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🚨 #BREAKING: MULTIPLE Democrats have broken with their party to advance Speaker Johnson’s CR bill The 60 vote threshold has been met. SHUTDOWN AVERTED! pic.twitter.com/j81FB4LgSG — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 14, 2025 Ten Senate Democrats joined with Republicans Friday to advance a seven-month government funding bill, taking a key step toward averting a midnight shutdown. …
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America. Let’s be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this… — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) March 14, 2025 …
by Michael We certainly do live in “interesting” times. In all my years of writing, I have never seen a stock market correction, a global trade war and a government shutdown all happen at the same time. If the federal government does indeed shut down on Friday, we will complete that very impressive trifecta. Needless …
Green Party in Germany should be put under investigation for foreign influence. Nobody is that dumb, so corruption is more likely. https://t.co/zsm4Ixht8X — Kacper Piotr Kaminski (@Kacper_PK_CH) December 31, 2024
The House passed a stopgap package Friday evening that pushes the government funding deadline to March, as Congress races to avoid a looming deadline that would shut down the government in six hours. The package passed 366-34, with the support of 196 Democrats and 170 Republicans. It now moves to the Senate, where leaders are …
WASHINGTON — As Congress returns this week for one last burst of activity before it wraps up the session, it faces a key deadline of Dec. 20 to avert a government shutdown. Democrats and Republicans appear resigned to passing a continuing resolution, or CR, that would temporarily fund the government into early 2025 — most …
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a three-month stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown in 341-82 vote. The bill included $231 million for the Secret Service “to carry out protective operations including the 2024 Presidential Campaign and National Special Security Events.” The measure did not include the SAVE Act which requires proof of …
https://twitter.com/RaymieMark/status/1829162596492292106 What stage? https://t.co/nl1mq3RFPD — KKGB (@INArteCarloDoss) August 29, 2024 Pending Home Sales in the United States decreased 8.50 percent in July of 2024 over the same month in the previous year.https://t.co/NHmalX7Rux pic.twitter.com/WOKdO4kX1W — TRADING ECONOMICS (@tEconomics) August 29, 2024 The other sectors of the economy are pulling the rest of the weight, buoyed by …
A conservative-backed push for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting could complicate efforts to avert a government shutdown next month. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have acknowledged a stopgap of some kind, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), will be necessary to keep the government funded past Sept. 30. But calls are growing …
North Sea oil rigs threatened with shutdown unless they start running on green electricity. Currently, more than 280 platforms extracting oil and gas from UK waters produce 3pc of the country’s total emissions, the equivalent of about 17 million tonnes of CO2 a year. However, UK oil and gas fields also account for half of …
The House of Representatives is expected to take one step closer to ending a brutal, months-long fight over government funding on Wednesday with a vote on a nearly $460 billion spending package. The 1,050-page bipartisan legislation is a package of six bills dealing with departments and agencies whose funding expires on Friday – Agriculture and …
Congressional leaders agreed Wednesday to a funding deal that would prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend, extending the expiration dates for federal finances until later in March as lawmakers iron out the final details of a $1.7 trillion spending package. Roughly 20 percent of the federal government — including the departments of Transportation, Veterans …
Lawmakers leaving the meeting, which lasted about an hour, said it was worthwhile, even though it didn’t lead to any agreements that would avoid a partial government shutdown from beginning this weekend, or clear a Senate-passed package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. “It was a productive meeting on the government shutdown, we are …
Speaker Mike Johnson made “unequivocally” clear that he wants to avoid a government shutdown during a private Tuesday meeting with President Joe Biden and other congressional leaders, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Biden’s stalled request for Ukraine aid, however, remains more in doubt. With just four days to go until federal funding partially …
A full-blown government shutdown may be coming, if reported rumors circulating among top Republican lawmakers are true. In the power centers amongst the House of Representatives, there is chatter about a temporary stoppage of funding that could throw a wrench in the federal budget, according to a new Axios report. “People are predicting a shutdown,” …
