Chicago federal employees brace for government shutdown impact
The 2025 government shutdown impact workers in Chicago at federal agencies, courts, airports and more.
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The 2025 government shutdown impact workers in Chicago at federal agencies, courts, airports and more.
Federal employees in Chicago are anxiously awaiting to hear whether the 2025 government shutdown will affect them directly, placing them on furlough and denying them their paychecks.
Early impacts of the 2025 government shutdown could be felt at Chicago O'Hare and Midway airports, as TSA workers and air traffic controllers are set to be affected.
The 2025 government shutdown began at midnight after Congress was unable to pass a budget bill to continue funding the federal government.
Rep. Delia Ramirez joined CBS News Chicago to discuss the government shutdown.
The senate voted on one last-ditch temporary funding measure, but it did not pass. The White House is also threatening mass firings at federal agencies if no deal is reached.
If Congress cannot approve a spending bill, the 2025 federal government shutdown will start at midnight.
Congress returns this week from its August recess staring down a deadline to fund the government and avert a possible shutdown, plus drama over the Epstein files, crime crackdowns and a lengthy to-do list plagued by tension and partisan disagreements.
The Senate on Friday passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.
The president is threatening a 200% retaliatory tariff on alcohol from Europe. If the EU doesn't remove the one on American whiskey, wine sellers are finding it hard to swallow.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he will vote to prevent the shutdown.
CBS News Chicago checked in with Momentum Coffee owner Nikki Bravo on Wednesday to see how she was doing with the uncertainty in the market.
Millions in local funding could be in jeopardy, and many Chicago area nonprofits were anxiously waiting late Wednesday for some clarity on the future of their federal grants.
The Democrat-controlled senate easily passed a bipartisan temporary spending bill 85 to 11 that will fund the government through mid-March.
The last-minute scrambling comes after the original deal both parties had agreed to went down in flames because of opposition from Trump and his close ally Elon Musk.
A shutdown would come at a high cost to federal workers just before the holidays. The Pentagon says active military personnel could go without a paycheck and so would TSA agents.
House Republicans are scrambling with just hours left to prevent a government shutdown. A last-ditch vote on a GOP measure backed by President-elect Donald Trump failed Thursday evening.
Lawmakers in the U.S. House have a little more than 24 hours to pass a government spending bill.
There are 4,207 bridges in the U.S. that allow ships to pass under them. Of those, only 36% are described as having functional pier protection.
The prohibition was one of many side issues included in the mammoth $1.2 trillion package to fund the government through September.
The package fully funds the government through September 2024.
The Senate passed a bill overnight to fund the government for the rest of the year. The bill now heads to President Biden's desk where the White House says he is expected to sign it Saturday.
The shutdown could impact several departments, including Defense, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services.
Congress is trying to beat a Friday night deadline to fund the government.
The four government agencies that could close after Friday would get another week of funding including the Departments of Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development.
