Democrats’ split decision on how to handle health care subsidies is further inflaming tensions within the party. Behind closed doors on Wednesday, a Nevada Democrat implored her House colleagues to “stop pissing on each other and start pissing on” Republicans over the shutdown deal, according to two people familiar with her remarks. They weren’t all … Read more
There will be votes on the House floor and in the Judiciary Committee next week related to the controversial language in the government funding package. Speaker Mike Johnson said he told Senate Majority Leader John Thune he strongly disagreed with the Senate GOP’s inclusion of a provision in the government funding package allowing senators to … Read more
The Chicago-area federal judge also made clear he wants detailed reports about more than 600 people being held. CHICAGO — A federal judge Wednesday ordered the release of more than 300 people detained by the federal government as part of the federal immigration enforcement operations being conducted in the Chicago area. Attorneys say the government … Read more
The conversations with members will also focus on the fate of expiring Obamacare tax credits. House committee chairs will begin having listening sessions next week with groups of Republican members on health care policy and the fate of expiring Obamacare subsidies. Members need to be heard out, said a person granted anonymity to describe internal … Read more
Democrats pushing the discharge petition predicted that Republicans would rush to support the measure once it hit the floor. Republicans are bracing for a significant chunk of the conference to vote for Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) Epstein file disclosure bill once it lands on the House floor. Senior Republicans privately … Read more
The House is expected to pass a funding package and send it to the president’s desk Wednesday night. Millions of low-income Americans should receive full food aid benefits within a day of President Donald Trump signing Congress’ shutdown-ending deal into law, the administration said. Once the government is open, most states will get the funds … Read more
President Donald Trump signed the legislation later in the evening, ending the historic funding lapse. The House passed a government funding package late Wednesday that will close out the longest shutdown in history. Members returned to Washington after a 54-day recess to vote on the shutdown-ending bill brokered across party lines in the Senate. They … Read more
He said the FBI asked Dana Williamson last year to assist with an investigation into Newsom, but that she “had not seen any misconduct by the governor of any kind.” The attorney for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s embattled former chief ripped her arrest on Wednesday as “grandstanding” by the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump. … Read more
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to cap rent increases for most apartments, a decision that continues a wave of tenant victories in the city and across the country. For the first time in decades, the Los Angeles city council overhauled its rent control rules on Wednesday, sharply lowering the annual rent increases facing … Read more
President Isaac Herzog said the violence committed by a “handful” of perpetrators “crosses a red line.” JERUSALEM — Israel’s president and high-ranking military officials on Wednesday condemned attacks a day earlier by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, calling for an end to a growing wave of settler violence in the occupied territory. … Read more