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18 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 2, 2026.
The stopgap holds agencies at current spending levels through Dec. 11 and heads to President Trump's desk. Nineteen Republicans and 29 Democrats voted against it.
Senators cleared a bipartisan stopgap through Dec. 11 before leaving for a five-week recess, but the House passed its own partisan version — and one grant-rule provision could cost Republican votes.
WatchSusan Collins and Patty Murray released the text of a stopgap Sunday that funds most federal agencies at current levels through the second week of December. It strips out $1 billion for 'Trump-class' battleships and blocks money from being shifted to Border Patrol.
With government funding set to lapse Sept. 30 and Speaker Mike Johnson sending the House home without a defense bill, Republicans fear another Democratic opening just weeks before the November elections.
The funding crisis threatens to renew airport chaos as lawmakers remain divided over ending the two-month Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
The record-long funding lapse has left tens of thousands of DHS employees in financial limbo, with Republicans now pursuing a reconciliation bill to end the standoff.
Speaker Mike Johnson's deal to fund DHS without immigration enforcement money stalls amid opposition from conservative Republicans.
The president directed the Department of Homeland Security to resume compensating TSA officers beginning Monday, but the congressional impasse between House Republicans and Senate Democrats over a DHS funding bill remained unresolved.
Travelers frustrated by long security lines may not see immediate relief as Transportation Security Administration officers begin receiving pay again Monday after working without wages for over a month.
With 3,450 TSA officers calling out on a single day and airports in chaos, Trump signed an executive order to pay workers using unspent funds — but Congress remains deadlocked over how to reopen the department.
Transportation Security Administration workers begin receiving pay again after more than a month without wages during partial government shutdown.
WatchWith no deal in sight after the House passed a bill the Senate calls dead on arrival, the standoff over immigration agency funding has shattered the record for the longest government shutdown in American history, leaving airports reeling.
WatchSpeaker Mike Johnson proposed a 60-day stopgap to fund ICE and border patrol — a plan Senate Democrats declared dead on arrival — as TSA call-outs hit a record 11.83% and 510 officers have quit.
President announces emergency order to pay Transportation Security Administration agents as Department of Homeland Security funding talks falter and airport lines grow.
Airline cuts off special airport perks for members of Congress as government failure to pay TSA workers creates nationwide travel chaos.
Border czar Tom Homan confirms deployment as partial DHS shutdown enters sixth week, leaving hundreds of TSA officers unpaid and airports in chaos.
Unpaid TSA workers are walking off the job at record rates — with callout spikes above 50% at some airports — as a DHS funding stalemate between Congress and the White House enters its fifth week with no end in sight.
Houston Hobby lost 55% of its officers during spring break travel season.