Sep 26 2019
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Non-whistleblower congressional news: the Senate easily passed a bill today to fund the government through November 21, averting a shutdown that would have begun after Monday. If Donald Trump feels like signing it, that is.
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Mar 1 2019
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More than a month has passed since end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and several hundred…
Feb 15 2019
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Less than 24 hours after announcing his intent to declare a national emergency in order to begin construction on a…
Feb 14 2019
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The White House announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign into law the long sought-after budget…
Feb 14 2019
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Congressional negotiators have finished hammering out a budget deal to prevent another government shutdown. The…
Feb 13 2019
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Democrats might be giving Trump $1.4 billion for parts of his border wall, but what about the other parts of this must-pass bill? There’s $1 billion for the 2020 census, a 1.9 percent pay bump for federal employees, and an exemption for sugar beet trucks in rural Oregon (fun!). As for if Trump will sign it, well...
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Feb 12 2019
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Congressional leaders have agreed to a deal to fund the government past this Friday, but given that they also did…
Feb 12 2019
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President Donald Trump, a man beloved by neo-Nazis who himself has dabbled in anti-Semitic tropes, demanded that…
Feb 11 2019
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Anther shutdown may be avoided after all! After a stall in negotiations last night, lawmakers in Congress now say…
Feb 10 2019
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Negotiations over border security legislation have stalled this weekend, increasing the chances that another…
Feb 3 2019
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The clock is ticking on the three week of reprieve from the longest government shutdown in history, and it’s getting…
Jan 31 2019
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As a committee of congressional Democrats and Republicans meet to hash out a new bill to keep the government open…
Jan 29 2019
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The (temporary) end of the government shutdown has been celebrated, understandably, as a victory for working people.…
Jan 28 2019
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In a brief flash of self-awareness, Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade admitted on Monday that President Donald Trump…
Jan 28 2019
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The shutdown was just as difficult for federal contractors—people who work for private companies that do business…
Jan 27 2019
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They could be bluffing. Regardless, Donald Trump and his minions in the administration continued this weekend to…
Jan 26 2019
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As Donald Trump’s government shutdown over a border wall dragged on earlier this month, one of his exclusive golf…
Jan 25 2019
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had reached a deal with congressional Democrats to reopen the…
Jan 25 2019
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The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights headed to New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Friday, and…
Jan 25 2019
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The government shutdown has now dragged on for more than a month, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers…