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The US government is gearing up for a possible indefinite shutdown as Congress failed to pass the Senate's Continuing Resolution bill and voted against a defense expenditure bill.

A full government shutdown is all but certain this weekend after House Republicans failed to unite around a temporary funding measure Friday. The last ditch effort to keep the government open suffered a dramatic, if not entirely surprising, defeat as 21 GOP holdouts joined all House Democrats in voting against the measure, doubling down on their previous commitment to refuse any stopgap spending bill. This act of defiance towards House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shined the spotlight on his st...

Once again, Washington is barreling toward a possible government shutdown. Congress has had nine months to fund the government, but there is a lack of willingness on both sides of the aisle to control spending. Rather than remedy our out-of-control spending problem, many Republicans want to team up with Democrats to keep our country on […]

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said the Senate's continuing resolution to fund the government will be "dead on arrival" in the House.

Once again, Washington is barreling toward a possible government shutdown. Congress has had nine months to fund the government, but there is a lack of willingne

Again, Washington is barreling toward a possible government shutdown. Congress has had nine months to fund the government, but there is a lack of willingness on

Once again, Washington is barreling toward a possible government shutdown. Congress has had nine months to fund the government, but there is a lack of willingness on both sides of

Republicans huddled late Friday afternoon in what was a last-minute attempt by McCarthy to unite his conference behind a short-term spending measure.

The budget impasse at the center of world imperialism takes the form of a savage intensification of the attack on the working class.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) dared his hardline conservative Republican critics to try to remove him from the Speakership over his move to bring a “clean” continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government to the House floor on Saturday. “If someone wants to remove because I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead…