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What's in the approved government funding bill
Glowimages/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After days of heated negotiations on Capitol Hill and eleventh-hour interference from President-elect Donald Tr...
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Biden to announce $4.28 billion in student loan relief for 55,000 borrowers
(Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden's administration will announce on Friday another $4.28 billion dollars...
Dec 20, 2024
Death row inmate Robert Roberson expected to speak before state House committee
Bo Zaunders/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, whose "shaken baby syndrome" murder conviction in the death ...
Dec 20, 2024
Trump endorses GOP leadership's spending deal that would avert shutdown
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed a spending deal that House Republican leadership said it had reached to...
Dec 19, 2024
Democrats dig in while GOP negotiates with themselves as shutdown looms
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday night that Republicans will "regroup" and "come up with a...
Dec 19, 2024
Trump says he gave permission to Elon Musk to trash GOP-proposed spending bill on X
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump, after rejecting House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avoid a government shut...
Dec 19, 2024
Potential government shutdown impacts: Millions of federal workers at risk of furlough
Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- If Congress fails to pass the continuing resolution to fund the government by Saturday, millions o...
Dec 19, 2024
Trump threatens government shutdown unless debt limit demand met, blames Biden if it happens
Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday took credit for killing the House Republican-proposed ...
Dec 19, 2024
Senate Republicans weigh in on new government funding challenges as clock ticks
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As President-elect Donald Trump's comments tanking House Speaker Mike Johnson's short-term government funding bi...
Dec 19, 2024
Trump backs House GOP accusation Liz Cheney tampered with Jan. 6 committee witness
Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the House Administration's subcommittee on Oversight,...
Dec 19, 2024