US Senate Poised to Pass Republican Stopgap Spending Bill, Avert Shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce.
Many Democrats had agitated for the party to hang together and block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the ...
Senate Democrats have "agonized" for days over what "many of them described an impossible choice between two evils ." Those ...
Democratic lawmakers and veterans’ groups are fuming over a provision in a stopgap federal spending bill passed by House Republicans this week that would cut a Department of Veteran Affairs fund ...
Texas GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales, who previously said he would not support any stopgap bill, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he now plans ...
Military service leaders are telling senators that passing a temporary budget that keeps defense spending largely flat will ...
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