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Congress is on recess until December 1, and when it returns, the Senate will have 15 working days and the House just 12 before the end of the year.

On November 5, CMS announced that all 50 states submitted applications for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, created to help states improve healthcare access, quality,

On November 9, eight senators in the Democratic caucus agreed to vote for cloture on H.R. 5371, starting the sequence of events that ended the longest government shutdown in American history

On November 3, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers released a “statement of principles” outlining a potential compromise to extend Obamacare subsidies, the main sticking point in the ongoing

As the Federal government shutdown surpasses the four-week mark, uncertainty looms over both essential services and funding.

The Federal government has now been shut down for 23 days, becoming the longest “full” shutdown, approaching the 35-day “partial” government shutdown in President Trump’s first term for longest

While the Federal government shutdown stretches into its third week, legislation continues to move in state legislatures that are still in session or recently adjourned.

The Federal government shutdown, now in its ninth day, shows no tangible signs of abatement, with the House out of session this week and the Senate unable to get enough votes to pass a funding

At midnight on September 30, the Federal government shut down for the first time since 2019.

On September 19, the House passed the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026 in a 217-212 vote – mainly along parting lines – to avert the shutdown slated for September 30 and