The Trump administration has ordered states to stop distributing full food assistance benefits after Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily blocked a lower court's decision directing the administration to fully fund food-stamp benefits amid the government shutdown.
Senate Democrats emerged from a two-and-a-half-hour caucus meeting Sunday night signaling there will be enough votes in the Senate to reopen the federal government after a grueling 40-day shutdown. A group of centrist Democrats led by Sen. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, and Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), negotiated the deal to reopen the...
Senate Democrats emerged from a two-and-a-half-hour caucus meeting Sunday night announcing there will be enough votes in the Senate to reopen the federal government after a grueling 40-day shutdown. A group of centrist Democrats led by Sen. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, and Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.),...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday vowed to oppose a new Senate deal in the works to end the nearly six-week government shutdown. In a statement, the Democratic leader dug his heels in on his party’s position that any legislation to reopen the government must include an extension of the enhanced Affordable Care...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who represents more than 144,000 federal employees in his home state, announced Sunday that he will support a deal to reopen the government even though it does not ensure an extension of enhanced health insurance premiums. The legislation would, however, require the Trump administration to restore the thousands of federal workers...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that he’s seen no formal proposal to overhaul the Affordable Care Act (ACA) despite President Trump’s latest call to nix the program and to direct the funds, instead, into the pockets of the American people. “We don't have a formal proposal,” Bessent said in an interview on ABC...
President Trump went to a Sunday evening NFL game featuring the Washington Commanders and Detroit Lions, according to pool reports. A post on the social platform X showed the president on the FOX Sports broadcast talking with commentators about the game. The president’s visit to the game comes after a report that he was pressing...