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Passage by the Senate would send the legislation to President Joe Biden for his signature, well before the midnight Friday deadline when the current funding for the government expires. A group of Republican lawmakers led by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas sought a simple-majority vote on an amendment that would prohibit funding for the coronavirus vaccine and testing mandates imposed by the Biden administration.

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Republicans and Democrats showed no signs of being able to resolve the larger impasse blocking full year appropriations bills. House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro called on Republicans to make a full-year funding counteroffer soon to finish work on appropriations bills.

The stopgap does not address automatic cuts to Medicare and other programs slated for January under the so-called Paygo law, despite Democratic efforts to include the provision. But in the shutdown, many parks remained open while park services like trash removal were halted. Without staff to maintain the parks, some of the nation's iconic parks suffered from overflowing garbage and damaging behavior such as illegal off-roading.

If a shutdown occurs, the tax agency might not be able to provide its normal service of verifying income and Social Security numbers. That would throw a wrench into applications for mortgages and other loan approvals as well as potentially delay loans from being processed, the CRFB said. In the shutdown, the White House promised that tax refunds would not be affected, reversing an IRS plan to halt the checks during the gap. Despite that pledge, refunds didn't go exactly as planned: "At least 26, furloughed IRS employees were recalled to work during the shutdown in preparation for tax season, but 14, did not show up to work without pay," the CRFB said.

Funding for the food stamp program — called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — is mandatory, but the government's ability to distribute the benefits to its 42 million recipients could be impacted, the CRFB said.

That's because a stopgap funding bill would be needed to authorize the Department of Agriculture to send out benefits for 30 days after the start of a shutdown. In the shutdown, the USDA avoided that issue by paying food stamp benefits early in January of If it hadn't done so before the day window expired, the agency wouldn't have been able to pay the benefits in March, according to the CRFB. Many more government agencies and programs would be halted, although it's unlikely that Americans would be aware of many of the disruptions.

Yet while Americans might not notice the halt in agency programs in the event of a shutdown, such stoppages could have very real effects. For example, "In , the Environmental Protection Agency halted site inspections for 1, different sites that included hazardous waste, drinking water, and chemical facilities," the CRFB said.

That's a related issue that has experts concerned about its potential impact on the economy, jobs and the stock market.

Democrats earlier this week attempted to pass a stopgap measure that would have funded the government through December 3 and suspended the debt limit through December But Republicans are refusing to raise or suspend the debt limit, and if that happens, the country could go into default for the first time in U.

The stopgap bill the Senate is preparing to take up on Wednesday would keep the government running through December 3, but it does not address the looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default. The Treasury Department on Tuesday estimated it would exhaust the measures allowing the U.

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