House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries laid out a new ultimatum for a government funding deal Wednesday, telling reporters Wednesday that an agreement addressing health care has to be “ironclad and in legislation” to win Democratic support ahead of next week’s shutdown deadline. Jeffries’ position escalates the odds that agencies could shutter on at midnight Sept. […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer placed onus on Republicans to avert a government shutdown Wednesday and urged President Donald Trump to meet with Democrats to negotiate ahead of the looming Tuesday deadline. In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Schumer said he was hopeful the Senate could achieve a stopgap bill by next week but […]
Any resolution to the shutdown standoff now gripping Capitol Hill will have to involve senators from both parties locking arms. It would probably help if the two top party leaders in the Senate would start talking to each other first. Instead, a frosty pall has settled over the working relationship between Majority Leader John Thune […]
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill were already looking at a messy political battle over the looming expiration of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies. Then the anti-abortion advocates showed up. With a possible government shutdown less than a week away, Democrats’ big ask is that Republicans agree to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which […]
House centrists are discussing the outlines of a possible compromise to extend Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies in hopes of jump-starting stalled talks over the soon-to-expire tax credits that have also emerged as a key fault line in the brewing government shutdown battle. The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus has privately broached whether an income cap […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is about to confront one of his biggest leadership tests yet, courtesy of voters in southwest Arizona. They are highly likely to elect a new Democratic House member in a special election Tuesday. That would-be lawmaker, Adelita Grijalva, told POLITICO she plans to become the 218th and clinching supporter of a bipartisan […]
A failed effort to punish Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for comments about Charlie Kirk led to more squabbling Monday among two Republicans. Rep. Nancy Mace attacked Rep. Cory Mills for voting against the measure with a series of social media posts, calling attention to previous reports alleging that the Florida lawmaker has exaggerated his war […]
President Donald Trump will meet this week with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to discuss government funding ahead of a looming shutdown deadline, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss the plans, which have not been publicly announced. It was not immediately clear when this week the sitdown […]
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that the administration is “advocating” to keep the government open amid a congressional funding fight, though she preemptively blamed Democrats for any potential shutdown. “If the government is shut down, it will be the fault of the Democrats, and it will only hurt the most vulnerable in […]
On one side is the minority party, using what little leverage it has — a looming government funding deadline — to push for priorities it can’t enact otherwise. On the other is the majority, insisting a short-term funding punt is no place for negotiation. If that sounds familiar, that’s because just such a scenario has […]