{"id":86174,"date":"2025-09-01T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=86174"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:25:03","slug":"us-government-shutdown-looms-as-congress-returns-after-monthlong-august-recess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/us-government-shutdown-looms-as-congress-returns-after-monthlong-august-recess\/","title":{"rendered":"US government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cbig beautiful bill\u201d of tax and spending cuts without a single Democratic vote. But as they return to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, they will have to find a way to work with Democrats \u2014 or around them \u2014 as a government shutdown looms.<\/p>\n<p>The annual spending battle will dominate the September agenda, along with a possible effort by Senate Republicans to change their chamber\u2019s rules to thwart Democratic stalling tactics on nominations. The Senate is also debating whether to move forward on legislation that would slap steep tariffs on some of Russia\u2019s trading partners as the US pressures Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In the House, Republicans will continue their investigations of former President Joe Biden while Speaker Mike Johnson navigates a split in his conference over whether the Trump administration should release more files in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A look at what Congress will be doing as lawmakers return from the August break:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cbig beautiful bill\u201d of tax and spending cuts without a single Democratic vote. But as they return to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, they will have to find a way to work with Democrats \u2014 or around them &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":86187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86189,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86174\/revisions\/86189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}