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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More than a month has passed since end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and several hundred…
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The White House announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign into law the long sought-after budget…
Congressional negotiators have finished hammering out a budget deal to prevent another government shutdown. The…
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...
Congressional leaders have agreed to a deal to fund the government past this Friday, but given that they also did…
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President Donald Trump, a man beloved by neo-Nazis who himself has dabbled in anti-Semitic tropes, demanded that…
Anther shutdown may be avoided after all! After a stall in negotiations last night, lawmakers in Congress now say…
Negotiations over border security legislation have stalled this weekend, increasing the chances that another…
The clock is ticking on the three week of reprieve from the longest government shutdown in history, and it’s getting…
As a committee of congressional Democrats and Republicans meet to hash out a new bill to keep the government open…
The (temporary) end of the government shutdown has been celebrated, understandably, as a victory for working people.…
In a brief flash of self-awareness, Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade admitted on Monday that President Donald Trump…
The shutdown was just as difficult for federal contractors—people who work for private companies that do business…
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They could be bluffing. Regardless, Donald Trump and his minions in the administration continued this weekend to…
As Donald Trump’s government shutdown over a border wall dragged on earlier this month, one of his exclusive golf…
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had reached a deal with congressional Democrats to reopen the…
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The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights headed to New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Friday, and…
The government shutdown has now dragged on for more than a month, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers…