President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday called for Congress to abolish the debt ceiling, labeling it a “psychological” barrier and an unnecessary risk to the economy. Trump’s remarks came during a phone interview with NBC News, a day after he criticized a bipartisan short-term government funding deal. “Getting rid of the …
Read More »Chances for Government Shutdown Escalate After Trump and GOP Reject Stopgap Spending Bill
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 …
Read More »House Speaker Withdraws Spending Bill That Would Require ID To Register To Vote
Jennifer Shutt, Arkansas Advocate U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a six-month stopgap spending bill from heading to the floor for a vote Wednesday, scuttling efforts by the GOP to show solidarity behind their plan, which included a provision requiring ID to register to vote in federal elections. The spending …
Read More »Zelenskyy Pitches Congress On Ukraine Military Aid, But It’s Tied To Stalled Border Talks
Jennifer Shutt, Maine Morning Star Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy struggled Tuesday to convince members of Congress to approve billions in additional aid to his country at a crucial moment in the nearly two-year war with Russia. But the outlook was grim as lawmakers remained deadlocked on another piece of a …
Read More »Biden Signs Stopgap Spending Bill, Avoiding Government Shutdown
Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent President Joe Biden has signed the stopgap spending bill, giving his administration and Congress about two months to work out an agreement on the dozen annual spending bills. Those appropriations measures were supposed to become law by the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, …
Read More »Congress Sends Stopgap Spending Bill To Biden’s Desk, Averting Shutdown For Now
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder U.S. senators voted 87-11 to approve legislation Wednesday that would fund the government into next year, clearing the measure for President Joe Biden’s signature. The stopgap spending bill, sometimes called a continuing resolution or CR, would fund part of the government until mid-January and the rest …
Read More »House Passes Stopgap Spending Bill In Bipartisan Vote, In Crucial Test For New Speaker
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder The U.S. House took a broadly bipartisan vote Tuesday to fund the government into the new year, though the measure must pass the Senate by the end of the week if Congress is going to avoid a partial government shutdown. The 336-95 House vote was the first major …
Read More »House Pushes Through Israel-Only Aid Bill With Dim Future In Senate
Jennifer Shutt, Pennsylvania Capital-Star The U.S. House on Thursday approved a $14.3 billion spending bill to aid Israel in its war against Hamas, but the measure stands no chance of passing the Senate and has elicited a veto threat from the White House. The 14-page bill, one of the first …
Read More »‘If We Elect Clowns, We Get a Circus’: Congress Narrowly Avoids Shutdown, For Now
A government shutdown was averted Saturday night after the Senate voted 89 to 9 to approve a stopgap spending measure passed by the House of Representatives that afternoon. The agreement funds the government for 45 days and includes an additional $16 billion in disaster funding as New York City mops …
Read More »Ditching Ukraine Aid, House In Bipartisan Vote Passes Bill To Avert Shutdown
Jennifer Shutt, Pennsylvania Capital-Star The U.S. House approved a bill Saturday that would stave off a government shutdown until at least mid-November, though the measure doesn’t include Ukraine aid backed by both Republicans and Democrats. The bipartisan 335-91 vote to send the bill to the Senate took place with less …
Read More »Government Shutdown Nears: House GOP Fails To Pass One-Month Spending Plan
Jennifer Shutt, Nebraska Examiner A sweeping government shutdown appeared inevitable on Friday, with the U.S. Senate stuck in a procedural holding pattern on its bipartisan stopgap bill and divided U.S. House Republicans unable to pass their short-term spending bill. Both chambers of Congress must approve and President Joe Biden must …
Read More »With Two Days Until Shutdown, Border Security Package Eyed By Senate GOP
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Republican U.S. senators huddled behind closed doors Thursday, attempting to draft an amendment to the short-term government funding bill that would increase spending on border security and make policy changes. The provision could help nudge U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to put the broadly bipartisan measure …
Read More »McCarthy Vows No Vote for Bipartisan Senate Spending Bill as Shutdown Looms
Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday said he will not call a vote on the bipartisan stopgap funding bill hashed out in the Senate in a bid to avert a looming government shutdown—a move slammed as “insane” by the Congressional Progressive Caucus chair. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told …
Read More »Progressives, Democrats Unleash on GOP Over Government Shutdown Chaos
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Just 10 days away from a potential U.S. government shutdown, calls for bipartisan action to prevent it are mounting, as is outrage over Republicans in the House of Representatives who seem content with causing chaos. “What we want is simple: No cuts. No layoffs. No shutdown,” …
Read More »House GOP Spending Bills Falter As Congress Struggles To Avoid A Shutdown
Jennifer Shutt, Arkansas Advocate U.S. Senate Democrats said Tuesday they are preparing their own short-term spending bill that they believe will garner bipartisan support, a decision that could stave off a partial government shutdown — and as House Republicans failed to advance two spending bills. The Senate move would work …
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