“We could come up with a new system that would be much better” than "Obamacare," Donald Trump said, seemingly unaware of his own record on the issue.
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Republican leaders dig in on pressuring Democrats to open government
Republican leaders in Congress on Wednesday dug in on pressuring Democrats to vote for a “clean” GOP-crafted stopgap to reopen the government, signaling the Senate will hold repeated votes on the bill if necessary.
The top GOP leaders from both chambers appeared on the Capitol’s west terrace Wednesday morning in a rare press conference setting that had the National Mall in the background as a video screen played old videos of Democrats criticizing government shutdowns.
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Steve Rattner: GOP doesn’t talk about repealing Obamacare, but that is what they are doing
Morning Joe economic analyst Steve Rattner discusses the GOP's misleading talking point on the shutdown.
Newsom mocks Trump stairs comments as shutdown begins: ‘A very weak man’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) mocked President Trump’s recent comments about walking up the stairs at the United Nations (UN), calling him a "very weak man" as government funding lapsed overnight.
“THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN IS HERE! HEALTH CARE FOR BABIES, MOMS & GRANDMAS HELD HOSTAGE BY A VERY WEAK MAN WHO CAN’T EVEN DO STAIRS. BUT DON’T WORRY, DEMOCRATS ARE STRONG AND TRUMP ALWAYS CHICKENS OUT (T.A.C.O.)," Newsom’s press office said in a post on social platform X early We...
House GOP launches ad campaign hitting Democrats over shutdown
The National Republican Congressional Committee launched a paid advertising campaign hitting Democrats over the government shutdown in 42 competitive House seats on Wednesday.
In the 30-second spot, Republicans accuse Democrats of “grinding America to a halt in order to give illegal immigrants free health care.”
“Democrats refused to fund the government. So now military troops, police and Border Patrol lose their paychecks. Because of Democrats, veterans, f...
Johnson: Democrats would impeach Trump if they take over House
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Tuesday Democrats would move to impeach President Trump again if they regain the House majority in the 2026 midterm elections.
“We're going to win the midterms. Absolutely," he told Fox News's Laura Ingraham. "We're going to have a big victory. And I think we can expand that majority so we can keep going."
“We have to give President Trump four years and not two," he told "The Ingraham Angle" host. "Imagine if the Democr...
Johnson: Democrats would impeach Trump if they take over House
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Tuesday Democrats would move to impeach President Trump again if they regain the House majority in the 2026 midterm elections.
“We're going to win the midterms. Absolutely," he told Fox News's Laura Ingraham. "We're going to have a big victory. And I think we can expand that majority so we can keep going."
“We have to give President Trump four years and not two," he told "The Ingraham Angle" host. "Imagine if the Democr...
Ocasio-Cortez on shutdown: ‘They want us to blink first’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called on Democrats to not fold on their health insurance demands before true negotiations begin to reopen the government.
“They want us to blink first, and we have too much to save. Protecting people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview Tuesday night on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes.”
Asked about the “rising sense of alarm about the aggressiveness of th...
Trump mocks Jeffries with new AI video after Democrats deem first as racist
President Trump late Tuesday mocked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) with a second AI video, after a similar video was widely criticized by Democrats and other observers as racist.
In the new fake video on Truth Social Tuesday night, Trump again showed Jeffries, who is Black, with a sombrero and an exaggerated handlebar mustache, as mariachi music played over the Democratic leaders’ MSNBC interview. The second one was posted just a little before the governmen...
Shutdown threatens court operations
The government is shut down — and if it drags on, the judiciary won’t be spared.
Federal courts may be forced to limit their operations as soon as next week after funding lapsed at midnight.
The shutdown could eventually implicate court dockets across the country, delaying trials and other hearings as courts’ coffers run dry.
Today at least, all judiciary employees will report to work, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts spok...