A deal that avoided a shutdown also slashed spending for the National Science Foundation, putting it billions below a congressional target intended to supercharge American science research.
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As Democrat and Republican leaders negotiate a potential spending deal to fund the government, the partial shutdown of 2013 offers some clues about the economic impact should they fail.
Congress is again on the brink of a government shutdown less than four months after the last close call.
With the US government seemingly heading toward a potentially painful federal shutdown, a scholar explains why such events never occur in the UK.
While a single shutdown is unlikely to push a government worker to quit, the cumulative effect of multiple shutdowns can lead to low worker morale and employee retention problems.
Shutting down the government won’t help reduce the deficit. Here’s what would.
Congress passed and the president signed the deal just days before the US was expected to default on its debt.
Congress is working on a spending bill to avert another government shutdown. Scholars explain what’s in store if they fail.
States led by Republican governors generally had higher COVID-19 case and death rates in 2020.
The government shutdown provided a short-term version of what some activists have long wanted: A government small enough so that you could ‘drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.’
Trump is not the first US president to talk about border security, but he is the only one to make it an “urgent national crisis”. Here is a handy deconstruction of President Trump’s rhetorical strategy.
A corrosive ageism in Australian politics overvalues the new, while discounting experience. If the US and UK can see the value in older politicians, why can’t we?
The partial shut-down has ratcheted up tensions within the Republican party and added to speculation that President Trump will face a primary challenge some time before the 2020 presidential election.
As the US shutdown continues, voters seem to be increasingly blaming the president for the impasse; meanwhile, a “no-deal” Brexit looms.
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