Chief budget negotiators in the U.S. Congress said Tuesday that they have struck a two-year deal to avoid a government shutdown on Jan. 15.
Federal employees were furloughed for a combined total of 6.6 million days during the 16-day partial federal government shutdown starting Oct. 1, the most number in all government shutdowns of the country, the White House said Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said the partial federal government shutdown has damaged the country's image abroad, warning politicians to avoid another such shutdown.
A partial U.S. government shutdown this month has cut 0.25 percentage point off the fourth-quarter economic growth and cost the country 120,000 jobs in October, Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said on Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said he is willing to discuss the government budget with Republicans to end the partial government shutdown.
U.S. Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Saturday unanimously approved a bill to pay back about 800,000 furloughed government workers once the current partial government shutdown ends.
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats urged Republicans on Thursday to reopen the federal government and not to blend shutdown with debt ceiling.
U.S. stocks rebounded Tuesday from Monday' s selloff, seemingly to be unmoved by what is the first partial U.S. government shutdown in 17 years.
A White House meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders on Wednesday afternoon ended with finger pointing but little sign of progress toward ending the government shutdown.
A White House meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders on Wednesday afternoon ended with finger pointing but little sign of progress toward ending the government shutdown.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday urged the Senate to take action in a timely manner and pass a stopgap government funding bill in order to avert the first partial government shutdown since 1996.
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