House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Monday that Democrats won’t accept any Republican spending bill that makes life more expensive for working class people, pointing specifically to looming health care cuts as a “five-alarm fire” that must be addressed to win his party’s support for legislation preventing a shutdown.
Just hours before he and other top congressional leaders were scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House, Jeffries amplified t...
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Tensions expected as Trump meets with top Democrats and Republicans in effort to avoid shutdown
Trump and Republicans are unfazed at prospect of shutdown, and talks with Democrats are anticipated to be confrontational
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Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for a crunch White House meeting with Donald Trump in an 11th-hour bid to avert a potentially damaging federal government shutdown.
Monday’s gathering is aimed at reaching an agreement over funding the government and largely hinges on Democrat demands for an extensi...
Live updates: Trump lays out postwar plan for Gaza after meeting with Netanyahu
President Trump has high-stakes topics on his agenda Monday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House, just ahead of top congressional Democrats.
Trump and Netanyahu discussed a new 20-point proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, which the White House detailed ahead of a press conference with the leaders.
With less than two days until government funding runs out, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem J...
Trump, Democrats set for last-ditch talks to avoid shutdown
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Democrats dig in for shutdown to buck up demoralized voters
Democratic senators increasingly see shutting down the government to send a message to President Trump as a political necessity, Democratic aides and strategists say.
These frustrated Democrats think they need to do something drastic to push back on the Trump administration and buck up their own demoralized voters — and the looming, Sept. 30 government funding deadline may be one of their best remaining chances.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) thin...
Lawmakers dig in heels as shutdown deadline looms
Lawmakers from both parties dug in their heels Sunday over government funding demands ahead of a meeting between President Trump and congressional leaders aimed at averting a shutdown this week.
During various interviews on the Sunday political affairs programs, Republican and Democratic leaders signaled that health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year remain a key sticking point.
Democratic leaders have been adamant that Republicans won’t get their...
Van Hollen says Democrats ‘not going to write a blank check’ to avert shutdown
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Democrats will not “write a blank check” to the Trump administration to avert a government shutdown.
In a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the Maryland Democrat doubled down on the party's opposition to a GOP-backed continuing resolution (CR) to extend government funding at current levels unless money is included for health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act that are set to expire at the end of the year.
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Jeffries says he’s ‘hopeful’ Congress can avert a government shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday he’s "hopeful" Congress can avert a government shutdown, a day before he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are set to meet with President Trump and GOP leaders at the White House.
“Our view going into the meeting is that we want to find bipartisan common ground to find a spending agreement that avoids a government shutdown and actually meets the needs of the American people in terms of their health, ...
Johnson pushes back on Jeffries: ‘There is nothing partisan about this continuing resolution’
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) insisted on Sunday that there is “nothing partisan” about the Republican bill to keep the government funded ahead of the shutdown deadline this Wednesday.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the GOP leader pushed back on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-N.Y.) suggestion this past week that the Republican proposal is a “reckless partisan bill that continues to gut the health care of the American people” and that “their bill is d...
Government shutdown looms: What to know about closures, payments and more
A government shutdown starting on Wednesday is looking probable as Democrats in Congress push Republicans on funding, health care, and President Trump’s reshaping of the federal government.
Unless Republicans and Democrats in Congress come to an agreement and pass a funding measure by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, October will kick off with the first government shutdown in nearly seven years.
It would affect every agency, but many “essential” government functions and pay...