Category Archives: Republicans

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House GOP Moves to Block Potential Challenges to Trump Tariffs

House Republicans will move Tuesday to block Democrats from forcing a painful vote on Donald Trump’s tariffs as the president amps up the US trade war with Canada.

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Author: Alicia Diaz,Erik Wasson

House Republicans push Trump-backed bill to avoid shutdown, sparking backlash

High-stakes vote puts GOP lawmakers at odds with Democrats over cuts to social services and military boosts

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Author: Joseph Gedeon

House Republicans Work to Hold Together in Vote on Spending Bill

Republicans were pressing rank-and-file lawmakers to fall in line behind a stopgap measure that would mostly keep government funding at current levels through September.

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Author: Catie Edmondson

This GOP Fight Will Determine How Many Kids Go Hungry

Congress and the White House want to cut food benefits. Governors and lawmakers in red states are shoring them up.

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Author: Mary Ellen Klas

Trump vows to ‘lead the charge’ to oust Massie

President Trump is vowing to “lead the charge” to unseat Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.), who has said he will not support the GOP’s short-term government funding bill ahead o…

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Author: Alex Gangitano

Live updates: House plans vote to avert government shutdown early in Trump’s term

The latest news on President Donald Trump’s administration as the House is expected to vote on a continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown.

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Author: The Washington Post

Live updates: House to vote on funding bill to avoid shutdown; Ukraine’s Zelenskyy meets with Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia

The House is expected to vote on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s short-term government funding bill ahead of a Friday deadline to avoid a shutdown.

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Author: NBC News

Amy Coney Barrett: The GOP’s Supreme Court lifeline turned Maga enemy No1

Justice has provoked ire from president’s supporters after voting to reject his freeze on foreign aid

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Author: Kieran Kelly

Trump vows to “lead the charge” to unseat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie

The libertarian congressman has said he won’t vote for the short term spending measure Trump is pushing.

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Author: Andrew Solender

Free-market conservatives are now an endangered species in America

Under the leadership of Donald Trump, the US Republican Party has more or less turned its back on free-market economics. This divide is reflected among its supporters too. But a grand reckoning at some point is inevitable.

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Author: mint

Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to halt climate change lawsuits in Democratic-led states

The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states.

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Author: Mark Sherman

Trump backs temporary funding bill that would avert government shutdown

President tells Republicans to support measure boosting defense and deportation budgets before Saturday deadline

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Author: Joseph Gedeon

GOP-led Congress races to avert government shutdown ahead of Friday deadline

Speaker Mike Johnson is eyeing a Tuesday vote in the House for a stopgap funding bill, but the path to passage in both chambers of Congress remains murky.

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Author: Sahil Kapur,Scott Wong,Frank Thorp V

House Freedom Caucus Backs Stopgap Bill to Avert US Shutdown

The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus threw its backing behind a stopgap funding package, bolstering Speaker Mike Johnson’s attempt to pass the bill without the help of House Democrats and avert a government shutdown on March 15.

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Author: Erik Wasson

House Rules Committee advances GOP’s stopgap ahead of shutdown deadline

The House Rules Committee voted Monday night to advance the GOP’s bill to avert a government shutdown, dispatching the measure to the full chamber for consideration ahead of Friday’s de…

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Author: Mychael Schnell

Trump is cancelling a Republican project to wipe out Aids – putting millions of lives at risk

Millions of people worldwide are likely to lose access to anti HIV drugs, and thousands more people could die, after the US cut project funding.

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Author: Michael Jennings

House GOP conservatives make plea to ‘hesistant’ moderates on Medicaid changes

House Freedom Caucus Republicans want colleagues not to fear making the most aggressive cuts to finance their party-line bill.

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Author: Ben Leonard

Johnson and Jeffries hold the line ahead of government shutdown vote

House Democrats can vote “no” and hope “yes” on a six-month spending package.

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Author: Hans Nichols,Andrew Solender

The two big questions looming over the shutdown fight: From the Politics Desk

Plus, the stock market takes a tumble. And previewing the Rubio-Zelenskyy summit.

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Author: The Politics Desk

Nail-biter spending vote could hinge on Trump-district Democrats

Centrist Democrats are keeping ‘em guessing. Heading into Tuesday’s vote to fund the federal government, almost a dozen House Democrats in Trump-won districts have yet to reveal if they’ll join Dem…

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Author: Mike Lillis,Aris Folley

Will there be a government shutdown? House GOP battles deadline, tiny margin

Congress has until 11:59 p.m. Friday to avoid a government shutdown.

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Author: Sudiksha Kochi

U.S. Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Climate Lawsuits

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Republican-led states to block lawsuits brought by Democratic-led states seeking to hold oil and gas companies accountable for climate change

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Author: Alex Kimani

Supreme Court won’t hear climate change lawsuit by Drummond and 18 other attorneys general

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday it won’t hear a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and 18 other attorneys general in a challenge to climate change lawsuits brought by Democratic-led states against the oil and gas industry. Drummond and the other attorneys general filed suit last spring contending California and four

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Author: Oklahoma Energy Today – Energy News Just A Click Away

Live updates: GOP-controlled Congress seeks to avoid government shutdown early in Trump’s term

The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.