The House is set to vote tonight on a measure to reopen the federal government and end the record-long shutdown.
Republicans are largely supportive of the stopgap spending bill, while Democrats have criticized it for not extending health care subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) began the chamber's business Wednesday afternoon by swearing in Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) more than a month after she was elected. Follow The Hill's live coverage here |
The White House defended President Trump’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein, accusing Democrats of “selectively” releasing emails from the deceased sex offender that reference the president.
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Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been furloughed or working without pay since the government shut down on Oct. 1.
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House Republicans and Democrats alike slammed a provision in the shutdown-ending funding measure that would give senators the opportunity to earn significant amounts of money from litigation challenging the seizure of their phone records as part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack probe. Read more. |
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.), a rare Democrat who has defended President Trump at times, on Wednesday said new reports that the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Trump in detail in his emails is “absolutely troubling.” Read more. |
House Democratic leaders on Tuesday will propose a three-year extension of the soon-to-expire ObamaCare subsidies at the center of the shutdown fight.
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s (N.Y.) handling of the deal between centrist Democrats and Republicans to end the 42-day government shutdown has left some Democratic colleagues fuming over what they are privately calling weak leadership.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is seizing on a shutdown deal that has angered Democrats to bolster his standing as his party’s front-runner for the White House in 2028.
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The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee slammed a Senate-approved plan to reopen the government that would also pave the way for eight GOP senators to earn significant sums from litigation challenging the search of their phone records related to Jan. 6.
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