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▪ Last-ditch meeting to avoid shutdown
▪ Eric Adams exits NYC mayoral race
▪ Federal agents patrol downtown Chicago
▪ Russia-Ukraine war threatens to spill over
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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...
Trump to meet with Schumer, Jeffries, Johnson, Thune ahead of shutdown deadline
President Trump is set to meet with the top four leaders in Congress on Monday ahead of a Tuesday shutdown deadline, a notable shift after he canceled a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) earlier in the week.
Schumer, Jeffries, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) will meet with Trump at the White House on Monday, according to three sources familiar with the mee...
Sunday shows preview: Comey indictment consumes Washington as shutdown deadline nears
Former FBI Director James Comey was slapped with a two-count indictment on Thursday, a development that has consumed Washington but was welcomed by President Trump, administration officials and their allies.
The charges come from Comey’s 2020 testimony in front of the Senate when the chamber was investigating probes into alleged ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, which the president has slammed as a “witch hunt.”
The indictment against Comey mar...
Shutdown fight leaves Democrats with no good options
The shutdown fight has left Democrats with few options, and none of them are good.
Faced with President Trump’s refusal to negotiate, they can either cave after weeks of tough talk and support the Republicans’ spending bill, or they can hold firm against it and watch the government shutdown.
The first option is politically fraught, providing an endorsement, however reluctant, of the Republicans’ go-it-alone budget strategy while ensuring a sharp backlash from a l...