Senate approves defense policy bill, baiting veto

Budget

White House: Shutdown would harm military pay and national security

About 1.3 million active-duty troops could see paychecks delayed by a government shutdown.
Rapidly approaching government shutdown has Congress in crisis mode

The Senate is preparing its own bipartisan plan for a stopgap measure to buy some time and keep offices funded past Saturday’s deadline.
The federal government is headed into a shutdown. What happens next?

While some government entities will be exempt — Social Security checks, for example, will still go out — other functions will be severely curtailed.
Government shutdowns become more lengthy, costly, history shows

For those who remember, there was a time when shutdowns spanned less than a week, sometimes just a few hours, if they even happened at all.