Democratic lawmakers, who have struggled to put together a winning political message against President Trump, are feeling confident they have an upper hand ahead of a looming government shutdown because they think they have an advantage over the GOP on health care.
The confidence is reflected in the fact that Senate Democratic leaders aren’t budging from their position that they won’t vote for a clean seven-week continuing resolution to fund the government past Sept. 30 if ...
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House to vote on CR in race to avoid government shutdown
The first partisan showdown over an end-of-month government funding deadline is set to take place on the House floor on Friday, with a vote on a stopgap to fund the government through Nov. 21.
Republican leaders who crafted the partisan bill aim to set up a repeat of their funding strategy from March: Cut Democrats out of the talks, dare Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to force a government shutdown — and hope he will fold as he did before.
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Senate set to consider pair of spending bills with shutdown looming
The Senate is expected to vote on a pair of stopgap spending packages on Friday as lawmakers seek a way to avert a government shutdown ahead of the Oct. 1 deadline.
Early in the day, the House is set to vote and potentially pass the GOP’s seven-week “clean” continuing resolution, sending it over to the upper chamber in the process.
That would set the stage for the twin votes, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announcing the plan late on Thursda...
House GOP plots spending plan
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House GOP plan would jam Senate Democrats with funding stopgap
House Republican leaders are telling members that the chamber may not return until after Oct. 1 after passing a short term funding stopgap, a House GOP leadership source told The Hill, in a move that could jam Senate Democrats ahead of the end-of-month government funding deadline.
The plan hinges on the GOP-crafted continuing resolution (CR), which funds the government until Nov. 21, passing through the slim GOP majority in the lower chamber Friday despite opposition ...
States band together on vaccine recommendations in challenge to Trump administration
A group of Northeastern states and New York City on Thursday formally announced a joint public health coalition to collaborate on evidence-based public health, including vaccines, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to upend federal vaccine policy.
It’s the latest example of vaccine policy fracturing along party lines, as blue states seek to insulate their residents from the effects of the federal government's increasingly antagonistic stance toward...
Manchin: Democrats would be blamed for shutdown
Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) said Wednesday the blame for a potential government shutdown would likely fall on Democrats.
“They’re going to be blamed for shutting it down,” Manchin told Semafor. “Why would they want to put themselves in that position? They don’t have leverage on those types of things."
He added, "You’ve got to understand the position you’re in — you play the hand that you’re given.”
Government funding is set to lapse Sept. 30 if law...
The pandemic is over — let Biden’s health insurance handouts expire
Ronald Reagan once quipped that “nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”
He could have been talking about the effort to extend — for a second time — former President Joe Biden’s Affordable Care Act-enhanced tax credits, a set of extremely generous federal health insurance subsidies intended to help Americans get through the COVID-19 crisis.
That crisis ended two years ago. Biden’s extra help, enacted by a Democratic-majority Congress in 2021 and ex...
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Live updates: Trump jabs at Kimmel as his suspension sets off uproar
President Trump, along with allies, lauded Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from ABC, even as it has sparked a firestorm over free speech.
The late-night host was taken off the air Wednesday over comments he made Monday about the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Some Democrats have gone so far as to call for Federal Communications Commission chief Brendan Carr to resign, citing his pressure on stations to act.
“Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired becau...