A shutdown would close federal agencies ... The single biggest task for Congress is to fund the government by the Sept. 30 deadline. It’s a foregone conclusion that lawmakers will need a stopgap ...
Congressional leaders reach deal to avoid a government shutdown before election Congress is returning to Washington with a nailbiter of an election hovering and an even more pressing task.
Congress set up a spending fight at the ... we don’t know exactly when that point will arrive, unlike a government shutdown.” Akabas continued, “I definitely think the dynamics next year ...