Federal Shutdown 2013
For the first time in more than 17 years, the federal government is shut down after Congress was unable to reach a deadline in time to keep the government funded. Get the latest news and information about the shutdown and its impact in our live blog.
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A bill to provide back pay for furloughed workers has hit a snag in the Senate. Read the full story here.
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The service academy football teams are preparing to play this weekend's
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by WTOP NewsContractors' fate uncertain even as DoD civilian workers return from furloughs.
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So, I am furloughed from my job but contractors in my agency are still working. This whole excepted/not excepted deal is a joke. If you are going to shutdown the government (which should never happen) - then shutdown everything!! That way peopl would truly understand what a shutdown means and would force our congress and President to act. -
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Virginia Del. Bob Marshall, R-Manassas, doesn't want to see federal workers who live in Virginia end up in court for debt collections because of the government shutdown, so he will propose legislation to give feds a break. -
WTOP's Michelle Basch takes a close look at how difficult a furlough is on one family.
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by WTOPNow in its second week, the partial government shutdown has taken its toll on the White House, where about 3 of 4 staffers have been furloughed, barred even from checking the BlackBerrys they usually clutch like worry beads.Of the 1,701 advisers, assistants, number-crunchers, butlers, chefs and landscapers who work at the White House on a normal day, fewer than 450 are on duty, according to President Barack Obama's budget office. The rest fall under an unfortunate label that has kept hundreds of thousands of federal workers home: "non-essential." -
When national events spiral out of control, it is not uncommon for people to reach out to their member of Congress. But good luck with that during the government shutdown.
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The government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others.Check out the impact: http://www.wtop.com/959/3474719/Shutdown-impact-Defense-workers-return-to-work
Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Catherine Threat watches students as they arrive at Courtenay Elementary Language Arts Center in Chicago. The Wisconsin veteran hasn't let the federal shutdown shut her down. Threat returned from active duty in Afghanistan in July. Since then, she's been in the Army Reserve and working as a civilian at Fort McCoy in central Wisconsin, until last week when she was furloughed. Rather than sitting around, Threat decided to volunteer for a veteran patrol for the Chicago Public Schools "safe passage" program. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)by WTOP -
In a protest planned for Friday morning, thousands of truckers promise to clog the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway.They are upset with Congress.
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More rhetoric from both sides today but no progress. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! I see the House now is considering passing a bill to make sure "essential" employees are paid on time "because they have bills to pay". SO DO THOSE OF US NOT CONSIDERED "ESSENTIAL"!! By the way, those deemed "essential" in my organization were mostly all SES's!! So the SES's might get paid because they have bills to pay while the GS-9 admin person sits at home with no pay or apparently bills to pay?!?! I agree with a previous comment - we all need to show up on Congress's doorstep and protest!!
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FEEA (The Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund) is accepting donations to help furloughed feds. Find out more at www.feea.org.
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Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown as public esteem sinks for all players in the impasse, President Barack Obama among them, according to a new poll.
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The loss of salaries for federal workers will be felt hardest in Virginia, according to a new study by WalletHub.com, a personal finance social network.Read more:
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A $1.8 million study of a proposed light rail extension to Naval Station Norfolk has been suspended because of the partial federal government shutdown.
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by WTOPRestaurants, bars and shops have started offering discounts to federal workers, while some have posted surcharges for members of Congress brazen enough to admit who they are. -
by WTOPThe federal government shutdown could leave America's craft beer brewers with a serious hangover.The shutdown has closed an obscure agency that quietly approves new breweries, recipes and labels. -
Just inside the front gates of Georgetown University sits a sight one may expect to find across town -- on a smaller scale. It's a traveling version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial itself is shut down.
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About 3.8 million veterans will not receive disability compensation next month if the partial government shutdown continues into late October, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki says. Some 315,000 veterans and 202,000 surviving spouses and dependents will see pension payments stopped.Shinseki is spelling out some of the dire consequences of a longer-term shutdown in testimony Wednesday for the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.
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Day 9
President Barack Obama is making plans to talk with Republican lawmakers at the White House in the coming days as pressure builds on both sides to resolve their deadlock over the federal debt limit and the partial government shutdown.With the shutdown in its ninth day Wednesday and a potential economy-shaking federal default edging ever closer, neither side was revealing clear signs of bending. -
There's no sense of urgency because the politicians are completely NOT IMPACTED by the shutdown. Maybe if the Secret Service was furloughed, and security at the Capital was eliminated. Until the Three Stooges (Obama, Reid, Boehner) suffer, nothing will change. Think anyone in congress who runs again in their gerrymandered districts won't be reelected?
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No D.C. Lottery payouts during the shutdown. Read the full story here. -
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This is ridiculous. These millionaire cry babies don't understand the impact their ridiculousness is having on real people. Now some of them might go home until Monday afternoon? How about staying and get your job done? I'm running out of money to even put food on the table and these clowns are traveling? Do your work!! Let me work!!
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