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Live updates: Senate vote sets up chance to end government shutdown

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...

Trump labels Vought ‘grim reaper’ ahead of threatened shutdown layoffs

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.” ...

The shutdown exposes 3 critical weaknesses for Democrats 

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.

Whole Hog Politics: Virginia, New Jersey races turn ugly, foreshadowing midterms 

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...

Government shutdown prevents DC from issuing marriage licenses

Amid the shutdown, the DC Superior Court is limited to performing "functions necessary to continue the resolution of cases without interruption,"

Putin: Possible supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine threatens US relationship with Russia

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...

Senate Republican: ‘Jury is still out’ on whether Trump is winning trade war

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) says the “jury’s still out” on whether President Trump is winning the trade war, particularly because the Trump administration has yet to strike a comprehensive trade deal with China. “I think we’re in the early stages of the battle, to be honest with you,” Tillis told video journalist Nicholas Ballasy....

Harris admits campaign planned champagne, cupcakes, chief of staff for 2024 victory that never came

Former Vice President Kamala Harris' new book, "107 Days," revealed she chose Denis McDonough to lead her White House team had she won the 2024 presidential election.

Florida tourism chief rejects World Economic Forum summit invitation: ‘I’m going to decline’

Bryan Griffin of VISIT Florida turned down an invitation to attend the World Economic Forum's Urban Transfortation Summit in San Francisco.

Democrats blame GOP for Obamacare woes tied to pandemic-era subsidies

Democrats say GOP policies could push Americans off their health coverage, but some critics argue Obamacare's enhanced tax credits don't address the root cause of high healthcare costs.

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