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Federal budget plans still in limbo as Memorial Day approaches
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of May 19, 2025.
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.
By Lisa Mascaro
GOP, Dems clash on multiyear munitions buys as shutdown looms
A niche appropriations debate on multiyear munitions buys has ballooned into one of the numerous partisan standoffs over the defense spending bill.
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.
House GOP plans to pass defense budget fail again as shutdown looms
The $826-billion GOP bill to fund the Defense Department faces opposition from all House Democrats and a handful of key Republican lawmakers.
Medical care, child care: How shutdown could affect military families
Inpatient care and acute and emergency outpatient care in DoD medical facilities would be immune from a shutdown.
By Karen Jowers
Capitol Hill dysfunction threatens key defense initiatives
Congress' dysfunction is taking its toll on national security as a government shutdown looms and hundreds of officers can't take their posts.
McCarthy running out of options to stop shutdown as conservatives balk
He plans to hold a vote on a Department of Defense spending bill on Wednesday, then the stopgap funding measure the next day.
By Lisa Mascaro