BREAKING: House Republicans are taking a 2-week vacation in the midst of a national security threat and a mass shooting as yet another government shutdown looms. https://t.co/ZlvcNUsJOQ — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) February 14, 2024 And with that, the House will be done for the week by 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. Gone until Feb. 28. Shutdown March 1. …
Congress on Thursday passed legislation to keep the federal government open into March, approving the third stopgap spending bill in four months as lawmakers struggle to agree on long-term government funding plans. The bill extends deadlines to March 1 and March 8. Money for roughly 20 percent of the government — including the Transportation Department, …
Will House Republicans reach an agreement? It’s not clear that some of the most conservative lawmakers in Congress will support the latest push to avoid a government shutdown. A handshake deal between Johnson and Schumer announced this month, which largely resembled the agreement former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Biden struck last summer in …
by lol79 The things that are recently happening im Germany are with no doubts historic. It would sureli take hours and a book to writedown and explain all the connections. But in one short sentence, the Germans have been fucked over decades, and now they have had enough. Since the German farmers began protesting last …
Senate and House leaders announced on Sunday that they had struck an overarching agreement on 2024 government funding, but it was not clear whether they would be able to cement the deal and pass it into law in time to avert a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks. After weeks of negotiations and …
House Speaker Mike Johnson told colleagues on Sunday that Congressional negotiators have reached a topline spending figure to avert a federal government shutdown on Jan. 19 for some government agencies, and Feb. 2 for others. According to a Sunday “Dear Colleague” letter, the topline deal – which mostly adheres to a deal reached between the …
by confoundedinterest17 C’mon Joe. The media has always reported bad news. Warm and fuzzy doesn’t anger people, but bad news does! And under Bidenomics, there has been a lot of bad news. President Biden railed against corporate media before he and several family members headed by helicopter to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the …
The surge in congenital syphilis cases challenges the CDC’s claim that racism is the primary cause, as the numbers sharply increased regardless of racial disparities. In 2022 alone, cases rose to 3,700, leading to 51 deaths and 231 stillbirths. This alarming trend prompts a critical examination of the factors contributing to the epidemic. Simultaneously, the …
🚨 BREAKING: Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei says he will close the country's central bank “The closing of the Central Bank (BCRA) is non-negotiable.” pic.twitter.com/NdWicYf9ja — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 24, 2023 JUST IN: 🇦🇷 Argentina President Javier Milei confirms he will shut down the Central Bank. pic.twitter.com/MkHANrojKy — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) November 24, 2023 Newly Elected …
The Republican-held House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-part continuing resolution (CR) to avoid a government shutdown on Nov. 17. Johnson’s plan, the “Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act of 2024,” would temporarily extend a majority of federal funding through Feb. 2, as well as four other appropriations bills until Jan. …
Welcome to the toughest week yet for Speaker Mike Johnson. The Louisiana Republican must pass a funding measure this week that can win support from Democrats — including in the Senate and White House — or send the country into a paralyzing shutdown days before Thanksgiving. Privately, several House Democrats are predicting there will be …
Lawmakers will return to Capitol Hill this week with only a few days to avert a government shutdown. Under current congressional funding authorizations, the government is set to go into a shutdown on Nov. 17. When lawmakers return to the Capitol on Nov. 13, they’ll only have four days until this deadline. Every year, Congress needs …
Speaker Mike Johnson pitches Republicans on plan to avert government shutdown There are already a handful of Republicans who are skeptical of Johnson’s proposal to keep the government funded. At least two say they will vote against it. Reps. Chip Roy and Marjorie Taylor Greene said they’re a no. But would Democrats support it? “It’s …
Update (1755ET): After an afternoon of theatrics from Rep. Jamal Bowman (D-NY), it appears that the stopgap legislation to keep the government running through November 17 will now pass at the 11th hour. According to the Wall Street Journal, the bill to keep the government funded past 12:01 Sunday includes $16 billion in disaster relief, but does not include Ukraine funds. The House voted 335-91 …