{"id":28842,"date":"2024-12-20T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/the-us-government-could-shut-down-heres-what-to-know\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:52:20","slug":"the-us-government-could-shut-down-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/the-us-government-could-shut-down-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The US government could shut down. Here\u2019s what to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If lawmakers don\u2019t secure a spending deal before Friday midnight, all nonessential government functions will pause<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/19\/what-is-the-debt-ceiling\">What is the US debt ceiling?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2024\/dec\/20\/trump-government-shutdown-us-politics-latest-updates\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A government shutdown looms after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a> failed on Thursday to pass a pared-down spending bill. The potential shutdown could disrupt Christmas travel and deliver a blow to the US economy just a month before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> returns to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers face a last-minute scramble to secure a new deal before the Friday midnight deadline \u2013 or all nonessential government functions will pause.<\/p>\n<p>A 21-day partial closure in 1995 over a dispute about spending cuts between President Bill Clinton and the Republican speaker, Newt Gingrich, that is widely seen as setting the tone for later partisan congressional struggles<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, when the government was partially closed for 16 days after another Republican-led Congress tried to use budget negotiations to defund Barack Obama\u2019s signature Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare<\/p>\n<p>A 34-day shutdown, the longest on record, lasting from December 2018 until January 2019, when Trump refused to sign any appropriations bill that did not include $5.7bn funding for a wall along the US border with Mexico. The closure damaged Trump\u2019s poll ratings<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/20\/federal-government-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If lawmakers don\u2019t secure a spending deal before Friday midnight, all nonessential government functions will pause What is the US debt ceiling? US politics \u2013 live updates A government shutdown looms after Republicans in Congress failed on Thursday to pass a pared-down spending bill. The potential shutdown could disrupt Christmas travel and deliver a blow &#8230; <a title=\"The US government could shut down. Here\u2019s what to know\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/the-us-government-could-shut-down-heres-what-to-know\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The US government could shut down. Here\u2019s what to know\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}