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The House finally passed a stopgap funding extension Friday, hours before the midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats moved off their opposition to anything but the larger bipartisan package that President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed earlier this week. The 366-34 vote was enough to top the two-thirds majority threshold […]
House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle joined together to reject Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest stopgap funding package Thursday night, with one day to spare before a partial government shutdown is set to begin. The House voted 174-235 against the package under suspension of the rules, which requires two-thirds support from those present and voting for […]
WASHINGTON — Efforts to prevent a partial government shutdown from starting this weekend fell apart Wednesday when numerous Republicans, on and off Capitol Hill, expressed their frustration with the many extraneous provisions added to a short-term funding package. Complicating the situation, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance posted on social media that he and President-elect Donald Trump believe Republicans […]
President-elect Donald Trump lobbed a grenade into Speaker Mike Johnson’s carefully negotiated, catchall legislative package late Wednesday, urging Republicans to scrap the massive stopgap funding measure in favor of a stripped-down version with aid to farmers and natural disaster victims. There’s another new wrinkle: Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance said they want a debt ceiling […]
A spending bill U.S. House appropriators released Tuesday evening to keep the government open into next spring includes a provision to allow sales of a gasoline blend that includes up to 15% ethanol nationwide throughout the year. After years of prohibiting the blend, known as E15, from being sold at gas stations during the summer months, […]