Government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed without pay if Congress fails to provide funding for fiscal year starting October 1.
Shutdowns happen when Congress and the president fail to complete a set of 12 spending bills or fail to approve a temporary measure to keep the government operating. / Photo: AP
Instead, he's launched a much more ambitious plan to try to start passing multiple funding bills once the House returns Tuesday, with just five days to resolve the standoff. With the October 1 start of a new fiscal year and no funding in place, the Biden administration's Office of Management and Budget began to advise federal agencies to review and update their shutdown plans, according to an OMB official.
"They’re back at it again, breaking their commitment, threatening more cuts and threatening to shut down government again," Biden said during a recent speech in suburban Maryland. They opposed the budget deal the speaker reached with Biden earlier this year and are trying to dismantle it.On late Thursday, the hard-right faction pushed McCarthy to consider their idea to shelve plans for a stopgap funding measure, called a continuing resolution, or CR, and instead start bringing up the 12 individual bills needed to fund the government.
The House Rules Committee was holding a Friday afternoon session to begin preparing those bills, which historically require weeks of floor debate, with hundreds of amendments, but now are slated to be rushed to the floor for next week's votes.Shutdowns happen when Congress and the president fail to complete a set of 12 spending bills or fail to approve a temporary measure to keep the government operating.
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