Shutdown countdown: US Congress has four days to fund government
By Moira Warburton, David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday rejected a stopgap funding bill advancing in the Senate, bringing Washington closer to its fourth partial shutdown of the U.S. government in a decade in just four days. That would lead to the furlough of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and the suspension of a wide range of government services, from economic data releases […]