Government Shutdown 2025 March 8. After a tumultuous week of negotiations on multiple iterations of a bill to avert a government shutdown, congress passed legislation to extend funding for the federal. Unfortunately, the government appears to be heading towards a potential shutdown due to a few extreme republicans on the fringes, stopping the function of congress, and preventing us.

The house has joined the senate in recessing without having addressed either regular spending bills or another temporary funding measure, leaving. A government shutdown happens when congress doesn’t pass legislation either temporarily or more permanently funding the government, and such a measure isn’t signed by.