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Nearly Half Of House Republicans Voted To Shut Down The Government
Nearly as many House Republicans (106) voted to shut down the government, as voted to fund the government with a short term continuing resolution and keep it open (107).
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Hakeem Jeffries Devastates House Republicans At Press Conference
Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries was asked if Democrats are frustrated that they have to do the heavy lifting of governing while they are in the minority, and his answer was an indictment of Republican dysfunction and failure.
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White House Blasts House Republicans For Threatening Government Shutdown If The Border Isn’t Closed
The White House hammered House Republicans for threatening to shut down the government unless the border is closed.
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MAGA Mike Could Become Fired Mike As Johnson Walks Into McCarthy Trap
For all of his talk, Speaker Mike Johnson has proposed a government funding bill that is just like the one that got Kevin McCarthy booted and he’ll need Democratic votes to pass it.
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It Doesn’t Matter If Mike Johnson Went To Paris, Because He’s Failing As Speaker
The office of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is denying that he sent the House home early a week before a government shutdown so that he could go to a right-wing conference in Paris.
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House Republicans Are Already Falling Apart After Mike Johnson Election
It took House Republicans less than a day to be divided as Republicans in districts won by Biden say they won’t tolerate a far-right agenda from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
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Biden Has Clearly Had Enough Of Kevin McCarthy’s Lies
President Biden let some anger creep into his voice as he talked about how Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans tried to go back on the budget deal that they negotiated.
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Kevin McCarthy Gets Humiliated While Lying About Democrats On National TV
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) lied about Democrats not wanting the CR to pass, but Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan told him that Democrats voted for the bill.
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Nancy Pelosi Warns Democrats Not To Save Kevin McCarthy
Speaker McCarthy has backed down and is trying to pass a clean CR without Ukraine aid, but he needs Democratic votes, and former Speaker Pelosi is warning Democrats not to help him.
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Kevin McCarthy Thinks He Can Pass A CR (But Only If It Helps Putin)
Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Friday evening that he thinks he can pass a continuing resolution (CR) but only if Ukraine aid is taken out, so that it helps Putin.
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Kevin McCarthy Tried To Rally House Republicans Against Shutdown And It Blew Up In His Face
Speaker Kevin McCarthy tried to rally House Republicans to stand together against a government shutdown and it did not go well.
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Mitch McConnell Knifes Kevin McCarthy On Government Shutdown
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a message to Kevin McCarthy that he is all alone on the government shutdown.
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Kevin McCarthy Is So Screwed: The Senate Will Announce Bipartisan CR To Keep Government Open
Majority Leader Schumer said that Senate Democrats and Republicans worked through the weekend and came to an agreement on a short-term CR to keep the government open. Meanwhile, Speaker McCarthy continues to flounder.
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The Biden Campaign Rips Trump For Calling For A Government Shutdown
The Biden-Harris campaign hammered Donald Trump for calling for a government shutdown that will harm millions of Americans.
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Eric Swalwell Devastatingly Takes Down Kevin McCarthy
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that Kevin McCarthy is a spectator speaker who only care about his own job, and not those of millions of people who would be impacted by a government shutdown.
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Jim Jordan Demands That Jack Smith Be Defunded As Part Of Keeping Government Open
A microcosm of the mess that House Republicans have created was on display on Sunday when Rep. Jim Jordan said that the defunding of Jack Smith should be part of any CR to keep the government open.
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Chuck Schumer’s Next Move Could Cost Kevin McCarthy His Job
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will be looking to pass a short-term continuing resolution on Tuesday, if McCarthy passes the resolution in the House, it will cost him his job.
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Matt Gaetz Admits Republicans Want To Shut Down The Government To Protect Trump
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) let the cat out of the bag. Trump is directing the Republican shutdown chaos, and House Republicans are following along to protect the former president.
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Kevin McCarthy Has Reached An Unfathomable Level Of Failure
For the second time this week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has failed to pass a rule that would have allowed a defense spending bill to come to the House floor.
