It's not a certainty that the IRS will stay open through tax season: While Congress passed a bill, signed by the President, to end the shutdown, funding for the government has only been guaranteed for three weeks.
For now, Democrats were happy to end a government shutdown, fund the Children's Health Insurance Program for six years, and functionally not give up any of their leverage.
In the mid-April 2011 federal spending agreement that averted a possible government shutdown, funding for the position was indeed eliminated (as were three other "czar" roles, most of which were similarly vacant).
Today, the House and Senate passed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that averts a government shutdown and funds the government for the next year.
The bill to end the shutdown, which funds government operations through Feb. 8 and also includes a six-year reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program, did not move through budget reconciliation, the parliamentary procedure that circumvents filibusters in the Senate.
When the global demand dropped in August 2007, Northern Rock became vulnerable to a shutdown in funds.
The Republican-led House of Representatives followed the US Senate in voting for a bill Thursday to avert federal government shutdown when funding runs out next week.
Boehner referred, as he has in the past, to the ill-fated 2013 shutdown over funding of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a.a
Two weeks into the US government's partial shutdown, new funding is being provided to some services to reopen closed programs, while other agencies that were at first spared now face closure.
The president is embroiled in an increasingly nasty public fight with congressional Democrats as a partial government shutdown over funding for his proposed border wall reached the four-week mark Friday.
