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...
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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...
Five questions hanging over the government shutdown
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5 takeaways as a government shutdown begins
The government shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday after lawmakers did little to prevent it over the last two days.
Republicans are adamant that their proposed measure to keep the government ticking for the next seven weeks, already approved by the GOP-held House, should be passed with no baggage attached in the Senate.
Democrats are equally emphatic that their support, which Republicans need to pass the legislation through the upper chamber, will only be given if t...
Health insurance costs for 22 million in limbo as shutdown begins
As the first government shutdown since 2019 begins, GOP leaders insist any talk of extending COVID-era enhanced subsidies for ObamaCare plans won’t happen until at least mid-November.
“We are not going to be held hostage for over $1 trillion in new spending on a continuing resolution,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Tuesday.
But insurance experts agree: If Republicans have their way, millions of people who buy health insurance through the Af...
The longer the shutdown, the worse for schools, education experts say
Education advocates are biting their nails as the government shutdown begins.
A contingency plan for the Education Department has been put in place, with 95 percent of its staffers furloughed, apart from the Federal Student Aid Office. Most of the funding designated over the summer and other money set to be released Wednesday will continue, creating some cushion for schools. But facilities on tax-exempt federal land such as Native American reservations will feel the ...
When will shutdown end? Lawmakers have no clue
The intense partisan politics that drove Washington into a shutdown are making the path out of it hard to see.
It's a stare-down, and one side has to blink — with Republicans and Democrats each vowing it won't be them.
Democrats have shot down a GOP-crafted stopgap to fund the government at current levels through Nov. 21, demanding an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies and new restrictions on the administration’s practice of withholdin...
Kamala Harris’s book tour lets her plot a course for 2028
Interest in the Democratic presidential race intensifies as President Trump’s presidential approval rating sinks. His general presidential approval is now 11 points underwater in a new national survey of registered voters for The New York Times. His performance rating is also net-negative in every issue area, except for crime.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) had his moment in the sun during the long hot summer. Now it’s time for former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) to shi...