Tag: congress budget shutdown spending
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White House may nix pay for furloughed workers
WASHINGTON — An untested legal theory that the White House doesn’t need to pay furloughed workers once the partial shutdown ends shook up Capitol Hill on Tuesday, while Democrats appeared emboldened in their demands to renew expiring health care subsidies. A draft memo from the Office of Management and Budget’s top lawyer arguing that the…
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Congressional leaders come out with 6 spending bills in a drive to avoid a partial shutdown
Congressional leaders have come out with a package of six bills setting full-year spending levels for some federal agencies





