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Trump administration live updates: Senate Dems won't provide votes for funding bill
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal to fund the government.
Shutdown fight moves to Senate as Democrats weigh support for funding bill
Senate Democrats are considering the path forward after the House narrowly approved a stopgap measure to keep the government funded.
What's in the GOP’s Stopgap Funding Bill to Avert a Government Shutdown?
House Republicans narrowly passed their stopgap funding bill Tuesday despite a nearly-united “no” vote from Democrats and one Republican. The measure, a 99-page “clean” continuing resolution that will largely keep government funding at current levels in most areas through September while offering some steep spending cuts in a handful of other places,
House Will Vote on Spending Bill to Avert Shutdown Today
While legislation to fund the government beyond Friday could soon face a floor vote in the House, the real challenge will be in the Senate.
How Congress could vote to avert – or allow – a government shutdown
A Republican-sponsored continuing resolution to keep the government operating was approved by the House. It faces a close vote in the Senate.
After pressure from Trump, House Republicans vote to avert shutdown
The president and other senior administration officials spent the past week pushing hard to get the vote through the narrow House majority.
US House Republicans pass stopgap bill to fund government
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a stopgap bill to keep federal agencies funded past Friday, averting a partial shutdown beginning this weekend even as President Donald Trump dramatically cuts the government.
President Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing Congress' funding for USAID, judge says
A federal judge says President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S. humanitarian ...
Senate Democrats Balk at Funding Extension, Raising the Risk of a Shutdown
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.
Congress and DOGE Can Find Spending Cuts at the Department of Defense
The growing distance between the United States and its allies in NATO is an overdue nudge to European nations to start paying ...
Highlights from Trump's speech to a 2025 joint session of Congress
President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time since retaking office, telling lawmakers and the ...
D.C.’s hopes lie in Senate as residents, officials push to avert $1B hit
A possible Democratic proposal boosted D.C.’s hopes of avoiding potential layoffs but also inched the nation closer to a ...
America Magazine6d
Trump the bully: Is this what the United States aspires to be?
He made “buy American” a principle of the first order, going so far as to once return a new vehicle, made by one of the Big ...
Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech to Congress
In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military ...
Greenlanders are waking up to a message from Trump welcoming them to the United States
Many in Greenland are worried and offended by Trump’s threats to seize control of homeland, because he says the US needs it ...
The Bulwark6d
Knives Out: The United States Congress
On Thursday, the House formally censured Green 224-198-2. Ten Democrats voted with all Republicans in favor of the censure.
Representative Keating clashes with GOP lawmaker who misgendered Sarah McBride, first transgender woman to serve in Congress
Keating, a Cape Cod Democrat, furiously questioned Texas Republican Keith Self, who referred to McBride as “mister” multiple times during a subcommittee meeting.
Dallas mayor tells Congress the private sector, not government, is key to affordable homes
Government can best address high housing costs by getting out of the private sector’s way, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson ...