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Senate GOP sets up single vote to reopen government Tuesday

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has set up one vote Tuesday afternoon to reopen the government, giving Democrats only the opportunity to vote for or against a House-passed continuing resolution that has failed repeatedly on the Senate floor.

The Senate is scheduled to convene at 3 p.m. and the vote is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m.

It will be the eighth time senators consider the House measure, which failed to advance on seven previous votes.

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Jeffries: Greene has had ‘surprisingly enlightened few weeks’

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been acting more “enlightened” in recent weeks after the ardent MAGA supporter broke with her party on the Epstein file discharge petition and the expiring federal health care subsidies.

“It does seem to many of us that she’s had a surprisingly enlightened few weeks in terms of her perspective on both the Epstein files” and the ObamaCare subsidies, Jeffries said Monday on MSNBC’s “Ka...

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Greene: ‘There’s a lot of weak Republican men’

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Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hit back at fellow Republicans over the backlash she’s faced for breaking with the party on high-profile issues ranging from its positions on the government shutdown to its opposition to efforts to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

“There’s a lot of weak Republican men, and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene told The Washington Post in an article published Tuesday. “So they always try to marginalize the strong...

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Depredations of congressional authority dominate, from Obama to Trump

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In 2014, Congress sued the executive branch over the president’s refusal to enforce the law. It was kind of a mind bender because the majority in Congress hated the law that wasn’t being enforced — ObamaCare — and had repeatedly tried to kill it entirely.

But there we were: U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, in which the Republican-controlled House sued over the failure to implement provisions of President Obama’s signature health insurance law that the same lawmaker...

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Trump administration haphazardly fires and recalls CDC staffers

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Jeffries: Trump hasn’t given Johnson ‘permission’ to meet over shutdown

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump hasn’t granted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republicans "permission" to negotiate about the government shutdown, which is in its 13th day.

“Speaker Mike Johnson and I have not met because Donald Trump has not given them permission to meet,” Jeffries told MSNBC. “We know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide as it relates to sitting dow...

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Vance says ACA tax credits fuel fraud

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Vice President Vance said Sunday that subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fuel waste and fraud in the insurance industry, as Republicans refuse Democratic demands to extend the tax credits ahead of open enrollment next month.

“The tax credits go to some people deservedly. And we think the tax credits actually go to a lot of waste and fraud within the insurance indust...

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Johnson: ‘We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history’

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government.

“We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats dropped their partisan demands and passed a clean, no-strings-attached budget to reopen the government and pay our federal workers,” Johnson said in a press conference on the 1...

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Shutdown starting to affect US economy: Bessent

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that the government shutdown is starting to affect the U.S. economy.

During an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Bessent said the media is not sufficiently covering the gravity of the shutdown, now in its thirteenth day.

“I think the dirty secret here for why this has dragged on for so long is the Democratic friends in the mainstream media have been downplaying the shutdown, and this is getti...

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