In 1995, it was about spending cuts. In 2013, it was about a health care plan. In 2018, it was about a Mexican border wall.
Following are the longest government shutdowns since 1980, when U.S. administrations started furloughing some federal workers ...
Lawmakers eventually approved a spending bill without border wall money that Trump signed into law on January 25, 2019, ending the shutdown. 1995-1996 - 22 days The government partially shut down on ...
The federal government is now less than 24 hours away from a shutdown. As the hours tick down and the House and Senate continue to struggle to reach a spending deal before the 12:01 a.m. deadline on ...
WASHINGTON — With the federal government now officially in a shutdown, lawmakers are confronting echoes of the last major shutdown and longest funding lapse in U.S. history — a 35-day impasse during ...