Government shutdown live updates: Senate passes funding bill; Trump gives campaign-style speech at Justice Dept.
Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate ...
Senate passes DC funding fix to prevent $1 billion in cuts, shifting fight to House
The Senate on Friday passed a bipartisan fix to prevent an immediate $1.1 billion cut to the Washington, D.C.’s budget, sending the measure to the House to prevent an imminent ...
D.C. Appears Likely to Avoid a $1.1 Billion Budget Cut
The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to ...
Senate moves to reverse $1 billion cut to D.C. budget
Senate Democrats scored a minor victory with a fix to deep cuts to the District’s budget after ceding the broader government ...
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D.C. Faces $1B Budget Cut After Senate Passes National Spending Bill
The bill omits language allowing the District to spend its 2025 budget, essentially forcing the city to return to 2024 ...
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Senate passes fix to avert DC budget cuts
Senators voted Friday to pass legislation to prevent cuts to the District of Columbia’s local budget after city officials warned the District faced a $1 billion hit under a stopgap ...
Why was it hard for the GOP – which controls Congress – to pass its spending bill?
Without Democratic votes to break a Senate filibuster, the GOP would not have been able to pass its stopgap spending bill and ...
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The U.S. Has Spent $140 Billion on the Sentinel ICBM Project. Time for a Rethink.
At this point, trying to fix the Sentinel system may simply be a case of throwing good money after bad. America’s nuclear ...
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Chuck Schumer’s Flight-Over-Fight Instinct Is Leaving Democrats in the Lurch
The Senate minority leader appears to think the way to resist the Trump administration is by voting for the GOP's spending bill.
Carried interest: What to know about the tax ‘loophole’ Trump aims to end
It is conceivable that Trump could sway congressional Republicans to include a carried interest reform in the sweeping tax ...
Senate passes bill that would increase penalties for fentanyl traffickers
The Senate has passed a bill that would result in more prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers. Democratic and Republican ...