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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House finally approved a stopgap spending bill Friday night that will keep the government open for a few more months, after a raucous 48 hours that served as a preview of what President-elect Donald Trump’s second term in office might look like. The short-term spending package, the third version of a […]
US President-elect Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers Wednesday to scupper a cross-party deal to avert a fast-looming US government shutdown. Staring down a Friday night deadline to fund federal agencies, party leaders in Congress had agreed on a “continuing resolution” (CR) to keep the lights on until mid-March and avoid having to send public workers […]
President-elect Trump on Wednesday came out against the 3-month spending stopgap introduced by House Speaker Mike Johnson to avoid a government shutdown. Why it matters: Trump’s opposition could torpedo the bill just two days before the deadline to keep the government running. He further complicated matters for GOP leadership on the Hill with a surprise […]
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders on Tuesday evening released the text of a short-term bill to keep the federal government open until March 14, rolling it out just days ahead of a key deadline to prevent a shutdown and after numerous delays. Funding expires at the end of Friday, when the House and Senate are hoping […]
US lawmakers have to agree on budgets that are subject to a 60-vote threshold in the Senate. (EPA Images pic) WASHINGTON: US lawmakers scrambled today to reach an agreement on funding federal agencies through the New Year to avert a damaging government shutdown due to begin in just seven days. Out of time to finalise […]
The Biden administration has set a mid-November deadline for Israel to deliver more humanitarian supplies to the enclave or face a cutoff of weapons aid. Source link
Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s atmosphere at 60,000 kilometres per hour and hammer into the ground, vaporising anything it touches. With millions of asteroids hurtling through the […]