“The House Democrats have successfully stopped extreme MAGA Republicans from shutting down the government, crashing the economy and hurting working-class Americans all across the nation,” House Democratic LeaderHakeem Jeffriessaid, referring to Trump's “Make America G...
On the other hand, that aversion to shutting down the government also gives leverage to those in safe districts who see an opportunity to extract concessions. Some conservatives have suggested that a shutdown wouldn't be so bad. "I'm not afraid of a shutdown," Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas R...
Speaking about Congress narrowly averting the shutdown, President Obama said on Wednesday, “The good news is, it looks like the Republicans will just barely avoid shutting down the government - for the second time in two years, that's a somewhat low bar - but we should celebrate where we ...
In addition to averting a government shutdown — which had strong bipartisan support — congressional leaders attached1,500 pagesof additional spending, pork and red tape. There weresignificant expansionsof payments to medical providers and roughly $100 billion in mostly bipartisan disaster aid, which ...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Wednesday that shutting down the government would harm families and endanger services Americans rely on. "Republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will hurt hardworking Americans and create instabi...
Cliff Talks Down to the Wire - WSJ.com Congress and the White House took small steps toward breaking the budget impasse Thursday, but Democrats and Republicans grew increasingly fearful they won... J Hook,CE Lee - Fiscal Cliff, Government Finance, Government Taxation/Revenue, Economic News, Pol...
He argues that the government is on the brink of shutting down its unemployment insurance benefits despite that there are still fewer jobs in the U.S. as a result of the recession. He explains that such a move to curtail the benefits of unemployed Americans who lost their jobs not of ...
"We have a moral responsibility to address the problems we face. That means working together to cut spending and rein in government -notshutting it down," he added. In an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad reiterated the Democrat...
“If we are a lap dog for the President, that’s unfortunate and it has resulted in shutting down the government of the United States of America. That’s bad policy and, I would suggest, bad politics.” All that said, aides have made clear – and the Senate majority leader’s ...
Republican leaders oppose Planned Parenthood, but they say that shutting down the government is not the right way to fight it. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a member of the Republican leadership, said on the Senate floor on Thursday: “This fight for the sanctity of life, which Pope Francis...