Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown.
“If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don’t show up to work … they’re the problem children,” Duffy said, according to CNN.
“We need more controllers, but we need the best and the brightest, the dedicated controllers, and if we have some on our staff that aren’t dedicated like we need, we’re...
Pressure grows on Johnson to hold vote on military pay
Pressure is rising on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to call the House back in session for a vote on ensuring military pay during the shutdown.
President Trump said a standalone military pay bill "probably will happen" in remarks to reporters Wednesday, while bipartisan legislation allowing service members to be paid amid the shutdown is gaining momentum in the House.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee...
Senate Republican slams Greene shutdown criticism: ‘Totally unfair’
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on Thursday slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for breaking with party leadership in her criticism of the government shutdown.
“I understand the frustrations, but I think it's totally unfair to say that Republicans have not entered in negotiations and Republicans are not having conversations,” the senior West Virginia senator said during an appearance on CNN’s “Inside Politics” when asked about her House colleague.
Gree...
Watch live: Jeffries gives remarks on government shutdown Day 9
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretched into its ninth day.
Jeffries has doubled down in recent days on Democrats' demands that expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies be addressed in any continuing resolution. On Wednesday, the lawmaker and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) traded barbs over the position after the Democratic leader rejected a proposed short-term expansion of the health...
Democratic Alarm Over an Unbound Trump Fuels Shutdown Standoff
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.
Senate defeats government funding measure as shutdown hits Day 9
The Senate on Thursday voted for a seventh time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, as only three members of the Democratic caucus joined Republicans in voting to resolve the impasse.
The House Republican-drafted measure to fund the government through Nov. 21, a "clean" continuing resolution that would keep funding at its current level, failed to advance on a procedural vote, 54-45. It needed 60 votes to advance.
Democratic Sens. John Fe...
Democrats can end the shutdown — just tie the Epstein files’ release to a spending bill
The government shutdown shows no signs of stopping. But eventually, Democrats are going to cave and agree to end the shutdown, because they have a much lower threshold for national pain than the Trump White House does.
Apart from the president’s willingness to target blue states and “Democrat agencies,” whatever those are, the wheels will eventually begin to come off of vital parts of the government like the FBI. Last time, that took about four weeks.
That means De...
Chip Roy: Republicans in Congress ‘running afraid’ on health care
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) blasted his fellow Republicans in Congress for "running afraid" from health care, reiterating his belief that major federal health programs must be reformed "top to bottom."
Roy, who is running to replace Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), spoke with the libertarian outlet Reason magazine to discuss his views and recent votes in Congress.
Reason's Nick Gillespie asked Roy why Republicans waffled when it came to repealing and replacing t...
Inside Trump’s Gaza deal; Johnson takes C-SPAN calls
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Jeffries defends rejection of short-term extension of ObamaCare subsidies
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday defended his opposition to a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, a proposal backed by a handful of moderate Republicans as part of an effort to reopen the government.
In an interview on “CNN News Central,” the Democratic leader noted the short-term proposal “doesn't even have the support of the House Republican leadership, who have refused to address the issue of extending the Affordable Care ...