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Time to stop play-acting and spit out the tea 是时候停止演戏，摒弃茶党思维了 The Republicans are not being serious about the deficit 共和党人没有认真对待赤字问题 THIRTY billion dollars is a lot of money for anyone except

美国国家公共电台 NPR House Passes Funding Extension After Trump Says 'I'd Love To See A Shutdown'

AILSA CHANG, HOST: We are once again days away from a potential government shutdown. Now on Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats say they think they can strike a deal to avoid that scenario. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MITCH MCCONNELL: I'm o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Open Or Closed? Here's What Happens In A Partial Government Shutdown

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Unless there's a last-minute agreement, the federal government is about to partially shut down. Funding for most agencies expires at midnight tonight Eastern Time. So what exactly does that mean? NPR's Brian Naylor is here to tel

美国国家公共电台 NPR Congress Passes $1.3 Trillion Government Funding Bill, Averts Shutdown

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Congress is less than three days away from another government shutdown deadline, and they have just released a $1.3 trillion bill that's more than 2,000 pages. There's only one problem. Nobody seems to know how they'll rush the leg

Americans Brace for Government Shutdown

Anxiety(焦虑渴望) is filling the air in Washington D.C., as the clock ticks closer to a federal government shutdown with no budget approval. Lawmakers continued the debate Friday, leaving tourists in the nation's capital wondering whether it will

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Washington Week: Focus on Potential Federal Shutdown 华盛顿本周聚焦政府关门问题 WASHINGTON Once again, the U.S. government faces a potential shutdown driven by a politically-divided Congress unable to agree on federal funding. Later this

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Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban told thousands of supporters Monday night they would continue their campaign until they win or lose, placing no time limit upon the shutdown. This Shutdown Bangkok will go on until we know whether we have won or lost.

2007年VOA标准英语-US Envoy Hopes to Make Up for Lost Time in N. K

By Kurt Achin Seoul 19 June 2007 Christopher Hill, Washington's chief envoy to the North Korean nuclear negotiations, says steps toward ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs should be speeded up to compensate for lost time. VOA's Kurt Achin rep

美众院拒为奥巴马医改拨款

美众院拒为奥巴马医改拨款 WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a stopgap spending bill that strips out funding for President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, se

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Employees Return To Work, But Fears Of Another Shutdown Loom

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago today, a damaged oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., caused what was then the largest oil spill in the history of the United States. The public reaction helped to shape the modern environmental moveme

美国国家公共电台 NPR Some Mortgage Deals Are In Limbo As Government Shutdown Drags On

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Day 21 of the partial federal government shutdown, and it's causing big financial concerns for hundreds of thousands of people who aren't getting paychecks today. Here's one example. Some furloughed workers can't refinance t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Financially Struggling Government Workers Are Caught Up In Shutdown

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We are now into day seven of a partial shutdown of the federal government. Government employees are still getting paid for work they did before the shutdown, but the checks will soon be stopping. Among the 800,000 people to be aff

美国国家公共电台 NPR How The Partial Government Shutdown Could Affect You

NOEL KING, HOST: This morning, a partial government shutdown continues. It started on Saturday after lawmakers failed to agree on a set of spending bills. The main sticking point was President Trump's demand for $5 billion for border wall funding. Th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Furloughed Workers In Hard-Hit Community Organize Potluck During Shutdown

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: We're going to turn now to the partial federal government shutdown, which is now the longest in history as we've entered day 22. We're going to hear from voices across the country during the program today about how the shutdown

美国国家公共电台 NPR Shutdown Makes Government Websites More Vulnerable To Hackers, Experts Say

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Hackers love to try to breach U.S. computer systems. This now may be easier than ever before. With so many IT and cybersecurity workers furloughed by the shutdown, security professionals say government websites are more vul

美国国家公共电台 NPR Child Care: 1 More Way Some Federal Workers Struggle During Shutdown

DAVID GREENE, HOST: In this country, a partial government shutdown goes on. And it's affecting hundreds of thousands of federal workers and contractors across the U.S. It's also affecting some of their kids. That's because many child care centers ins

美国国家公共电台 NPR Not Expecting Back Pay, Government Contractors Collect Unemployment, Dip Into Savings

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Several kinds of people are directly affected by the partial government shutdown. There are federal workers who are furloughed, not being paid. There are federal workers who must work and are also not being paid. They may get bac

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Shutdown Crawls On, Artists And Nonprofits Fear For Their 'Fragile Industry'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The partial government shutdown is making more people anxious every day, including those in the arts. Theaters, dance companies, symphony orchestras, nonprofit arts organizations worry about the impact on themselves and their audie

美国国家公共电台 NPR Not Out To Lunch: Businesses That Rely On Federal Workers Suffer The Shutdown

Not Out To Lunch: Businesses That Rely On Federal Workers Suffer The Shutdown MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to talk a bit more about the partial shutdown of the federal government, which is entering its third week. We've talked earlier this hour a

美国有线新闻 CNN 美政府关门僵局持续 民共两党互相指责

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: The U.S. government has been partially shutdown for almost two weeks. A down the middle explanation of what that means and what people are saying about it, our first subjects today on CNN 10. I'm Carl Azuz. Since 1976 the Fe