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During Trump’s first term, the government shut down three times, including a 35-day closure spanning the end of 2018 into early 2019 that remains the longest in U.S. history. Raising the stakes ...

A partial government shutdown in Donald J. Trump’s first term was the longest in U.S. history. By Maggie Haberman In 2018, during Donald J. Trump’s first presidency, he said he would be ...

President-elect Donald Trump took credit for killing the government funding bill and said there will be a shutdown unless Congress takes action on the debt limit.

But that thinking runs head-on into the political reality of recent government shutdowns ... for Dreamers during the shutdown fight they stoked when Trump was in office, either.

Elon Musk joined a wave of right-wing fury against a bill to keep the government open. Now, the president-elect says he wants ...

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President-elect Trump said Friday that a government shutdown should start under President Biden’s administration and not after he is sworn in next month. “If there is going to be a shutdown of ...

The shocking demand comes as the president-elect revealed his opposition to the bipartisan spending bill, bringing the federal government another step closer to a shutdown. Trump told NBC News over ...

By David Shepardson and Krystal Hu WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -TikTok plans to shut U.S. operations of its social media ...