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Republican senators threaten to shut down government over vaccine mandate ahead of Friday deadline
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By Daniella Diaz, Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Ted Barrett, CNN The federal government faces the threat of shutting down Friday at midnight, despite an announcement from congressional leaders Thursday of an agreement to extend funding into February, because Republican senators are objecting to Presiden…
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A growing chorus of conservatives is demanding that Senate Republicans shut down the government if President Joe Biden refuses to scrap the federal coronavirus vaccine mandate.
The government runs out of funding on Friday, and Republican senators are threatening to shut down the government in order to defund President Biden's vaccine mandates.
Capitalizing on a last-minute scramble to fund the government, a group of Senate conservatives is planning to object to quick consideration of a stopgap measure to extend funding into early 2022 unles...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government could be heading for temporary shutdown, with Republicans poised to stall a must-pass funding bill in their effort to force a debate in Congress
Some Senate Republicans could force a weeklong government shutdown if they use procedural tactics to slow the passage of stopgap bill over funding for vaccine mandates.
Republicans are hoping to delay a stopgap measure to extend government funding into January unless Democrats agree to prohibit funding for President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
With federal funding set to lapse on Friday, President Biden’s vaccine-and-testing mandate for large employers has emerged as a sticking points over a stopgap spending bill.
By Daniella Diaz, Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Ted Barrett, CNN The federal government faces the threat of shutting down Friday at midnight, despite an announcement from congressional leaders Thursday of an agreement to extend funding into February, because Republican senators are objecting to Presiden…
"I don't believe that will happen.. unless somebody decides to be totally erratic," President Biden said Thursday about a potential government shutdown this weekend.
US lawmakers scrambled Thursday to avert a weekend government shutdown as Republicans stalled a bill to fund federal agencies in a bid to derail President Joe Biden's Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
WASHINGTON -- The risk of a brief U.S. government shutdown over the weekend rose Wednesday with congressional Republicans and Democrats split over a short-term spending bill needed to keep agencies running and some GOP lawmakers threatening a holdup to protest vaccine mandates.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday warned that Congress is facing a “Republican anti-vaccine shutdown” because “a few lone holdouts” are raising objections to a deal to fund the government until Feb. 18.
