When a shutdown happens, the government isn’t able to spend money — with some exceptions — meaning that federal employees ...

The longest shutdown was also the most recent: The government shut down for 34 full days from Dec. 21, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019. During that shutdown, national parks remained open, but trash started ...

A day before a potential government shutdown, the House rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan Thursday to fund ...

Relief from the guilt of telling my kids 'no.' The shutdown began a few days before Christmas in 2018 and dragged on for weeks. It was the longest government shutdown in U.S. history ‒ 35 days.

On Dec. 22, 2018, the U.S. government began a record 35-day partial shutdown after the Senate was unable to agree on a ...

About 800,000 federal employees went without pay for 35 days during the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown in 2018 and 2019. It was the third federal shutdown to occur during the first Trump ...

As a government shutdown looms, here's what to know about which federal agencies and services could be impacted.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, talks briefly to reporters just before a vote on an interim spending bill to ...

With a potential government shutdown looming ahead of the holidays, here's what you need to know if mail services will be ...

Some were so short they didn't cause a government shutdown, but the longest, in 2018-19, lasted 35 days, although it was counted as 34 days because the final day, when funding was restored ...

Government workers have already been told to prepare for a federal shutdown which would send millions of employees — and ...