The collapse of Chuck Schumer’s shutdown gambit when seven fellow Democrats and one independent broke ranks with him serves as a humiliating bookend to the longest government closure ever.
THE CHANGING HISTORY OF THE SHUTDOWN. Why did Senate Democrats shut the government down for more than 40 days? Now that the standoff is over, it appears a number of Democrats cannot agree among themselves on why they did what they did. The stated reason for the shutdown, of course, was the Democratic demand that Republicans extend […]
Democrats tried their hardest to convince the country that the government shutdown was the fault of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. They relied on every political weapon at their disposal. They used their accomplices in the media. They used celebrities to advance their political narratives. They unleashed their social media army of trolls […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Tuesday that “no one really knows” who’s heading up his party in both chambers of Congress as tensions flare among Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown. “Who is running the show now in the Democratic Party, in the Senate, in the House?” Fox News’s Lawrence Jones asked Fetterman on “Fox...
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...
The Senate will not be holding votes this weekend on reopening the government as was initially expected, as some Republican senators will be attending a high-dollar fundraising retreat for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) on Georgia's Sea Island. The timing of the fundraising committee’s fall meeting is awkward for senators; Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)...
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is raising concerns over the lack of details given about President Trump's "most favored nation" (MFN) pricing deal he announced with Pfizer this week, calling on the company's CEO to explain how it plans to execute the agreement. In a letter to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, provided to The Hill, Gallego...
Despite winning the July 2024 general election with a large majority, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has seen his popularity plummet, with his party's polling numbers remaining static at around 20 percent while Nigel Farage's Reform UK party has risen to 30 percent, leading to speculation of a potential leadership challenge.
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....
The Trump administration announced Friday it was freezing $2.1 billion in funding for infrastructure projects in Chicago, marking the latest instance in recent days of the White House withholding money for projects in blue states. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought wrote in a post on social platform X that the money...
Zohran Mamdani is likely to win the mayoral race in New York City, and while progressives are celebrating, his socialist policies could be a warning sign for the Democratic Party and a boost for Republicans.
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...
President Trump late Thursday labeled Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought the “grim reaper," as the Trump administration prepares to move forward with threatened layoffs amid the government shutdown. The president posted a video to Truth Social depicting Russell as the grim reaper who “wields the pen, the funds and the brain.” ...
Trump has warned Democrats that he may take advantage of the current shutdown to terminate a sizeable number of federal employees. Just think: AOC may have set in motion the biggest downsizing of the federal government in history.
Let’s start with the stipulation that the current government shutdown could hardly have been designed to be more damaging to Republican candidates in next month’s off-year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. The White House is trumpeting another round of deep federal layoffs even before voters had forgotten about the pain from the Department...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that any supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine would threaten the U.S. relationship with Russia, but that Moscow’s defense systems will swiftly adopt to the new weaponry. Putin, during a foreign policy forum in Sochi, Russia, said the U.S. potentially sending Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine will indicate a...
