Moderate Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), one of two Republicans to vote against the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) earlier this month, said she will vote for it when it comes back to the floor Tuesday.
“We’ve got mere hours before the end of the fiscal year, and so I’ve got no options now,” said Murkowski, who has proposed a framework to keep the government open that would extend the expiring Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies for a year.
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Trump floats cutting benefits during shutdown, warns Democrats are taking a risk
President Trump suggested Tuesday that his administration can make cuts to programs during a potential government shutdown, warning that Democrats are taking a risk by not voting for the GOP continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 21.
“We don’t want it to shut down,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them and irreversible by them. Like cutting vast numbers of people out, c...
GOP lt. governors call on Senate Democrats to avoid shutdown
A group of Republican lieutenant governors drafted a letter to Senate leadership on Tuesday calling on Democrats in the Upper Chamber to pass a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.
The letter, first obtained by The Hill, invokes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a handful of other congressional Democrats’ vote with Republicans last March to keep the government open, as well as 13 clean funding extensions that Congress during the Biden ...
Senate to vote Tuesday afternoon on averting shutdown, but proposals expected to fail
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he expects the Senate to begin voting at 5 p.m. Tuesday on competing Democratic and Republican proposals to fund the government, but both proposals are expected to fail to advance, putting Washington on the path to a government shutdown that will furlough tens of thousands of federal workers.
Thune said he expects the votes to happen late Tuesday afternoon but cautioned the time agreement for votes isn’t yet “locked in.”
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HUD plasters shutdown warning about ‘radical left’ on website
The Department of Housing and Urban Development plastered a statement across its homepage Tuesday blaming the “radical left” for threats of a government shutdown.
“The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands,” the website statement reads.
“The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people,” it added.
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Watch live: Trump gives announcement amid battle over drug prices
President Trump is expected to give an announcement on Tuesday from the White House as his deadline for drugmakers to lower prices arrives.
“President Trump is doing more to lower healthcare costs than anyone else in Washington, D.C. While Democrats are threatening to shut down the federal government to subsidize health care for illegal aliens, President Trump is leveraging the power of the federal government to drastically cut drug prices for everyday Americans," White Hou...
Watch live: House Democrats give remarks as shutdown looms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Democratic leaders will give remarks Tuesday morning as Congress stares down a government shutdown.
Federal funding is set to lapse at midnight, despite GOP lawmaker's efforts to pass a continuing resolution that would have kept the lights on until mid-November.
Democrats — whose leaders met with President Trump on Monday to attempt negotiations, which fell flat — have vowed to hold back support for a stopgap fun...
Trump says there may be ‘a lot’ of federal workers laid off in government shutdown
President Trump said Tuesday there may be a lot of layoffs in the federal government if Congress doesn’t act to prevent a shutdown by the end of day, blaming the Democrats for a potential lapse in funding.
“Well, we may do a lot, and that’s only because of the Democrats,” Trump said when asked how many federal workers he plans to lay off in the event of a shutdown.
Trump also blamed Democrats for illegal immigration, repeating his arguments that Democrats want to ...
ACA tax credits for 22 million are at the center of the shutdown drama
With time running out to avert a government shutdown, millions of Americans who get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act could soon face sharply higher premiums.
The Movement: Conservatives warn against ObamaCare compromise in shutdown fight
Conservatives are not at the center of the government shutdown that looks set to begin at midnight.
But they are poised to make it more difficult to end if it begins.
Democrats are demanding that Republicans address health care priorities as they reject the GOP-crafted, “clean” seven-week stopgap.
In particular, they want to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced subsidies that expire at the end of the year.
The clearest way ...