Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), who nearly a decade ago served as Hillary Clinton’s running mate when she lost the presidency to Donald Trump, was the eighth Democratic senator to back a centrist deal the Senate is set to approve Monday that is likely to soon end the longest shutdown in American history.
Kaine’s top priority was to protect thousands of federal workers the Trump administration was attempting to fire during the government closure.
To win over Kaine, Senate Ma...
Stefany Shaheen blasts shutdown deal backed by her mother
Thanksgiving dinner in the Shaheen household might be a little awkward.
Stefany Shaheen, a Democratic candidate for Congress from New Hampshire, said she “cannot support” a deal to end the government shutdown on which the Senate is voting Monday evening. Complicating things is the fact that her mother, Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), supports the proposal.
The younger Shaheen, in a Monday post on the social platform X, said she would only support a de...
Senate clears key hurdle in march to final vote on ending shutdown
The Senate on Monday cleared a key procedural hurdle toward greenlighting a package to reopen the government, the first of a series of planned back-to-back votes.
Senators voted 60-40 to grease the skids toward final passage of the funding bill Monday night.
The eight senators who crossed party lines to vote to advance the funding bill Sunday night once again voted with every Republican except Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
The package would keep the governmen...
Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to end shutdown
Some lawmakers and progressive groups blame minority leader after eight senators defect
Democrats are seething after news emerged on Sunday that eight members of their Senate caucus had collaborated with Republicans on crafting a compromise to end the longest government shutdown in US history, without winning any healthcare concessions that they had sought.
But one name is coming in for more opprobrium than any other: Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who had led the Democrat’s weeks-long stand against reopening the government without an extension of tax credits that lower premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans.
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Shaheen: Shutdown deal critics ‘need to train their fire’ on Trump, Johnson, Republicans
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), one of eight Senate Democratic Conference members who voted to advance a measure to reopen the government, said Monday that critics of the group should “train their fire” on President Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and congressional Republicans.
“All those people who opposed this agreement, staying in a shutdown mode was not getting us anywhere,” Shaheen told CNN’s Kate Bolduan. “And they need to train their fire on the people who are...
Liberal fury over shutdown deal convulses Democrats
Tensions in the Democratic Party are boiling over this week after a group of mostly moderate Democratic senators joined Republicans to advance a bill to reopen the government.
The Democrats’ support for the spending bill all but ensures that the history-making shutdown will soon end, but it came without Republicans giving any ground on the Democrats’ central demand for an extension of ObamaCare subsidies.
The stunning development Sunday night has infuriated libera...
Trump’s new plan for Obamacare leaves Americans to fend for themselves
Trump wants to replace federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act premiums, which are sent to private health insurers, with money sent directly to Americans.
Trump says Marjorie Taylor Greene has ‘lost her way’
President Trump on Monday responded to criticisms by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who accused the president of focusing more on foreign affairs than matters at home on a day when he met with the new Syrian leader.
Trump said he was surprised by Greene’s statements and suggested she had some “act going.”
"I don't know what happened to Marjorie. Nice woman, but she's lost her way,” the president said in the Oval Office when asked about Greene’s criticism.