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Federal agencies, parks, museums and monuments began to reopen Thursday morning, after a chastened Congress ended a bitter funding standoff that triggered a 16-day government closure.
Federal agencies, parks, museums, monuments and now the National Zoo reopen after a chastened Congress ends a bitter funding standoff that triggered a 16-day government closure and drove the nation toward the brink of default.
The measure, introduced Tuesday by Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va)., would automatically keep all of the federal government running in the case of a future funding standoff — with the exceptions of the legislative branch and the Executive Office of the President.
As things stand now, a high-stakes government funding standoff is looming this summer and fall.
But WIC also may have to stop its operations if the funding standoff drags on through February.
The legislation sets a new deadline of Dec. 21 for Trump and Democrats to resolve their standoff over funding for the wall, which is holding up action on spending bills to fund the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies.
Currently the president and Democratic leaders are at a standoff over funding for the wall, which has shut down 25% of the government for 20 days.
Obama and Republicans are far apart on how to resolve a standoff over funding the government past a Sept. 30 deadline and on raising the federal debt limit, which will probably have to be done in October or November.
Republican and Democratic Members alike are becoming increasingly critical of the president and are demanding the White House immediately step up its role in the standoff over funding the government.
It was public sentiment, Pelosi says, that convinced her President Trump would back down in the standoff over funding a border wall that partially shut down the government for 35 days earlier this year.
The standoff over funding for a border wall, which led to the 35-day partial government shutdown and threatens a second, is a more telling indicator of the mood in Washington than calls for bipartisan cooperation.
