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(The Center Square) – With less than 48 hours until the funding stopgap for the Department of Homeland Security expires, a hyper-partisan Congress faces limited options to avoid a partial government shutdown.
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(The Center Square) – The ball is in the U.S. Senate’s court to avert a government shutdown Jan. 30, with six fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills signed into law and six more having passed the House.
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday cleared three nearly $180 billion government funding bills that will take a step toward preventing a federal government shutdown at the end of January.
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(The Center Square) – With the longest government shutdown in history finally over, federal agencies are slowly bringing affected services back online and hoping to resume normal operations by the end of next week.
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted to reopen and fund the federal government Wednesday night, ending the longest government shutdown in American history.
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(The Center Square) – Food assistance for thousands of Coloradans is still on hold as the federal government shutdown drags to a possible resolution.
Nearly 23,000 aren’t getting paid, but many must keep working
FREE NEWS / OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT: Sherman County is the hardest hit; federal employees there make up 14% of the workforce and account for more than a quarter of the county’s total annual wages, according to state figures. Many are employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a branch of the nation’s Department of Defense.
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