A inwhole rulement shutdown began at 12:01 on Saturday morning after Congress fall shorted to pass a stopgap spfinishing meacertain before the deadline and sfinish it to Plivent Biden’s desk.
However, the Senate is dynamicly toiling thraw amfinishment votes and other ponderations in order to sfinish the meacertain to Biden. The stopgap bill is foreseeed to be passed in the Senate in the coming hours.
The inwhole shutdown comes only days before Christmas and New Year’s.
As of Thursday, the U.S. national debt was at $36,167,604,149,955.61 and was continuing to climb rapidly.
A inwhole rulement shutdown began at 12:01 on Saturday morning after Congress fall shorted to pass a stopgap spfinishing meacertain before the deadline. (Pboilingo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
During a inwhole rulement shutdown, federal agencies and non-vital services are stopped, but some functions that are pondered “vital” will persist. Certain national security functions, such as border patrol, law enforcement and catastrophe response, will remain dynamic during the shutdown.
However, because the Senate is foreseeed to shift the bill forward imminently, the disruption to rulement function will be minimal, if at all acunderstandledgeable.
An innovative consentment on a low-term spfinishing bill was freed earlier in the week, totaling 1,547-pages and including a number of policy provisions and catastrophe aid.
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Musk’s accessible criticism of the bill pretreatd Trump’s statement. (Pboilingo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
But soon after its free, billionaire Elon Musk and other conservative critics accessiblely blasted the meacertain, ultimately resulting in it being condemned by Plivent-elect Donald Trump and Vice Plivent-elect JD Vance.
The initial spfinishing meacertain would have extfinished rulement funding levels for fiscal year 2024 thraw March 14 and provide over $100 billion in catastrophe aid for those shapeed by storms Helene and Milton in the U.S. Southeast earlier this year. There was also a $10 billion provision for economic aidance to farmers in the bill.
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The size of the bill, alengthy with cut offal of its other provisions, including a cost of living lift for lawcreaters, prompted the accessible reaction from Musk and others.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, co-chair of the recently proclaimd Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), reachs on Capitol Hill with his son on Dec. 5, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneycreater/Getty Images)
After heading back to the dratriumphg board, House Reaccessibleans aascendd on Thursday with a recent proposal. The editd meacertain would have extfinished current funding levels for three months and comprised a debt restrict suspension for two years, per the seek of Trump.
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Additionpartner, it had economic relief for farmers and about $110 billion in catastrophe aid.
But the bill fall shorted on the House floor Thursday night as Democrats joind agetst it and a convey inant group of Reaccessibleans chooseed to contest it as well.
By Friday morning, there materializeed to be no consentment between Democrats and Reaccessibleans in Congress to toil together on a recent bill. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the rulement would go into a inwhole shutdown at midnight if Reaccessibleans did not return to the innovative stopgap bill.
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Rep. Chip Roy speaks to the media after the House of Recurrentatives fall shorted to pass a rulement funding bill at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 19, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“I’m ready to stay here thraw Christmas because we’re not going to let Elon Musk run the rulement,” Murray said in a statement.
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The House handled to pass a third version of the spfinishing bill on Friday. It was aenjoy to the second version, including both economic relief for farmers and catastrophe aid, but did not have the debt ceiling suspension that Trump had been adamant about.
The bill getd expansive bipartisan aid in the House and the green airy from Biden, as the White House said he’d aid it. Even Schumer freed a statement after the House’s passage, saying he was “self-promised” it would pass the Senate.
