By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, hoping…
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By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has entered its 36th day, breaking the record as the longest ever and disrupting the lives of millions of Americans with federal…
By Stacy Robinson Two federal judges on Oct. 31 said the U.S. Department of Agriculture is legally required to use emergency funds to pay out…
By Etienne de la Boetie2 by Ross Ibbetson, Associate Editor And Elena Salvoni, Senior Foreign News Reporter The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been forced…
By Curtis Houck Grant him this, dear readers. On Tuesday, CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper was all of us in having to deal with the middle-aged,…
By Scott McClallen Starting Nov. 1, about 41 million people might not get their food benefits. Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate have voted 12 times…
By Jorge Bonilla CNN’s much-hyped Shutdown America town hall was, by and large, little more than an extended infomercial for socialism in America, with Kaitlan Collins acting…
By Adam Pack and Melissa O’Rourke The White House began conducting mass layoffs on Friday amid a prolonged government shutdown, including slashing an entire department…
By Adam Pack Two New Yorkers came to verbal blows on Wednesday afternoon over Democrats’ refusals to reopen the government as the shutdown drags on…
By Danielle Senate Republicans on Tuesday confirmed over 100 of President Trump’s nominees despite the ongoing federal government shutdown. In a party-line vote, the upper legislative…
By Matt Margolis Even NBC’s Meet the Press couldn’t ignore the Democrats’ stunning hypocrisy over the government shutdown fight—and Hakeem Jeffries found himself on the defensive when…
By Elizabeth Weibel President Donald Trump vowed that he would get United States military service members “every last penny” as the government shutdown stretched into…
By Tyler Durden Update (1320ET): As we mentioned earlier, Democrats voted for a full-blown government shutdown, which has inadvertently given the Trump administration the greatest gift ever: the…
By Hannah Knudsen Democrats shut down the government for “purely political purposes,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily. Burgum began…
Democrats say they’re protecting health care subsidies, which Republicans say would restore loopholes that let illegal immigrants access taxpayer-funded care. By Tom Ozimek Partisan deadlock…
By Sundance Vice President JD Vance and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hold a press conference on the first day of the federal government…
By Adam Pack and Andi Shae Napier Senate Democrats blocked a clean extension of government funding late Tuesday evening, but a handful of Democrats bucked…
Stewart: Dems ‘Shut Down the Government’ to Protect Subsidies for Marketplace That Makes Insurance Companies Rich
By Ian Hanchett On Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Monday, host Jon Stewart stated that Democrats are in a position where “we’ve shut down…