Senate Republicans hope that the package will be enough to entice enough Democrats to break the logjam in the upper chamber and inch Congress closer to ending the 40-day shutdown.
Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to block a Senate Democratic proposal to fund the federal government through Oct. 31, to permanently extend enhanced health insurance premium subsidies that are due to expire in December, and to restore nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid funding cuts. Republicans defeated a procedural motion to advance the legislation after voting against...
The deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland will cost the federal government at least $3.8 million, according to a state official. "200 service members for 80 days is roughly $3.8 million. Just in pay and allowances, and then there are other logistics costs, that we are still working through, support agreements, for...
Republican leaders in Congress on Wednesday dug in on pressuring Democrats to vote for a “clean” GOP-crafted stopgap to reopen the government, signaling the Senate will hold repeated votes on the bill if necessary. The top GOP leaders from both chambers appeared on the Capitol’s west terrace Wednesday morning in a rare press conference setting...
President Trump signed an executive order bolstering U.S. protections for Qatar in the wake of an Israeli strike there that killed six people. The executive order states the United States "shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security...
New York politics have become increasingly polarized, with the mayoral election providing a test of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani's influence and the politics he champions, as well as the reelection bid of Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, with the rest of the country attempting to read the tea leaves of the 2026 midterms.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris's new book is on track to be the best-selling memoir of 2025, according to its publisher. "107 Days," Harris's account of her short-lived 2024 White House bid that followed then-President Biden's exit from the presidential race, sold 350,000 copies in its first week, publisher Simon & Schuster said Tuesday. The...
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it was pausing federal funding for infrastructure projects in New York City, citing concerns about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought posted on social platform X that roughly $18 billion in funding for the city has been "put on hold to...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Wednesday that he plans to keep the Senate in session through the weekend if Democrats don't reverse course and help advance a House-passed bill that would fund the government through Nov. 21, a proposal that has already failed twice on the Senate floor. “We’ll probably have to...
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers found themselves furloughed or working without pay when they woke up Wednesday morning, after government funding lapsed overnight. The government shutdown marks the first time since January 2019 that lawmakers failed to strike a deal to keep federal agencies open. The previous shutdown, during President Trump’s first term, lasted...
The government is shut down — and if it drags on, the judiciary won’t be spared. Federal courts may be forced to limit their operations as soon as next week after funding lapsed at midnight. The shutdown could eventually implicate court dockets across the country, delaying trials and other hearings as courts’ coffers run dry. ...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called President Trump’s behavior “erratic and unhinged” as government funding lapsed overnight. In a joint statement, the top two Congressional Democrats said their party remains “ready to find a bipartisan path forward” but blamed Trump and the Republican party for leading the...
