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With a shutdown looming by the end of the week, Republicans face pressure from Trump and his ally Elon Musk to drop the funding bill they negotiated with Democrats. Elon Musk, a close ally of ...

Even though the deadline was missed, the government did not invoke shutdown procedures. Mr Musk wrote on X that he was happy with the package. "It went from a bill that weighed pounds to a bill ...

The U.S. Senate on Saturday voted to pass a spending bill that will fund the government through mid-March and avoid a shutdown. President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law. The Senate vote ...

Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency ... government funding 38 minutes after it expired at midnight (5am GMT Saturday). The government did not invoke shutdown procedures ...

A government funding stopgap is on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk after the Senate voted 85-11 to pass a 118-page bill to keep the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster ...

The government did not invoke shutdown procedures in the interim. The bill was signed into law by US President Joe Biden later on Saturday. The package had earlier cleared the Republican ...

Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government or federal agencies will shut down, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be sent home — or stay on ...

In the event of *** lapse in funding and *** shutdown of the government, the Department of Defense will continue to carry out our fundamental responsibility and mission to defend our nation and ...