Opinion
In the government shutdown battle, Chuck Schumer underestimated Mike Johnson
Johnson is often thought of as the accidental speaker. And it’s true that he was pulled out of quasi-obscurity after the caucus took down his predecessor Kevin McCarthy just 17 months ago. At the time ...
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Congress averts government shutdown after Senate passes stopgap funding bill
CNN By Morgan Rimmer, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...
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Senate OKs six-month funding bill hours before shutdown deadline
The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic ...
Republicans’ budget bill rules out federal earmarks for state projects
While Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King voted for the spending measure to avoid a shutdown, it eliminates millions of ...
Here Are the Senate Democrats Who Helped Republicans Avert a Shutdown
Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...
House Democrats to hold 'Day of Action' to push back against GOP-backed spending bill
House Democrats will hold a "Day of Action" across the country on Tuesday to push back against the GOP-backed spending bill ...
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Chuck Schumer apologizes for cursing Republicans on-air after supporting their funding bill
The remark came as Chuck Schumer defended his decision to support the GOP’s stopgap funding bill, which averted a federal government shutdown ...
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Democrats confront limits of their minority power after bruising shutdown vote
Senate Democrats were grim Friday as they left Washington after a brutal 10-week stretch that consistently showed the limits ...