Is A Federal Shutdown Your Next Holiday Surprise?

By J. Chris Haile, Rebecca Springer, Robert Burton and Nicole Owren-Wiest (December 19, 2018, 6:31 PM EST) -- A partial shutdown of the federal government may begin at midnight Friday, Dec. 21, as political tensions remain high and the House of Representatives is not scheduled to reconvene until Wednesday afternoon. Congress has passed only seven of 12 fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills, meaning that a shutdown could affect a broad range of agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the General Services Administration, NASA, and the departments of Justice, State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture and Transportation, among others. Agencies for which Congress has passed a FY 2019 appropriations bill, and which therefore should experience little impact from the threatened shutdown, include the departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Energy....

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