US shutdown News
US economy expects $8 billion to be recovered as the government reopens and employees receive back pay.
The agreement Trump signed on Friday that temporarily reopened the government does not provide any new money for the wall.
The partial government shutdown - at 35 days the longest in U.S. history - led to some 800,000 federal workers going unpaid, including 380,000 furloughed workers.
President Donald Trump on Friday signed the bill ending the longest government shutdown in US history.
Transportation Security Administration workers are one of the lowest paid employees and have been working without pay since the shutdown began on December 22.
The ceremony scheduled for January 31 has been postponed by NASA, Administrator Jim Bridenstine said, until the agency`s employees start working again.
Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump and is also a campaign adviser, made the remarks earlier this week to digital news network.
The partial shutdown that triggered over Donald Trump's demand to build wall across the US-Mexico border is now strecthed to the 33rd day.
The Justice Department also asked courts to temporarily put on hold some cases in which the federal government was a party until the shutdown ended.
President Donald Trump has said he will make a "major" announcement Saturday on the ongoing federal government shutdown and the humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border.
Over 95 per cent of the space agency`s employees have been furloughed due to Trump's partial shutdown.
The federal freeze has put the US at a significant risk for both short and long-term cyberattacks.
The lunches would normally cost between $8 and $10 each, but they were being served free to any and all federal workers who showed up.
The standoff was triggered by Trump`s demand for $5.7 billion to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, which Democrats oppose.
A 1995-1996 shutdown over a funding battle between Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich lasted 21 days.
The partial government shutdown, which is the longest ever, has left more than 800,000 federal government workers out of work across the key departments.
The shutdown has impacted roughly a quarter of the federal government and hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
"I am in the White House waiting for you!" Trump told the Democrats through his Twitter account and threatened that the shutdown could continue for a long time if there is no agreement.
US President Donald Trump and Congress have been at loggerheads over his demand to include in the budget $5.7 billion funding for building a wall along the Mexico border.
Hitting out at mediapersons in the room, Trump said, "You write about nonsense... You don't report it because you're fake news... You don't want to tell the story about what's going on at the border."
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