Government Shutdown 2024 March 1. Congress is gearing up to vote in the coming days on a bipartisan deal to temporarily avoid a shutdown. On january 18, both the u.s.

The house has joined the senate in recessing without having addressed either regular spending bills or another temporary funding measure, leaving. Known as a continuing resolution (cr), the bill extends last fiscal year’s spending levels until march 1 for the departments of energy, transportation, agriculture, veterans affairs and military housing, and the.