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 ...
Washington —President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and billionaire Elon Muskblew up a GOP-backed dealto fund federal agencies into March, raising the pressure on Republican congressional leaders tocraft a plan to avert a government shutdownjust before the holidays. In astateme...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is set to pass a crucial spending bill that averts a government shutdown, but there's one potential obstacle: President Donald Trump.
1. The rancor revolves around the deadline for lawmakers to approve a temporary spending measure to keep the government from shutting down, as well as the need to raise the nation's debt ceiling. "There's reason to hope that in the wake of the tragedy in Texas ... there will be...
Wait, still on that impeachment thing… So, now that McCarthy is out, and the government has for the moment been saved from shutting down, the silly impeachment game has been shut down, and all its participants urged to go find something useful to do with their time — right? Wrong. At...
Google "worst Congress ever", and you'll get nearly 5.4 million results — many of them scathing takes on two years of dysfunction, partisan warfare and all-around mayhem on Capitol Hill. And indeed, this Congress has been singularly unproductive, shutting down most government functions for two...
"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...
Congress was able to avoid shutting down the government after McCarthy put a 47-day funding resolution on the floor Saturday, hours before funding for the government would expire. It won the support of every Democrat but one, and 90 Republicans voted against it. The bill was overwhelmingly pas...