Podcast: Private Fund Regulatory Update: Post-U.S. Government Shutdown
III-39 - 2nd Anniversary Special Episode
Podcast: Keeping Up with Recent Changes and Trends in Private Fund Regulation
Throughout July, the Senate Committee on Appropriations ramped up their advancement of fiscal year (FY) 2026 appropriations bills, advancing eight of their 12 appropriations bills out of the full committee. In the lower...more
The Minnesota Legislature adjourned the 2025 Regular Session on Monday night, but a special session looms on the horizon as legislators failed to pass a complete budget. Despite meeting through the weekend and on Monday,...more
RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES - Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance The Federal Election Commission (FEC) will soon lose its ability to enforce and regulate campaign finance laws, NOTUS reported...more
The Government Accountability Office has agreed to investigate recent CFPB moves to fire more than 1,400 employees and the impact it and other agency actions have had on the bureau’s ability to operate....more
Current news on the government efficiency and reform front concerns the near-miss of a government shutdown last week (the budget would have lapsed at midnight on March 14, 2025). One reason some cited against allowing a...more
WHAT: The March 14 funding deadline is fast approaching, and it is increasingly likely that the federal government may shut down. Although the House narrowly passed a funding bill this week, the Senate has signaled that it...more
March 2025: Reducing the Negative Impacts of a Government Shutdown for Federal Contractors - On top of the uncertainty introduced through the Trump administration’s shifting priorities and rapid-fire executive orders,...more
On Monday, Jan. 27, President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum (“memo”) directing all federal departments and agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or...more
On Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, the House and Senate advanced the American Relief Act, 2025 (H.R. 10545), a continuing resolution (CR) that funds the federal government until March 14, 2025. The CR also contains a temporary...more
Once again, the specter of a government shutdown looms over the federal contracting community. The federal government is set to run out of funding on December 20 due to an impasse during final negotiations over added...more
We appear to be on the precipice of another federal government shutdown. Absent a political compromise, the federal government’s funding will run out on December 21, 2024. During previous government shutdowns, government...more
Both the House and Senate are in session this week to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government beyond September 30 before leaving town to campaign ahead of the November elections....more
On Friday night, the U.S. Senate cleared the Fiscal 2024 Omnibus spending measure for President Biden’s signature. On Saturday morning, President Biden signed into law the Fiscal 2024 Minibus appropriations legislation...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Here we go again. The impending federal government shutdown may suspend many enforcement and consultation functions of the United States Department of Labor, including OSHA....more
Federal appropriations are set to expire at midnight (ET) on Saturday, September 30. Unless lawmakers agree to a spending plan before then, much of the federal government will shut down....more
Shutdown Showdown. Rather than hurtling into a federal government shutdown, this week has been more of a slow, gradual, depressing slide into the shutdown, as it became apparent this week that last-minute measures to keep the...more
As of Friday September 29, 2023, the United States Congress has yet to reach a spending agreement, as a result companies with international trade operations should prepare for a potential Federal government shutdown. The...more
The government shutdown clock strikes “zero hour” on September 30, and government contractors and federal fund recipients are once again left wondering what will happen. We have been writing these alerts and client updates...more
Overview - The United States Congress is responsible for appropriating funds for the government. This process begins through the creation of 12 appropriations bills-each determining spending levels for federal agencies and...more
The federal fiscal year for 2024 (FY 2024) begins on Oct. 1, 2023, and if appropriations bills have not been enacted before that date or a temporary funding measure – known as a continuing resolution (CR) – has not been...more
As members of Congress continue to negotiate government spending levels allotted for the next fiscal year, the United States is poised for its fourth partial government shutdown in the last decade—putting at risk the regular...more
The Cozen Lens- • Members of Congress have returned to Washington with a lengthy to-do list. Most pressing is appropriations given the potential for a government shutdown at the end of this month. Lawmakers will address...more
The federal government shutdown ended Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, with the enactment of a Continuing Resolution to fund government agencies at approximately FY19 levels through Feb. 15. That means federal employees are headed back...more
No cabinet department stands more in the center of the federal shutdown drama than the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Indeed, the issue at the shutdown's heart – President Trump's proposed border "Wall" – would be a...more
As we discussed in an earlier post, the U.S. government's partial shutdown impacts government contractors across the spectrum. What many contractors may not realize is that the shutdown has an additional impact on small...more