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Kevin McCarthy’s New Epic Flop Makes Him One Of The Worst Speakers In History
Kevin McCarthy could be the worst Speaker of the House ever, as he is urging House Republicans to support a government funding plan, so 12 of them immediately opposed it.
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White House Blasts House Republicans For Holding Impeachment Hearing 2 Days Before Government Shutdown
The White House has hammered House Republicans for announcing that a Biden impeachment hearing will be held two days before a government shutdown.
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Kevin McCarthy Handed Humiliating Defeat As His Own Republicans Block Defense Bill
Five Republicans broke ranks and blocked a rule that would have brought a defense spending bill to the House floor for a vote as the House majority collapsed.
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House GOPer Unloads And Calls McCarthy’s Majority A Clown Show
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) didn’t pull any punches when he was asked about the House Republican majority’s inability to pass a government funding bill. Lawler called the House majority a clown show.
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Kevin McCarthy Fumbles His Way Into A Government Shut Down Disaster
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had to cancel a planned procedural vote on a short-term government funding bill because he didn’t have the votes, which means that McCarthy still has no plans to keep the government open.
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Total GOP Insanity As Ron DeSantis Is Sabotaging Kevin McCarthy
As Kevin McCarthy is trying to get a government funding bill passed, Gov. Ron DeSantis is meeting with House Republicans and urging a shutdown.
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House Republicans Are Melting Down As McCarthy Dares His Own Caucus To Fire Him
Speaker Kevin McCarthy got his House Republicans into a meeting that was supposed to be about investigations then told them they have to fund the government and dared them to fire him.
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Kevin McCarthy Is Trying To Bribe House Republicans With Biden Impeachment
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is trying to avoid a government shutdown by bribing House Republicans with an offer of Biden impeachment.
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Biden Warns House Republicans On FEMA Funding
President Biden had a warning for House Republicans that he would make sure that the American people know who is to blame if FEMA runs out of money.
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House Republicans Threaten Government Shutdown Unless Congress Saves Trump
The House Freedom Caucus is threatening to shut down the government unless Congress stops the federal cases against Donald Trump and cuts off funding for Ukraine.
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Conservative Group Urges GOP to Oppose Spending Package, Which Would Cause a Government Shutdown
The conservative advocacy group Heritage Action, the sister organization of the Heritage Foundation, has urged Republican lawmakers to oppose a $1.5 trillion government spending bill, saying that to approve it would fund progressive priorities it is staunchly against.
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Schiff: Intel Chiefs’ Testimony Means Trump Can’t Declare National Emergency
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said this morning that new testimony from top U.S. intelligence officials such as Dan Coats would “undermine” Donald Trump’s ability to get money for building a border wall by declaring a national emergency. “Schiff suggests will use intel chiefs’ testimony if Trump tries national emergency card.†Schiff suggests…
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Trump Rockets to Record-High Disapproval in New Poll
Donald Trump may think he is winning his shutdown battle but a new poll from POLITICO shows that with each passing day his disapproval ratings are skyrocketing to new heights. People who participated in the poll say that Trump’s record-long government shutdown is bad for the country, and they are also increasingly concerned about Trump’s…
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Bernie Sanders Says Trump Speech Tried to ‘Create Fear and Hatred’
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont responded to Donald Trump’s primetime address by saying the president is working to “create fear and hatred in our country.” After Trump spoke from the Oval Office on border security Sanders said: “Sadly, what President Trump is trying to do is create fear and hatred in our country. Instead of…
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Trump’s Speech Gets Devastating Fact-Check On Fox News
Almost everyone rightly criticized President Donald Trump’s Tuesday prime-time speech pushing for a U.S.-Mexico border wall for its numerous lies and misrepresentations. Surprisingly, included in those critical of Trump’s speech were news commentators on Fox News. Fox News anchor Shepard Smith immediately and ruthlessly challenged many of Trump’s false claims, using the government’s own numbers…
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Mulvaney and Other Advisers Tell Trump to Stand Firm on Shutdown
Newly-appointed acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is advising Donald Trump to stand firm in his shutdown negotiations with Democrats. Mulvaney and other Trump advisers are telling the president he should not accept any deal from Democrats that does not include fully funding his plans for a border wall with Mexico. According to…
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Paul Ryan’s ‘Embarrassing’ Career Ends With A Whimper
