A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools in areas from special education to civil rights enforcement to after-school programs. The Education Department had about 4,100 employees when Trump took…
As the lights go out in Washington, it’s not clear who wins this showdown. The United States government has gone dark – again. At 12:01am on Wednesday morning, Congress missed the deadline to pass a stopgap funding bill. Agencies began powering down. Federal workers were told not to come in. And the political blamegame in…
The US government is headed towards a formal shutdown, with last ditch efforts to pass a bill crafted by Republicans as a short-term measure to fund the government through November 21 failed. The Senate vote was 55 to 45 on Tuesday evening, while the Republicans need at least 60 votes to ensure the passage of…
US President Donald Trump on Friday predicted that the government might shut down, citing a stalemate between his party and Democrats. “We’ll continue to talk to the Democrats, but I think you could very well end up with a closed country for a period of time,” Trump said in the Oval Office. US President Donald…