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Will a Government Shutdown Affect Your Flight?
SOURCE: USA TODAY, 1/31

Just months after Congress averted the last shutdown, lawmakers hit another wall at midnight on Jan. 31 after failing to pass the full slate of funding bills by the Jan. 30 deadline.

On Friday, the Senate approved a continuing resolution to keep Department of Homeland Security funded for two more weeks while the rest of the government gets full-year funding, but that deal now waits in the House, which is in recess and won’t vote until Monday at the earliest. If the House rejects the plan or delays action, the shutdown could stretch beyond the weekend, though most appropriators still expect a relatively short closure given the bipartisan momentum before the deadline.

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