Shutdown Hits Record With No End in Sight: Congress Tracker

Congress just beat a record, but it’s not one to celebrate.

As of today, funding for every government agency has lapsed for 17 days and counting — marking the longest full government-wide shutdown in US history. And lawmakers are bracing for the long haul.

The country is “barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats drop their demands,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned this week. Democrats have moved no closer to folding, though, and are refusing to advance a clean spending stopgap without health-care assurances.

While longer shutdowns took place in fiscal 1996 and 2019, those ...