There was a time, not that many years ago, when Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin symbolized the bright future of the Republican Party. When he was chosen to be the vice presidential running mate of Mitt Romney in 2012 he was seen as a brilliant young Congressman who understand the details of the federal budget…
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Trump: Government Won’t Open ‘Until We Have a Wall’
Donald Trump yesterday said that the partial shutdown of the federal government will last until Congress gives in to his demand for money to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Speaking to reporters the president said that the government is “not going to reopen until we have a wall.†The U.S. government partially shut…
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Trump Plunges Nation Into Chaos as Markets Tank
Democratic leaders of Congress blasted President Donald Trump yesterday for “plunging the country into chaos.†Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) issued a statement expressing their concerns about Trump’s behavior that have caused a drop in the stock markets and a government shutdown. “It’s Christmas Eve and President…
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Government Shutdown Will Be Prolonged by Republican Infighting
With Congress on break for a long Christmas weekend we know that Trump’s government shutdown will last until at least Thursday. If it goes on much longer than that it won’t be the fault of Democrats, however. It will because Republicans on Capitol Hill can’t agree among themselves how to end the impasse. Yesterday the…
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Democrats: Trump ‘Temper Tantrum’ Got Him ‘What He Wanted’
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) had harsh words for President Trump early Saturday morning over that they are calling “the Trump shutdown.†Thanks to Trump large parts of the federal government are being closed after Congress failed to pass legislation that would provide funding for his “ineffective…
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Wash Post: Trump’s Shutdown is ‘An Act of Needless Stupidity’
According to the editors of the Washington Post, people “go into public service to make sacrifices and to accomplish some good for their fellow citizens, not to be pawns in pointless political gamesmanship.†But  hundreds of thousands of federal workers who will have to work without pay over the holidays have become exactly that: pawns…
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Senate Prevents Government Shutdown With No Wall Funding
The U.S. Senate approved a temporary funding bill on Wednesday, preventing a partial government shutdown that was expected to begin on Saturday. The measure provides funding only until February 8. The move was seen as a defeat for President Trump who had insisted the bill should include funding for a border wall with Mexico The…
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Shutdown War Will Consume Washington This Week
The U.S. government has been pushed to “the brink of a partial shutdown,†according to the Associated Press (AP).  With both sides unwilling to budge, a compromise solution does not look possible. On the one hand, Donald Trump and his White House aides say that Congress must provide $5 billion to build a wall along the…
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Trump Will Face Pelosi and Schumer in a Showdown Over the Shutdown
Everyone knows that Donald Trump will try to blame Democrats if he shuts down the U.S. government. But Democratic leaders in Congress are having none of it. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer issued a joint statement Monday letting the world know the truth. They wrote: “Republicans still control the…
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Pelosi Reveals Plan to Avoid Government Shutdown With No Wall Funding
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California is likely to become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives when Democrats take control next year. At a press conference on Thursday she said that she did not support President Trump’s proposal to build a border wall with Mexico. She called the proposed border wall “immoral, ineffective, and…
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Trump Has a ‘Plan B’ if Congress Won’t Fund His Border Wall
During an Oval Office interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday Donald Trump said he has a backup plan he may implement if Congress rejects his demand for $5 billion in funding for his border wall. Such a backup plan might include the ongoing deployment of U.S. Army troops at the border and more extensive…
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Trump Threatens to Close the Border and Shut Down the Government
President Donald Trump on Thursday again threatened to close the southern border if the Mexican government doesn’t do more to provide border security. “If we find that it’s uncontrollable, if we find it gets to a level where we are going to lose control or where people are going to start getting hurt, we will…
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Madman Trump Still Threatens Shutdown: “I Think It’s a Good Thing, Politicallyâ€
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he still wants to shut down the United States government over his immigration and border security demands. Although almost everyone in his party thinks it’s a bad idea, he said, “I think it’s a good thing, politically.†To justify this misguided action which would harm the country and millions…
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Trump Tells Republicans That He Doesn’t Care About Losing Congress Over Government Shutdown
Trump blasted out a series of tweets that made it clear that he doesn’t care about losing Congress. He wants to shut down the government to get his wall.
