Congress is once again locked in a battle to prevent the government from entering a partial shutdown over a lack of funding — and some lawmakers are trying to sneak in a last minute Christmas bonus. For more than a decade, funding bills passed by Congress have included language preventing …
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The House voted on Wednesday on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded and avoid a shutdown at the end of the month, just weeks before the November election. The vote failed, with Republicans striking down their own bill to keep the government open. The bill going down 202-220 …
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The August recess has ended, and Congress has less than a month to pass legislation to fund the federal government or plunge the nation into a shutdown. It’s already getting ugly. On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump demanded that “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances …
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pulled an end run around the far-right wing of his party, striking a deal with Democrats to pass a clean spending bill and avert a government shutdown, and GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz is so mad about it he wants McCarthy ousted as speaker. “I do intend …
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In a rare moment of unity, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she would support Rep. Matt Gaetz’s efforts to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his leadership position. “It’s not up to Democrats to save Republicans from themselves,” the New York congresswoman said when Jake Tapper asked if she would vote …
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Chaos has been the norm in Congress for some time now, but this week a truly noisome stench is looming over the Capitol as Republicans prepare to shut down the government. At its core, a shutdown is a failure of Congress to accomplish its most essential legislative task: funding the …
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