Barbara Lee: Allowing Musk to 'run our government really has grave consequences' for Americans
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) on Thursday accused billionaire Elon Musk of derailing a year-end spending deal. “Let's put this in context: This was a bipartisan agreement to move forward and keep the government open through March,” Lee said on CNN. “That unelected billionaire Elon Musk has now spoken out, tweeted from his cell phone and […]
Trump-Endorsed Plan To Avert Government Shutdown Fails In House Vote
member of the House of Representatives rejected On Thursday evening, House Speaker Mike Johnson's new stopgap funding bill passed 233-174. Thirty-eight Republicans, including Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy, oppose raising the debt ceiling without significant spending cuts or allowing $110 billion in disaster aid without offsets. For this reason, they voted against the new continuing […]
Hillary Clinton says Republicans are taking orders from ‘world’s richest man’ to shut down government
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on Thursday about Elon Musk's influence on the spending drama on Capitol Hill. “If you just want to catch up: Republicans, at the behest of the world's richest man, intend to shut down the government over the holidays, and just in time for the end of the […]
Trump-backed bill to avoid government shutdown to see imminent House vote
The House of Representatives is expected to vote soon on a bill backed by President-elect Trump to avert a government shutdown. The move comes after two days of chaos in Congress as lawmakers battled over the future direction of government spending, including a battle between President Trump and allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. also […]
Dems say 'hell no' to GOP Plan B on government funding, debt ceiling
House Democrats rallied overwhelmingly against a second assault on the government funding bill by Republicans, arguing that it would let the bill die on the House floor and force Republican leaders to return to the table to negotiate a bipartisan compromise. There is. Gathered behind closed doors in the basement of the parliament building, party […]
‘SUCCESS In Washington’: Trump Endorses House GOP Plan To Fund Government
President-elect Donald Trump supported an agreement by House Republican leaders to fund the government through March 2025 and raise the debt ceiling through 2027. President Trump's support for a House Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown follows his decision Wednesday to cut House Speaker Mike Johnson's initial stopgap funding. invoicewas heavily criticized by […]
House Republicans strike agreement to forestall government shutdown — and Trump wants it to pass tonight
House Republicans have reached an agreement on a path to avert a looming government shutdown, and President-elect Donald Trump is calling on all members of the chamber to pass it as soon as Thursday night. The new funding agreement keeps the government's lights on for three months, re-increases agricultural aid, adds a two-year suspension of […]
Will a government shutdown impact the stock market? Experts weigh in
Jonathan Honig, hedge fund manager at Capitalist Pig, reacted to the market selloff after the Big Money Show predicted the Fed would cut interest rates less in 2025. house Republican leaders are panicking A deal to avoid a partial government shutdown is expected to be reached by a Friday deadline, but experts say the shutdown […]
Republicans Should Not Be Afraid of Government Shutdown
Republicans shouldn't fear a government shutdown and should reject the controversial 1,547-page spending deal released Tuesday packed with pork and special giveaways, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. . “President Trump and the Republican Party should not fear a government shutdown. The next election is in two years,” he began. “In 1995, he was the […]
Mexican Government Requests Drug Lord’s Extradition for Journalist’s Murder
Mexican federal prosecutors have requested the extradition of a convicted drug lord who was recently re-arrested on new drug charges. Among the charges Mexico is prosecuting the drug lord is his role as one of the masterminds in the murder of famous Mexican journalist and author Javier Valdez. This week, Mexico's Attorney General Alejandro Gertz […]