The House rejected a short-term spending bill on Friday designed to keep the government open through the September 30 deadline, making a government shutdown almost inevitable.
American taxpayers will provide an additional $300 million for Ukraine’s war effort if a bill passed late Thursday night by the House becomes law.
Gov. Gavin Newsom faces pressure to quickly appoint a successor to late Sen. Dianne Feinstein as a government shutdown looms.
Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World” that her Republican colleagues’ inability to strike a deal to avoid a government shutdown was a “huge mess.”
The House of Representatives will vote this week to beef up border security and keep the government open, sparking a showdown with an obstinate Senate desiring the status quo at the southern border.
There will be a government shutdown if Joe Biden “stays on the sidelines while our border is destroyed” Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters.
Americans have “had enough” of Democrat policies “destroying” our economy and security, according to House Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who asserted that the GOP seeks a change in how Washington works and is genuinely trying to prevent a government shutdown.
The House of Representatives finally overcame a procedural hurdle Tuesday night to allow votes on spending bills after defeating a similar motion twice last week.
Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he would “strongly” consider supporting removing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) if he made a spending deal with House Democrats.
House GOP efforts to advance government funding vehicles that would exert the leverage of the party that controls just one half of one-third of government have thus far failed, and with a Sept. 30 deadline just days away, several top conservatives are concerned that the Republicans might have blown it.
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he believes Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will “end their political careers by shutting down the government for no reason.”
Katherine Clark plans to use Matt Gaetz’s effort to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy to end the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
A poll found that a plurality of Republican primary voters believe that the GOP would be blamed for a potential government shutdown.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) announced Wednesday he would not pass any short-term spending package to fund the government that includes additional funding for the Ukrainian war effort, just ten days before the federal government is set to shut down if a deal is not reached.
A coalition of moderates is quietly working on a government funding deal to avert or minimize a shutdown and leave House conservatives out to dry once again.
Conservative leaders are urging Republicans in Congress to take a government shutdown fight “head-on” and reject the Continuing Resolution.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) argued that we can’t push for spending levels below the two-year flat level agreed to in the debt limit deal because doing so would cause a shutdown, which is the
Nearly 30 percent of U.S. adults say they have been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime, and 17.8 percent say they currently have or are being treated for depression, a Gallup poll found.
The Biden administration seems keener on letting a U.S. debt default occur than coming to an agreement with Republicans to extend the limit, Kevin McCarthy has claimed.
Young adults under 30 and people in lower-income households report being lonelier than those in other groups, a Gallup News survey found.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is among House Republicans rejecting the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, concluding that Americans are sick of bad deals and promising to stand against the measure, as well as against senators who support it.
There are over 7,500 earmarks totaling $16 billion lawmakers are trying to negotiate to be in a year-long “omnibus” spending bill that would expire at the end of the current fiscal year — September 2023.
Key lawmakers on Tuesday announced that they had struck a deal on the framework for funding the government through the end of the current fiscal year, with government funding set to run out on Friday.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Thune (R-SD) responded to a question on the possibility of a government shutdown by stating that “anything right now is on the table” and whether a
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Thune (R-SD) argued that there need to be budgetary consequences for Congress failing to pass budget and appropriations bills and waiting until the end of the
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) stated that there is “a distinct possibility” of a government shutdown at the end of the week and that Republicans are serious about the border.
According to an excerpt from Jared Kushner’s forthcoming book exclusively provided to Breitbart News, then-President Donald Trump told his son-in-law and senior adviser that Trump would go to the mattress to fight for border wall funding.
The Senate passed a stop-gap funding bill on Thursday night, averting a government shutdown.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued that there’s a good chance that the federal vaccine mandate will either be struck down by the courts or that the Senate will
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that if he thought shutting down the government would eliminate the federal vaccine mandate, he would join with Senate Republicans who are pushing to defund
The Democrat-controlled federal government may shut down on Friday if a few Senate Republicans continue to insist that funding the government must address the needs of American families.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” House Budget Committee Ranking Member Jason Smith (R-MO) argued that the government needs to be funded without funding the vaccine mandates that the Biden administration promised “that they would never”
The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday demanded Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) support the initiative by some House and Senate Republicans to block a continuing resolution to fund the federal government, thereby withholding funds for enforcing the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate in private businesses.
The Democrat-controlled federal government will shutdown on Friday night while Republicans plan to use the Democrat-managed chaos to defund the nationwide vaccine mandate on the private sector.
The House Freedom Caucus formally informed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday that its members will not vote to fund the federal government while the Biden administration maintains vaccine mandates on government and private sector employees.
The House passed a government funding bill Thursday to avoid a government shutdown.
Senate Republicans blocked a government spending and debt ceiling bill Monday, setting up a dramatic showdown between Republicans and Democrats on whether Congress should raise the debt ceiling while Democrats plan to spend trillions on infrastructure and social spending.
Democrats on Thursday are panicking over the impending debt default and shutdown of the federal government with no backup plan in sight.
Thai sex workers staged a demonstration in Bangkok on Tuesday to protest the Thailand government’s recent Chinese coronavirus shutdowns, which the sex workers argue have cost them their livelihoods.
President Donald Trump declined to sign the coronavirus relief and stimulus bill on Saturday evening as he pushed for higher stimulus payments of $2000 rather than $600, meaning millions of Americans would exhaust their unemployment benefits.
