What to know about the looming government shutdown as funding deadline nears 05:01. Washington — Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the ...

The U.S. government faced the threat of a shutdown if Congress didn't pass a spending bill before Dec. 21, 2024. Here's a look at the potential impact.

In the case of a government shutdown, those workers are put on leave because there isn't money budgeted for their job. The good news is that furloughed employees who are not allowed to work or who ...

About 800,000 federal employees went without pay for 35 days during the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown in 2018 and 2019.. What happens to Social Security and Medicare? Both retirement and ...

U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers would be told not to work if Congress fails to extend funding past Friday.

Rather than set government straight, Elon Musk is leaving Washington with the federal budget all cattywampus. Deficit spending is increasing, not waning, and there is a growing school of thought ...

Musk is what's known as a "special government employee," a designation given to people who join the government for a short period of time typically to provide specialized expertise.

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed ...

A Call for Constructive Engagement. April 22, 2025. As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government ...