Federal Government Shutdown

Federal workers across the nation are taking a temporary sigh of relief as the government reopens for three weeks during negotiations over security along…

Donna Rogers hasn’t received a paycheck in weeks. An Army veteran who works at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) office in St. Louis, she’s among…

More than 240,000 guestworkers, many from Mexico, work on U.S. farms for several months each year as a part of the federal H-2A visa program. This year,...

Military veterans who work for the federal government are among the federal employees facing the loss of their first January paychecks due to the partial…

Even breweries are feeling the pinch of the partial federal government shutdown. “The regulating body that we have to submit all of our labels to, to...

Federal employees throughout metro St. Louis are feeling the brunt of the partial government shutdown two weeks in, as agencies and departments have…

This article was originally publishing in January, 2018. We republished it because it answers some questions about what a partial government shut down…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 23, 2013: U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill predicts that Congress will reach a budget agreement in…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 17, 2013: Since President Barack Obama signed legislation reopening the federal government and…

National Parks and other federally-run recreation sites in Missouri are open again, now that the partial government shutdown is over.Those sites include…