US EditionWhat Does a Government Shutdown Mean and when Was the Last One?
Disagreements over health care subsidies and spending levels led to the shutdown, marking the first federal closure since 2018, affecting thousands of government workers.
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Why a quick compromise to the first government shutdown in nearly 7 years seems unlikely
The Capitol is seen in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 25, 2025. AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteCongress failed to meet an Oct. 1 deadline to adopt a spending measure and keep the federal government open, resulting in the first government shutdown in nearly seven years. With both Democrats and Republicans seemingly prepared for a long fight, Alfonso Serrano, a politics editor at The Conversation, interviewed Charlie Hunt, a congressional expert at Boise…
The U.S. deports former Cuban judge accused of sentencing protesters on the islandThe U.S. government closes in the absence of agreement between Democrats and Republicans in CongressFor the first time in nearly seven years, the U.S. federal government suffered a partial shutdown, after Republican and Democratic legislators failed to reach an agreement on budgetary matters, a crisis that temporarily paralyzes some of the government services consi…
The last time Democrats shut down the US government was seven years ago.
The U.S. federal government entered shutdown on Wednesday morning, as partisan divisions prevented Congress from passing a spending bill, marking the government's first shutdown in almost seven years. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be forced to take unpaid leave, with some public services likely to be suspended or delayed, and publication of economic data could also be affected. The shutdown started a few hours after the U.S. Se…
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