The House moved swiftly early Friday to reopen the federal government and pass a $400 billion budget deal, overcoming opposition from both liberal Democrats and tea party conservatives to endorse enormous spending increases despite looming trillion-dollar deficits. The 240-186 vote came in the pre-dawn hours, putting to bed a five-and-a-half […]
Senate leaders reach a deal on 2-year budget deal
The Senate’s top Republican says there’s Senate agreement on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the pact, joined on the Senate floor by top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York. It […]
GOP presents plan to avert gov’t shutdown
House Republican leaders have come out with a plan to keep the government open for six more weeks while Washington grapples with a potential follow-up budget pact and, perhaps, immigration legislation. GOP leaders announced they would seek to pass the stopgap spending bill by marrying it with a full-year, $659 […]
Federal employees fear potential of another shutdown
The swift steps ending a messy and expensive government shutdown set the stage for hundreds of thousands of federal workers to return Tuesday, but some say they fear they could find themselves in limbo again in a few more weeks. Congress sped toward moving to reopen government after Democrats reluctantly […]
Davos departure delayed amid government shutdown
The White House said Monday that Cabinet members are delaying their departure for this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland amid the federal government shutdown. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said they will determine what to do “as the day goes on and as we see how the next […]
Government shutdown nears as Dems vow to filibuster
On the edge of a government shutdown, a divided House voted late Thursday to keep the government open past a Friday deadline — setting up an eleventh-hour standoff in the Senate, where Democrats have vowed to kill the measure. The partisan roadblock in the GOP-controlled Senate left just a day […]
Establishment GOP budget plan is facing a MAJOR obstacle
Congress and the President Donald Trump White House are facing another government shutdown — but, this time things are different and Washington is on the edge. Hard-line conservatives are threatening to scuttle establishment Republican leaders’ plans to prevent a weekend government shutdown. GOP leaders lack the votes to push their […]
Christmas shutdown avoided, Congress plans for 2018
Another victory for President Donald Trump in 2017! The Republican-led Congress passed a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, healthcare and the budget to next year. The measure passed the House on Thursday on a 231-188 vote […]
GOP debuts new spending bill to avoid government shutdown
House Republicans early Thursday unveiled a new, stripped-down spending bill to prevent a government shutdown this weekend and allow quarreling lawmakers to punt most of their unfinished business into the new year. The bill would stave off a government shutdown through Jan. 19 and permit lawmakers to head home for […]
Trump signs short-term spending bill, shutdown avoided
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and keep the federal government running through Dec. 22. The president signed the two-week spending measure in private at the White House after the House and Senate acted to prevent a government shutdown this weekend. The […]