Former Vice President Harris said on Thursday that any checks and balances to hold back President Trump have not worked.
On tour to promote her new book about her campaign, "107 Days," Harris spoke with journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher at the Warner Theatre to a sold-out audience.
"The point is that the guardrails have failed, for the most part," Harris said. "Except one, which is the people and the power of God."
"So right now, in this moment, if t...
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Farah Griffin: ‘It’s a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason’
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Thursday that it is “a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason,” as the Georgia Republican has bucked her party on multiple issues amid the government shutdown.
“It’s a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason, but like, you know what they say about a blind squirrel, so, I completely agree with her here,” Farah Griffin said on the ABC show in response to a clip of Greene talking about disagr...
Duffy threatens to fire air traffic controllers who skip work during shutdown
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown.
“If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don’t show up to work … they’re the problem children,” Duffy said, according to CNN.
“We need more controllers, but we need the best and the brightest, the dedicated controllers, and if we have some on our staff that aren’t dedicated like we need, we’re...
Pressure grows on Johnson to hold vote on military pay
Pressure is rising on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to call the House back in session for a vote on ensuring military pay during the shutdown.
President Trump said a standalone military pay bill "probably will happen" in remarks to reporters Wednesday, while bipartisan legislation allowing service members to be paid amid the shutdown is gaining momentum in the House.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee...
Senate Republican slams Greene shutdown criticism: ‘Totally unfair’
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on Thursday slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for breaking with party leadership in her criticism of the government shutdown.
“I understand the frustrations, but I think it's totally unfair to say that Republicans have not entered in negotiations and Republicans are not having conversations,” the senior West Virginia senator said during an appearance on CNN’s “Inside Politics” when asked about her House colleague.
Gree...
Watch live: Jeffries gives remarks on government shutdown Day 9
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretched into its ninth day.
Jeffries has doubled down in recent days on Democrats' demands that expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies be addressed in any continuing resolution. On Wednesday, the lawmaker and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) traded barbs over the position after the Democratic leader rejected a proposed short-term expansion of the health...
Democratic Alarm Over an Unbound Trump Fuels Shutdown Standoff
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.
Senate defeats government funding measure as shutdown hits Day 9
The Senate on Thursday voted for a seventh time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, as only three members of the Democratic caucus joined Republicans in voting to resolve the impasse.
The House Republican-drafted measure to fund the government through Nov. 21, a "clean" continuing resolution that would keep funding at its current level, failed to advance on a procedural vote, 54-45. It needed 60 votes to advance.
Democratic Sens. John Fe...