House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries slammed the AI-generated deepfake video posted online by President Donald Trump Monday night as “racist and fake.” “Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video,” Jeffries told reporters Tuesday. “When I’m back in the Oval Office, […]
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All signs point to the government shutting down at midnight Tuesday night. Just when Monday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and congressional leaders brought a glimmer of a potential offramp — the president expressed openness to extending Obamacare credits, Democrats’ asking price — it was back to the status quo hours later. Trump posted a […]
A government shutdown is looking increasingly likely, and Congress is set to experience the self-inflicted pain of the institution’s inability to pass a spending bill to fund its own operations. During the last, partial shutdown, which began at the very end of 2018 and concluded 35 days later, a legislative branch appropriations bill had already […]
If a government shutdown wasn’t already exceedingly likely, President Donald Trump might have made it a near certainty Monday night. The president posted a vulgar AI-generated deepfake video to his Truth Social slamming the top Democratic leaders — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — just hours after he hosted […]
Congressional leaders left a high-stakes Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump without a breakthrough Monday, greatly raising the likelihood of a government shutdown starting early Wednesday morning. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters at the White House that “there are still large differences between us.” “Their bill has not one iota of Democratic […]
Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans on a conference call Monday that they need to stick together to force Senate Democrats to swallow the seven-week stopgap bill the House passed last week, according three people granted anonymity to describe the private call. Johnson said he plans to bring the House back into session next week, […]
A top White House official said President Donald Trump will push congressional Democrats to back a House-passed stopgap bill during an Oval Office sitdown Monday — less than 48 hours before a possible government shutdown. The strategy leaves a gulf between what Republicans are demanding and Democrats’ hope that Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune […]
A coalition of federal unions are calling on Democratic leadership to fight back against budget cuts to “critical public services,” even if it leads to a government shutdown and mass layoffs. In a letter to minority leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Federal Unionists Network and 35 local, council and national unions […]
President Donald Trump and congressional leaders appear primed for conflict ahead of Monday’s 3 p.m. White House meeting, with less than two days to go before a shutdown. And there’s no sign that either side plans to blink. Here’s a quick rundown — with some news — of where all parties stand. Speaker Mike Johnson […]
Congress is locked in a staring contest with less than 48 hours until the government shuts down. There’s no sign either side plans to blink. The standoff is raising the odds that agencies will at least partially shutter for the first time since 2019, when President Donald Trump backed down from a record 34-day shutdown […]