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After Shutdown Threat Trump Demands Border Changes and ‘The Wall’
President Donald Trump on Monday called for increasing border security and overhauling the U.S. immigration system a day after he threatened to shut down the federal government if it were necessary to do that in order for him to get his way and to get Congress to pass the legislation he wants. The president tweeted…
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Maxine Waters Humiliates Trump By Calling His Shut Down Bluff
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) humiliated Trump after he threatened to shut down the government by calling his bluff and saying that the American people will not be bullied into paying for his wall.
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Trump Threatens Democrats With Government Shut Down Unless They Pay For His Wall
Trump tried to tweet tough by threatening a government shutdown before the midterms unless Democrats pay for his wall, but the problem is that any Trump driven shutdown would seal the deal on a Democratic midterm victory.
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Bannon Says Trump Will Shut Down Government Before Midterms
According to former presidential adviser Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump really wants his border wall with Mexico, and he will do anything to get it, including shutting down the U.S. government. Bannon’s remarks were made during a lengthy interview on CNN. We reported last Monday that Trump had told lawmakers in Congress that he will allow the…
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Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Over Budget
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting this morning that President Donald Trump has told lawmakers in Congress that he will allow the federal government to shut down before signing a spending bill like the one that he signed into law in March. A budget battle that tears apart the Republican Party is undoubtedly good news…
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Rachel Maddow Exposes Rand Paul As A Deficit Fraud Desperate For Attention
Rand Paul – a man who voted for a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy – is grinding the government to a halt for a few hours just to get some attention on cable news.Â
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Democrats Obliterate Rand Paul For Holding Government Hostage Over Phony Deficit Concerns
What’s obvious is that Republicans don’t truly care about the deficit – they never have. Instead, they use it as a political football to get some cable news coverage or boost their poll numbers in an election year.
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Trump Continues To Play with Dreamers’ Lives Over His Obsession With A Wall
If Congress fails to find a solution, (and that is likely) this means 800,000 people who were brought here as children, will be vulnerable to deportation proceedings and all the charm that ICE brings to the table.
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Dem Senator Says The Best Way For Congress To Govern Is To Pretend Trump Doesn’t Exist
- Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
Negotiating with Trump is a waste of time. Not only does he lack a firm grasp of the issues, but he often just agrees with the last person he spoke to.
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Trump Pens Op-Ed Bragging About Accomplishments Hours After He Shuts Down Government
Hours after Donald Trump’s actions led to a government shutdown, the president penned an op-ed touting his so-called accomplishments over the past year.
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Republican Strategist Blasts Trump, GOP Over Shutdown: ‘All Of This Is On Them’
- Donald Trump, Elections, Featured News, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
It’s going to be hard for Trump to convince the American people that the government shutdown is the Democrats’ fault when not even his own party agrees.
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With no deal in sight, Congress faces looming government shutdown
The U.S. Congress raced the clock to avoid a federal government shutdown before a midnight deadline on Friday after a meeting between President Donald Trump and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer failed to produce a deal.
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Bernie Sanders Bursts Into Laughter Over GOP Claim That Dems Don’t Care About CHIP
- Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
“These are the guys who wanted to cut Medicaid by $1 trillion over a ten-year period. These are the guys who wanted to wipe out completely the Affordable Care act and throw 32 million people off of health insurance.”
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House GOP Passes Cynical Spending Bill That Senate Democrats Are Already Planning To Smack Down
- Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Editors' Picks, Featured News, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives
Senate Republicans aren’t likely to win over enough Democrats to pass their cynical spending bill.
