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Energy secretary warns of shutdown impacts on nuclear weapons safety
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Thursday warned a government shutdown could threaten nuclear weapons safety with funding on the verge of a lapse about a week.
“We have about eight more days of funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the overseer of our nuclear weapons stockpile, the engines that power our nuclear submarines and our aircraft carriers. Eight more days of funding, and then we have to go into some emergency shutdown procedures, putting our co...
Haberman: Some Republicans ‘quietly frustrated’ with Trump’s Project 2025 talk
White House correspondent Maggie Haberman on Thursday said GOP lawmakers are “quietly frustrated” by President Trump’s references to the conservative policy initiative known as Project 2025 during the government shutdown.
In recent days, the president has touted a meeting with White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, who co-authored the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. The 920-page leadership mandate outlined a legislative agenda t...
Senate rejects measures to end shutdown
Senate Democrats voted for the fourth time Friday to defeat a House-passed bill that would fund the government through Nov. 21 and end the three-day government shutdown that has left tens of thousands of federal employees furloughed.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) failed to pick up any additional Democratic votes for the clean, seven-week funding measure, leaving the tally at 54-44. It needed 60 votes to pass.
Three members of the Democratic cauc...
Most Trump supporters back ObamaCare subsidies’ extension: Survey
A new survey has found that a majority of Republicans and Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters back the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits at the center of the government shutdown fight.
The poll, released Friday and conducted by the nonpartisan health policy research organization KFF, indicated that 59 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of supporters of the MAGA movement favor extending the tax credits.
A majority of Democrats an...
Live updates: Thune says he can’t make ObamaCare commitments in shutdown talks
The Senate reconvenes Friday with another vote that could reopen the government on its third day of shutdown. If it fails, expect the shutdown to last into next week.
“They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to open up the government,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Thursday. “If that fails, we’ll give them the weekend to think about it. We’ll come back, vote again Monday.”
Expect leadership from both sides to hold press conferences on the matt...
Jeffries: Trump ‘unserious’ about shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) claimed Friday morning that President Trump is “unserious” about ending the federal shutdown as the two political leaders have continued their back-and-forth over government funding.
“It’s further confirmation that Republicans are the ones who were clearly determined to shut the government down," Jeffries said during an appearance on MSNBC. "Everything that President Trump has done subsequent to Monday has been unhinged and un...
Shut down and find out: Three possible major consequences
Another government shutdown is upon us, and you know what that means: More handwringing about closed parks, furloughed workers, and stalled paychecks.
Not to make light of the real struggles that come with Washington’s periodic bouts of dysfunction (or the reputational hit abroad), but this particular shutdown could also carry outsized long-term political consequences that transcend the normal news coverage.
Although it is impossible to game out every pos...
Some free advice for Democrats: Stop saving Republicans from themselves
Why are Democrats shutting down the government to save enhanced Obamacare subsidies?
I understand, in the abstract, why Democrats like Obamacare subsidies and how they benefit people who would otherwise struggle to buy health insurance. But politically, shutting down the government to protect these subsidies is the silliest thing Democrats have done since they stopped the Republicans from shutting the government down last September.
Republicans love...
Democrats seek shutdown leverage with economy over Trump, GOP
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are buckling in for a protracted government shutdown, something that experts say could begin to have a significant impact on the economy and put pressure on President Trump to negotiate a deal with Democrats.
Economic experts say the shutdown won’t have an immediate impact on the economy, but they predict the effect on gross domestic product (GDP) will add up after a few weeks and could become more pronounced because of other economic headwinds, su...