Shutdown

Congress passed the bill earlier Thursday, hours before a looming midnight deadline.

President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday ruled out a national shutdown, saying, “Every area, every community can be different, and so there’s no circumstance in which I can see that would require a total national shutdown. I think that would be counterproductive.”

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced on Thursday the state would institute a two-week pause starting at the end of November to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in the state.

America does not need another large-scale shutdown to contain the surging coronavirus pandemic, the top official coordinating the Trump administration’s COVID-19 testing said on Sunday.

For residents across America’s Sun Belt — business owners and workers, consumers and home buyers —  the past three months have delivered about the scariest ride in memory

Large crowds gathered to protest California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to close beaches in Orange County, Calif., after large crowds were seen at beaches last weekend.

Actress Vanessa Hudgens is facing backlash after she called the coronavirus shutdowns “bull—-” and said people dying as a result of the virus is “inevitable.”

Four Orange and Silver Line stations in Virginia will close Jan. 11-12 so crews can install trackbed lighting. Court House, Clarendon, Virginia Square and Ballston stations will be closed Saturday and Sunday for the entire day, Metro says. Free shuttle buses will replace trains between East Falls Chuch and Rosslyn stations. To accommodate shuttle schedules, the last trains on Saturday…

Last week, Congress ended the federal shutdown — at least for now — slowing the daily flow of stories about furloughed workers who cannot pay their rent, work but have no savings, or are insured but cannot afford their medication. But while those workers have returned to their jobs, NBC News reports, the problems that come with economic insecurity remain...

Fred Pickett, a mail clerk at the Environmental Protection Agency for 27 years, is one of many workers with disabilities who remain furloughed during the government shutdown, and he’s been feeling the effects.

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump’s speech about the government shutdown and the deal he offered that both Democrats and hard-line conservatives have rejected.

Senate leaders agreed to hold votes this week on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies, forcing a political reckoning for senators grappling with the longest shutdown in U.S. history: Side with President Donald Trump or vote to temporarily end the shutdown and keep negotiating. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. set up the two showdown votes for Thursday, a...

Federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown are feeling a financial squeeze, but there are many ways citizens are working to ease the stress.

Just two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history. The winter months are critical for wildfire managers who use the break from the flames to prepare for the next onslaught, but much...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at accusations that President Donald Trump worked for a foreign government and the federal government’s ongoing shutdown.

With the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat Monday, declaring he would “never ever back down.” Trump rejected a suggestion to reopen the government for several weeks while negotiations would continue with Democrats over his demands for $5.7 billion for a long, impregnable wall along the...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump traveling to Texas to make the case for his border wall as the government shutdown drags on.

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump’s primetime address on the government shutdown that he started over his border wall.

House Democrats are using their new oversight authority to investigate the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s management of the shutdown, as questions mount about HUD’s failure to renew low-income housing contracts for more than 1,000 properties across the country, NBC News reported. “HUD knew for months about this impending deadline to renew the contracts, but for some reason they...