Government shutdown

Just four months after narrowly averting a catastrophic default, the world's largest economy is once again teetering on the brink of a significant fiscal crisis.A bitter feud has erupted between President Joe Biden's Democratsand their…

Last Updated: April 27, 2023, 04:20 ISTOn Monday, the White House accused McCarthy of taking the economy hostage by attaching conditions to any extension of the country's borrowing limit. (Image: Reuters) The Limit, Save, Grow Act unravels…

WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to fund the federal government through mid-February, sending it on to the Senate which faces a midnight Friday deadline to pass it or face a partial government shutdown.…

Issued on: 30/09/2021 - 21:49 The US Congress on Thursday passed legislation to avert a government shutdown, but another test of President Joe Biden's agenda lay ahead as the House…

Issued on: 29/09/2021 - 18:20 The US Senate could vote Wednesday on a stopgap funding bill to forestall a government shutdown, Democrats said, but without a provision to increase the…