Congress returns — and so does political drama over avoiding a government shutdown
Congress comes back on Monday after a six-week summer break that included a transformed presidential race and tightening polls in battleground states.
Lauren Boebert says Speaker Johnson’s failed spending bill would ‘screw’ the US more than a ‘Diddy freak off’
Firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert chided that House Speaker Mike Johnson’s spending patch flop would “screw our country more times over than a Diddy freak off.”
White House rebukes Republicans over partisan plan to avert shutdown
The White House on Monday issued a strong rebuke to a partisan proposal recently rolled out by GOP leadership to avert a government shutdown later this month, as both sides dig in their heels in a
Divided House GOP struggles to avoid a government shutdown
House Republicans will try to pass Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to fund the government this week and avoid a shutdown on Oct. 1.
House to vote Wednesday on doomed GOP government funding bill
Speaker Mike Johnson's GOP government funding bill will come to the floor, but probably without enough votes. A Sept. 30 shutdown deadline looms.
Speaker Johnson sets House vote on spending bill to prevent government shutdown
The legislation faces an uphill climb in the House and has no chance in the Senate. The vast majority of Democrats oppose it, and some Republicans do, too, but for different reasons.
House GOP moving forward with partisan plan to avert shutdown
Speaker Mike Johnson said the House would vote Wednesday on a measure to keep the government funded that includes voting legislation Democrats oppose.
US House Republicans set Wednesday vote on stopgap funding bill
The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote Wednesday on a stopgap spending bill that would extend government funding for six months and require Americans to provide proof of citizenship when they vote,
Shutdown Showdown
Lawmakers rejected an effort to combine government funding with a bill about the illusion of a threat of illegal voting, and ...
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A Fake Narrative Could Drive a Real Government Shutdown
There are plenty of precedents for the coming shutdown showdown, which usually go something like this: Republicans and Democrats reach a stalemate over spending and run out of time for a deal.
The House is stumbling toward another shutdown — and another Trump loss
After all the buffoonery of the last year, Trump and his putative allies in the House have finally figured out how to ...
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Senators grow anxious as Mike Johnson grapples with shutdown showdown
Top senators in both parties are giving Johnson space to negotiate a short-term spending deal, but they warn that the upper chamber may soon be forced to step in to avert an Oct. 1 shutdown.
Government Shutdown Looming Next Month: Here's What That Means
It ran from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 25, 2019, during the Trump administration. At 34 days, it was the longest government ...
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Government Shutdown Looms As House Republicans Face Senate Showdown Over Funding
30 as they return to Washington. With the shutdown deadline looming, House Republicans are gearing up for a showdown with the Democratic-controlled Senate, which could extend for weeks.
With days to go before system shuts down, Johnson condemns ShotSpotter as 'a walkie-talkie on a pole'
Despite Mayor Brandon Johnson's ridicule, a City Council majority determined to keep the gunshot detection system operating ...