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Republicans Scramble After Trump Falls Out Of Bed And Blows Up Their CR With Fake News
Senate Republican leadership is scrambling to correct the false information that Trump put out via his Twitter account that has the GOP on the path to a government shutdown.
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Bernie Sanders Says A Majority Of Democrats Won’t Support Government Funding Bill Without DACA
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that Democrats oppose any government funding bill that doesn’t include protections for Dreamers.
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Democrats Have The Upper Hand In Government Shutdown Standoff Thanks To Trump’s Clueless Arrogance
Republicans are warning that Democrats have been given the upper hand in the government shutdown standoff because Trump has inaccurately claimed that Democrats will be blamed if the government shuts down.
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Trump Hides On A Golf Course, Attacks Dick Durbin, And Uses The Military To Cover His Racism
While hiding in his private club, Trump attacked Sen. Dick Durbin who he blamed for blowing up the DACA deal and tried to use the military as a shield to deflect his racism.
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Trump and Democrats face off over potential government shutdown
Trump and Congress are facing a deadline of midnight Friday to pass new spending legislation. If they cannot agree on the terms, parts of the federal government could shut down.
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Mitch McConnell Caught In A Massive Lie About Never Turning Down A Meeting With Obama
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that he never turned down a meeting with former President Obama, but McConnell was lying.
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Plane Banner Tells Chris Christie To ‘Get The Hell Off’ The State Beach He Shut Down
From one-time presidential front-runner to a disgraced – soon-to-be former – Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie sure has come a long way.
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Rachel Maddow Can’t Stop Laughing At The Trump Administration’s Epic Conference Call Meltdown
Not only was this another hilarious and epic failure for the Trump administration, but it begs the question: What can these people possibly do right?
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Elizabeth Warren Takes Trump To School On His Ignorant Proposal To Shut Down The Government
Warren called Trump’s support of a government shutdown “staggeringly irresponsible.”
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Trump Says He Prefers a ‘Good Shutdown’ to Making a Deal With Dems to Fund Government
Frustrated with having to “do a deal” to fund the government Trump whined, “Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”
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White House Tries To Spin Trump Caving on His Wall Funding As Bad for Democrats
The Trump White House tried to spin President Trump caving on the funding for his raison d’être, the Wall, as bad for Democrats.
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Trump Officially Gives Up On Wall Funding After Being Smacked Down By Border State Republicans
This is yet another huge loss for Trump, whose winless streak continues as the 100-day mark approaches.
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Sean Spicer Falls Apart And Can’t Say Why Trump Is Sure He Will Keep The Government Open
Why does Trump think “we’re in good shape?” And that he will get his healthcare bill and keep the government open? Sean Spicer can’t tell you why, exactly. Just that they are sure.
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House Democrats Hand Paul Ryan His First Defeat By Rejecting Republican Spending Proposal
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) needs Democratic votes to pass the Republican spending bill, but his first proposal was rejected by Democrats because it contained over 30 poison pill policy riders.
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Mitch McConnell Demands A Ransom That Obama Will Never Agree To In Debt Ceiling Fight
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for his vote to raise the debt ceiling.
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A Tea Party Fascist Will Be Second In Line To the Presidency By Halloween
The two leading candidates for House speaker are mirror images and both will dutifully follow the Ted Cruz shut-down-the-government agenda
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Democrats Save The USA As Majority Of Republicans Vote Against Keeping Government Open
Democrats have saved the country from another crisis, as it was Democratic votes that kept the government open after a majority of House Republicans voted against the CR.
Democrats Victorious As Senate Passes CR That Keeps Planned Parenthood Funded
Sen. Ted Cruz and a group of conservative House Republicans were defeated in their bid to link defunding Planned Parenthood to funding the government as the Senate voted 78-20 to pass a clean Continuing Resolution.
Republican Legislator Confesses That “The Crazies Have Taken Over the Party”
Peter King said Boehner’s resignation is “like throwing raw meat to some of these people…they’re just going to look for more.”
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Republicans In Freefall: Majorities In US and GOP Oppose Govt. Shutdown Over Planned Parenthood
The Republican Party is in disarray as a new Quinnipiac University Poll found that 69% of Americans and 56% of Republicans oppose shutting down the government over defunding Planned Parenthood.
