A shutdown of the government is a forced halt of most federal ... climb from a deep dip of 565,000 employees in January 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown over the holidays collapsed ... the U.S. Office of Personnel Management said in 2021 guidance issued to agencies. “Excepted” work includes ...

The general lack of economic reporting from the government during a shutdown can add to uncertainty for markets too. Overall, ...

and the government entered a shutdown. Even after leaving the White House in January 2021, Trump has continued to meddle with funding bills. Just this past fall, he again called for Republicans to ...

On Dec. 18, President-elect Donald Trump abruptly condemned a bipartisan plan to prevent a looming partial government shutdown. He instead told House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress ...

In 2021, the DOE released a contingency plan in the event of a government shutdown, which said the DOE would "phase in employees only as necessary to support and prevent significant damage." ...

The clock continues to tick as lawmakers in Congress race to avoid a late-December government shutdown. On Thursday, House Republicans announced a new proposal to fund the government but right ...

The 2018-2019 shutdown furloughed roughly 800,000 of the federal government's 2.2 million employees ... The Department of Justice said in its 2021 contingency plan that 85% of its 116,000 ...

based on guidance from the Office of Personnel Management last updated in 2021 after a number of changes were signed into law following the 35-day partial government shutdown that began in late 2018.

There have been a total of ten government shutdowns in US history, ranging from just four hours to 35 days. The first was in 1980, when the Federal Trade Commission had to be shut down for a day ...