Republican lawmakers say Congress's near brush with a government shutdown shows that House Republicans do not have a functional majority, giving them a bad feeling about how difficult it will be to pass President-elect Trump's agenda in 2025.
While Republicans in both chambers broadly agree on the need to secure the border and extend Trump's expiring tax cuts, GOP senators fear that passing legislation to accomplish those goals, as well as raising the debt limit and cutting federal spending, will be enormously difficult next year. |
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President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week.
Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies were the ones wrestling with lawmakers over a continuing resolution as a government shutdown appeared increasingly inevitable. |
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BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND ARIS FOLLEY |
Lawmakers came together to fund the government on Friday, keeping the lights on in Washington until early next year and preventing a Christmas season shutdown.
The package — crafted by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — funds the government at current levels through March 14, extends the farm bill for one year and appropriates billions of dollars in disaster relief and assistance for farmers. The legislation came together after a chaotic week that featured four different spending proposals, influence from President-elect Trump and his close ally, Elon Musk, and questions about Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) future in the top job. Here are the winners and losers from the shutdown showdown. |
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BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND ARIS FOLLEY |
The House approved legislation to avert a government shutdown hours before the deadline Friday, sending the bill to the Senate for consideration after a whirlwind week on Capitol Hill. The chamber voted 366-34-1 in support of the legislation, clearing the two-thirds threshold needed for passage since GOP leadership brought the bill to the floor under the fast-track suspension of the rules process. All Democrats except one — Rep. Jasmine Crockett (Texas), who voted present — joined 170 Republicans in voting yes. |
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The Senate on Friday confirmed President Biden's 235th judicial nominee, surpassing the record of 234 judges confirmed during President-elect Trump's first term in office. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) marked the achievement after the Senate confirmed Serena Raquel Murillo to serve as district judge for the Central District of California. |
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President-elect Trump is asking a court to intervene in alleged sales of border wall materials, accusing the Biden administration of selling off the materials after it was required to do so by Congress. The new filing from the Trump team relies on reporting from the conservative Daily Wire, which said the Biden administration has been holding a "fire sale" of materials used to build the wall. |
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More than 30 House Republicans voted against the government funding bill to avert a shutdown on Friday night. The legislation cleared the lower chamber with a 366-34-1 vote, surpassing the two-thirds requirement needed as the Republican House leadership brought it up under the suspension of the rules process. Every member of the Democratic caucus, outside of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (Texas), who voted present, supported the modified funding package alongside 170 GOP lawmakers. |
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The Biden administration on Friday withdrew a pending regulation governing transgender athletes, abandoning an effort to provide some protections for transgender students that the incoming Trump administration has said it opposes. The administration also withdrew a proposal to cancel student debt for roughly 38 million Americans, which the Education Department said was due to "operational challenges." |
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President-elect Trump's onetime White House adviser Steve Bannon said in an interview he supports increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations. "I'm for a dramatic increase in corporate taxes. We have to increase taxes on the wealthy. For getting our guys's taxes cut, we've got to cut spending, which they're gonna resist. Where does the tax revenue come from? Corporations and the wealthy," Bannon said during an interview with Semafor that was published Friday. |
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OPINION | It has been almost five years since federal employees packed up their desk plants and office mugs and retreated to the comfort of their sofas. What started as an emergency measure to keep the government running during a pandemic has turned into a permanent remote-work free-for-all. The only problem is that it is not working anymore, if it ever did. It is high time for federal workers to hang up their pajamas, learn to tie their shoes again, and get back to the office. |
BY ADAM SATTERFIELD AND CHRISTOPHER GRIMM |
OPINION | "It's a security risk not to have it. At this point, we have to have it." With these urgent words, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall described his experience after flying in an AI-controlled fighter jet. His feeling reflects a growing consensus among defense leaders that artificial intelligence is not merely a technological luxury but an operational necessity for America's military supremacy. |
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BY MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF |
Justin Trudeau's career is the stuff of 21st-century political drama, with an arc that has taken him from glamorous liberal standard-bearer to the butt of jokes by President-elect Donald J. Trump and his acolytes. |
BY DREW HINSHAW AND JOE PARKINSON |
MI6 had a secret so sensitive that Slovenia's spy chief needed to fly to London to hear it in person. Somewhere in his tiny Alpine nation, a pair of elite Russian spies were hiding under deep cover. But the British intelligence agency couldn't—or wouldn't—tell him their names. The CIA had heard about them just days earlier. |
BY KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, SARA ABOUBAKR AND VANESSA GERA |
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Germans on Saturday mourned a violent attack and their shaken sense of security after a Saudi doctor intentionally drove a black BMW into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least two people, including a small child, and injuring at least 60 others. Authorities arrested a 50-year-old man at the site of the attack Friday evening and took him into custody for questioning. |
The Federal Reserve is starting to contend with how President-elect Donald Trump and his ambitious policies could reignite inflation in 2025. The central bank's leaders strive to protect their independence from the White House and avoid commenting on politics or policy proposals. Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell had said for weeks that it was premature to discuss the degree to which the president-elect's proposals — including higher tariffs, lower taxes and deportation of immigrants — would factor into its decisions on interest rates. |
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