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True Patriot Bernie Sanders Stands Up For Kids and The Troops As GOP Pushes Government Shutdown
Sen. Bernie Sanders is showing Republicans what a true patriot acts like by standing up for those who be hurt the most if the GOP shuts down the government.
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Obama Vows To Veto Republican Bill To Defund Planned Parenthood
While the Republican presidential candidates were grandstanding on Planned Parenthood, President Obama hit Republicans with reality when he issued a veto threat that promised to reject the GOP attempts to defund the organization.
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The American People Warn Republicans: Don’t Shut Government Down Over Planned Parenthood
A new poll contains a strong warning to Republicans from the American people that they will pay if they shut the government down over funding for Planned Parenthood.
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28 Republican Men Threaten To Shut Down The Government Unless Planned Parenthood Is Defunded
Twenty-eight Republican men are threatening to shut down the government unless women are denied critical health care services through the defunding of Planned Parenthood.
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Boehner And McConnell Rocked As Republican Disapproval Hits A Record High
A new Quinnipiac Poll has revealed that disapproval of Congressional Republicans has reached a record high and voters will blame the GOP if the government shuts down.
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Obama Drops The Hammer On Republicans, ‘Nobody Gets To Hold The American Economy Hostage.’
During a speech in New Orleans, LA, President Obama strongly told Republicans that he will not allow them to hold the economy hostage with another government shutdown.
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Wall Street Journal Warns Republicans Are Greatest Threat To America’s Economy
- Commentary, Elections, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
WSJ economists are fearful that Republicans will repeat their past “serious damage to the economy by harming consumer confidence”
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Donald Trump Humiliates Himself By Not Understanding The Senate Planned Parenthood Vote
During a radio interview, Donald Trump humiliated himself by seeming to have no idea what kind of vote the Senate was taking on Planned Parenthood.
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Ted Cruz Hands Democrats 2016 Victory With Government Shut Down Threat Over Planned Parenthood
Ted Cruz and House Republicans are teaming up to hand the White House to Democrats in 2016 by threatening to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood.
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Senate Democrats Have The Upper Hand And They Are About To Make Mitch McConnell Pay
Senate Democrats are getting ready to fire up the filibuster and make Mitch McConnell’s life miserable, as they are determined to make the Senate Majority Leader pay for trying to bully them into accepting the unpopular Republican agenda.
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President Obama Outplayed Republicans Again – So Stop Complaining
Once again, President Obama has out-maneuvered Republican plans to further wreak havoc on the nation, and although a clean funding bill would have been ideal, it was never going to happen because Republicans.
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Democrats Stand Tall Against Government Funding Bill And Force Boehner To Postpone Vote
Democrats are standing tall against the bill to fund the government. Speaker John Boehner lacks the votes for passage, so Republicans have delayed the vote.
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Drama Grips The House As Vote On Rule Advancing Government Funding Bill Passes By One Vote
The bill to avoid a government shutdown is barely living after a rule to needed to set up debate on the bill passed by a single vote.
Republicans May Cause Government Shutdown Over Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program
Republicans are going for the full monty of childish behavior. Gone are the real policy complaints. Now they stand naked before the nation demanding cuts to Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch program.
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House Republicans Freak Out And Claim John Boehner Is Screwing Over The American People
With days to go until the government could shut down, House Republicans are freaking out and claiming that John Boehner is trying to screw over the American people.
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Democrats Shouldn’t Save The GOP As Ted Cruz Pushes House Towards Government Shutdown
At a press conference, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pushed House Republicans to shut down the government, and Democrats should step aside and do nothing to stop the Republican Party from their latest act of self destruction.
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Boehner Has To Beg Democrats As His Plan To Avoid Government Shutdown Lacks Votes To Pass
John Boehner’s plan to avoid a government shutdown in eight days doesn’t have enough Republican votes to pass, so the Speaker will have to beg Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to bail him out.
