deadline, as Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open and sent the measure to President Joe Biden to sign.

The rushed package drops aid to Ukraine, a White House priority opposed by a growing number of GOP lawmakers, but increases federal disaster assistance by $16 billion, meeting Biden’s full request. The bill funds government until Nov. 17.

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Ditching Ukraine aid, U.S. House in bipartisan vote passes bill to avert shutdown

The U.S. House approved a bill Saturday that would stave off a government shutdown until at least mid-November, though the measure doesn’t include Ukraine aid backed by both Republicans and Democrats.....MORE

Embattled Congress lurches toward midnight shutdown

Congress is lurching toward a shutdown that would begin early Sunday morning, with House Republicans battling one another and the Senate moving forward with a bipartisan plan that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has not committed to bringing to a vote in the House.....MORE

How would a government shutdown impact veterans’ health care services?

Some services from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will stop if the government shuts down this weekend, but officials said most patients should not notice a difference.....MORE

Matt Gaetz and far right feuded with Kevin McCarthy for weeks. Here’s how it’s spiraling into a shutdown.

With little time left to prevent a government shutdown, the House is in a familiar position: effectively paralyzed as conservatives feud with Speaker Kevin McCarthy over matters large and small.

McCarthy has pushed the Republican conference to embrace a short-term funding plan that would include a sweeping Republican proposal for the southern border. But a small group of hard-line conservatives has defied the Speaker in a quest to get rid of stopgap funding plans, known as continuing resolutions, even if opposing them means forcing a government shutdown.

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PANIC TIME: McCarthy rejects Senate funding bill, almost ensuring a shutdown

According to Congressional savant Jake Sherman, Kevin McCarthy says he doesn’t see the Senate stop-gap funding bill passing the House of Representatives, thus nearly guaranteeing a government shutdown.....MORE

Senate votes to advance short-term funding bill to avoid government shutdown

The Senate voted Tuesday to advance a short-term funding measure to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week.

The vote was 72-18 at 6:23 p.m., with some senators still arriving to vote. That is more than enough for the motion to pass, as 60 votes were needed to move forward.

The vote puts the Senate on a path to pass a continuing resolution (CR) later this week that it could then send to the House to avoid a shutdown on Oct. 1.

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The federal government is headed into a shutdown. What does it mean, who's hit and what's next?

While some government entities will be exempt — Social Security checks, for example, will still go out — other functions will be severely curtailed. Federal agencies will stop all actions deemed non-essential, and millions of federal employees, including members of the military, won't receive paychecks.....MORE

House GOP unveils opening move in bid to prevent a shutdown

The House this week will look to take up a GOP-crafted continuing resolution to fund the government beyond Sept. 30 — the conference’s opening move in Congress’s quest to avoid an end-of-the-month shutdown.....MORE

Goldman Sachs predicts government shutdown ‘more likely than not’ this year

Goldman Sachs in a report released Sunday predicted a government shutdown was “more likely than not” this year, pointing to the slim House majority and a lack of agreement on key spending issues.....MORE