The Senate on Monday voted against reopening the federal government for the 11th time, pushing the shutdown to the three-week mark with both sides at loggerheads and unable to break the impasse.
The chamber voted 50-43 on the House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to pass.
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Angus King (I-Maine) once again crossed party lines and sided with Republicans.&n...
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Jeffries urges Trump to jump into spending talks: ‘Get off the golf course’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump’s hands-off approach to the congressional budget impasse has prevented any deal to end the shutdown.
Jeffries urged Trump to dive more aggressively into the spending debate, warning that otherwise the government will never reopen.
"Donald Trump definitively needs to get involved,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.
“He needs to get off the sidelines, get off the go...
Trump’s Australia meeting; FBI investigates hunting stand
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Reestablishing the dignity of work
The late Charlie Kirk warned that a dangerous disease was spreading through America — a rising generation adrift, disconnected from community, stuck in stalled mobility, and cut off from opportunity. His warning has only grown more urgent with time.
One of the central engines of this decline is ObamaCare. Passed in 2010, it allowed and even incentivized states to enroll able-bodied adults in Medicaid without work requirements. In doing so, Washington turned a focused safety ne...
Greene: GOP will lose House if it doesn’t tackle cost of living
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) ramped up her criticism of House Republican leadership, saying the GOP will lose the House if the cost of living does not decrease.
"I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck," she told Semafor in an interview published Monday.
"They’ll definitely be going into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank account.”
When reached for ...
Trump says ceasefire ‘still in place’ after Israel and Hamas exchange fire
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Democratic senators fear getting ‘hammered’ after ‘No Kings’ for ending shutdown
Some Democrats skeptical about their leadership’s hard-line stance against reopening the federal government privately acknowledge that they fear getting “hammered” by their liberal base if they vote for a Republican funding bill.
Grassroots Democrats frustrated with the Trump administration have been demanding a fight, and on Saturday millions showed up at “No Kings” demonstrations across the country to protest the president’s government.
In that context, Democrat...
Johnson: ‘No Kings’ a ‘stunt’ for Democrats amid shutdown
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said the “No Kings” protests against President Trump this weekend were a “stunt” created by Democrats because they needed “cover” amid the ongoing government shutdown.
In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Johnson suggested there was no need for Trump’s critics to join No Kings demonstrations this weekend, saying the very fact that the protests took place is proof that they were not necessary.
“The irony of the message i...
Jeffries: Trump, Republicans ‘radio silent’ on shutdown negotiations
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday accused President Trump and congressional Republicans of going “radio silent” during the government shutdown.
Jeffries told host Jonathan Karl on ABC’s "This Week" that “we haven't heard anything from Donald Trump or the Republicans over the last few weeks. They have gone radio silent since” a Sept. 29 Oval Office meeting between the president and the four congressional leaders.
The shutdown, which began on ...
Moderate Democrats should reject socialism, embrace a GI Bill for all
Moderate Democrats like Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Rep. Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey are running for governor on a message that resonates: tackle affordability, fix health care and expand opportunity. If they win, they will be hailed as the future of the Democratic Party.
But there is a trap. There are few policy prescriptions that are bold enough to matter but moderate enough to win.
As it turns out, the American government al...