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US federal government shutdowns

April 2026

  • Federal agents during an immigration raid in Newark, New Jersey.

    Trump signs bipartisan bill ending longest-ever shutdown of DHS

  • Printed copies of the Jeffrey Epstein files in Miami, in February.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    Former inspector general urges audit of Epstein files release be conducted ‘without undue influence’ – as it happened

March 2026

  • President Donald Trump speaks as commerce secretary Howard Lutnick looks after signing an executive order at the White House.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    Democrats and voting rights advocates vow to fight Trump’s latest order: ‘massive and unconstitutional suppression effort’ – as it happened

  • Passengers wait in a TSA security checkpoint queue that stretches through an airport in Baltimore, Maryland.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    White House blames Democrats for record-breaking DHS shutdown after House Republicans reject Senate’s compromise bill – as it happened

February 2026

  • Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem attends the State of the Union address on Tuesday.

    Kristi Noem blames Democrats for shutdown holding up $625m in World Cup funding

  • The New York/New Jersey World Cup 2026 logo in Times Square, New York City.

    World Cup host cities are ‘running out of time’ with $625m in funding held up by DHS shutdown

  • people shop in the produce section of a grocery store

    US economic growth slowed in fourth quarter of 2025 amid government shutdown

  • The DHS was the recipient of enormous funds from last year’s budget bill.

    Limited government shutdown likely to linger for at least 10 days as Congress takes break

21 November 2025

  • a man being arrested by masked agents

    Tens of thousands of people were detained and deported during US government shutdown

    As most government business halted during the shutdown, immigration agents continued their raids

14 November 2025

  • People gathered at Glacier Point at Yosemite national park on 25 October 2025.

    National parks facing ‘nightmare’ under Trump, warns ex-director of service

  • Robert Reich

    double quotation markRepublicans are regimented. Democrats are undisciplined. Just look at the shutdown

    Robert Reich

13 November 2025

  • Defense secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the 4th annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit at Purdue University Fort Wayne on 12 November.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    Hegseth announces military operation to remove ‘narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere’– as it happened

  • Priya Fielding-Singh

    double quotation markFood insecurity leaves long-term scars. The Snap cuts are no exception

    Priya Fielding-Singh
  • a building covered by plants

    Forty-three days: how the US shutdown unfolded in key moments

  • The compromise sets the stage for government operations to return to normal

    House passes bill to end the longest US government shutdown – video

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12 November 2025

  • Man gives press conference

    Democrats sift through shutdown’s ashes after resistance finally breached

  • President Donald Trump shows the signed bill to re-open the federal government on 12 November.

    Trump signs funding bill to end longest US government shutdown

  • The U.S. Capitol, pictured during sunset on 12 November in Washington, DC.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    House passes bill to reopen government as new Epstein revelations roil US politics – as it happened

  • a man in a suit speaks

    US House begins voting on bill that could end longest ever government shutdown

11 November 2025

  • People receive free food boxes at a large-scale food distribution in response to the federal government shutdown and Snap food benefits delays, on 11 November in Los Angeles.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    US supreme court extends pause on Trump administration paying full November Snap benefits – as it happened

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