Author: Kevin Freking
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Democrats are poised to trigger government shutdown if White House won’t meet demands for ICE reform
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are threatening to block legislation that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies Thursday, potentially bringing the government a step closer to a partial shutdown if Republicans and the White House do not agree to new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement. There…
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Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to force House vote on extending ACA subsidies
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans. The stunning move comes after House Republican leaders pushed ahead with a…
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House Speaker Johnson rebuffs efforts to extend health care subsidies, pushing ahead with GOP plan
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a GOP health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums millions of Americans will soon endure as pandemic-era tax credits for people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act expire at year’s end. Speaker Mike Johnson had discussed…
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House returns for vote to end the government shutdown after nearly 2 months away
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers made a long-awaited return to the nation’s capital on Wednesday after nearly eight weeks away to potentially put an end to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. The House is scheduled to take up a bill to reopen the government that the Senate passed on Monday night. President…
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Republicans swat down Democratic offer to end shutdown as impasse continues into 38th day
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer made the offer to reopen the government…
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Food aid at risk of expiring as effort to fund SNAP benefits fails in Senate
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders in Congress said it’s all or nothing on Wednesday as they rejected a Democratic push to carve out food aid funding for more than 40 million Americans who stand to lose it as part of the government shutdown. Democrats have repeatedly voted against reopening the government as they demand that…
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Vice President Vance says troops will be paid as pressure builds on Congress to end the shutdown
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week, but did not specify how the Trump administration will reconfigure funding in the second-longest government shutdown. “We do think that we can continue paying the troops, at least for now,” Vance…
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Trump says he’s open to health care deal with Democrats as shutdown hits Day 6
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he’d be open to striking a deal with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, cracking the door slightly to negotiations that Republicans have said should only happen after the government reopens. But Trump also said “billions and billions” are…
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What we know about how a government shutdown would unfold
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a government shutdown has become a recurring event in Washington, though most of the time lawmakers and the president are able to head it off. This time, however, prospects for a last-minute compromise look rather bleak. Republicans have crafted a short-term measure to fund the government through Nov. 21,…
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Republicans unveil a bill to fund the government through Nov. 21. Democrats call it partisan
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans unveiled on Tuesday a stopgap spending bill that would keep federal agencies funded through Nov. 21, daring Democrats to block it knowing that the fallout would likely be a partial government shutdown that would begin Oct. 1, the start of the new budget year. The bill would generally fund agencies…
