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Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Tuesday that the president does not get to decide whether furloughed federal workers are entitled to back pay. “It's not up to the president,” Kennedy told reporters,...
President Trump on Monday called on Democrats to reopen the government, saying he will only discuss a potential deal on extending health care tax credits once they support the GOP funding proposal. In...
A new poll shows most Americans say they believe the government shutdown will last for two weeks or less, as Congress grapples with the public fallout from the first shutdown in about six years. The Y...
White House correspondent Maggie Haberman on Thursday said GOP lawmakers are “quietly frustrated” by President Trump’s references to the conservative policy initiative known as Project 2025 during the...
The Trump administration’s plans to lay off thousands of federal workers and freeze federal grants during the government shutdown are getting pushback from some congressional Republicans. The moves wo...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) teamed up to release a Thursday video explaining why they voted against the House Republican-authored stopgap legislation. Its fa...
Congress will continue to receive paychecks while the government is shut down, but others won't be paid until it's over....
President Trump threatened his administration could take "irreversible" actions on programs if the government shuts down at midnight. “We don’t want it to shut down,” Trump told reporters in the Oval ...
Congressional leaders left a meeting with President Trump on Monday saying they'd made no progress toward a deal that would prevent a shutdown on Wednesday, increasing the odds the government's lights...
"Removing an item from the National Collection is not a viable solution..." ...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Democrats will not “write a blank check” to the Trump administration to avert a government shutdown. In a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the Marylan...
President Trump is set to meet with the top four leaders in Congress on Monday ahead of a Tuesday shutdown deadline, a notable shift after he canceled a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schum...
