The extension would give the Senate plenty of time to begin confirming Trump's Cabinet nominees and the House time to plot out maneuvers on tax legislation.
Government spending, leadership elections, and disaster funding are among the top priorities for lawmakers with less than two months left of the 118th Congress.
Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as the Republican ... need to keep the government open and deal ...
said. The Alabama Republican, who currently serves as policy chair of the House GOP conference, also pointed to national security concerns. “A governmentshutdown would embolden our enemies ...
House Republican leadership acquiesced on a budget stopgap funding the government through December, despite complaints from the party’s more conservative members. WASHINGTON (CN) — Congress ...
Democrats on Wednesday again helped Republicans get a short-term government funding bill over the finish line to avoid a governmentshutdown at ... pushed by Republican presidential nominee ...
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky ... “The one thing you cannot have is a governmentshutdown. It would be politically beyond stupid for us to do that right before the ...
"I'm all about weapons, not welfare, so let's go do that and scale back on the humanitarian aid going to Ukraine," Senator Joni Ernst told Newsweek. These GOP senators voted against the bipartisan ...