
What’s at risk if Congress doesn’t fund the government by Friday’s deadline
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Facing intense pressure over the threat of a shutdown in less than two days, lawmakers are racing to push through a government funding plan by Friday’s midnight deadline.
Facing intense pressure over the threat of a shutdown in less than two days, lawmakers are racing to push through a government funding plan by Friday’s midnight deadline. Lawmakers last passed a stopgap funding bill in December, averting a shutdown at the time. That measure, signed by then-President Joe Biden, extended funding to mid-March. If the government does shut down starting Saturday, it would not be the first one for President Donald Trump. He presided over the longest government shutdown in four decades during his first term. The president placed the blame for the current potential government shutdown on congressional Democrats. “If there’s a shut down, it’s only going to be because of Democrats, and they would really be taking away a lot from our country, and from the people of our country,” Trump said in remarks from the Oval Office Thursday. Here’s what Americans could soon face if Congress doesn’t approve a government funding bill by midnight on Friday:

Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











