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Eighth Senate vote fails on 49-45 tally as Congress remains deadlocked on legislation amid now two-week shutdownUS politics live – latest updatesCongress remained deadlocked on legislation to reopen the federal government, as the US Senate on Tuesday a…
AFL-CIO fights issue in court as union leader warns of ‘devastating effects’ for AmericansThe White House announced layoffs of federal workers on Friday, making good on a threat it had made in response to the US government shutdown, which now appears s…
Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego hold press conference at speaker’s office over his refusal to swear in new DemocratArizona’s Democratic senators pressed Mike Johnson on Wednesday to swear in their state’s newest representative, Adelita Grijalva, but the R…
Mike Johnson adds Trump does not want permanent job cuts as talks between parties stalled over weekendThe Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, accused Democrats of being “not serious” in negotiations to end the federal government shutdown, now on it…
US president reverses course days after scrapping meeting to discuss crisis with Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck SchumerDonald Trump has reversed course and is purportedly planning to host a bipartisan gathering of the top four US congressional leaders at th…
Trump said ‘I want him out’ about Erik Siebert, who was investigating New York attorney general Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey. This blog is now closed.Today, lawmakers in the House will vote on legislation, known as a “continuing re…
House speaker made baffling claim that president worked with FBI to take down Epstein before later backing awayIn a matter of days, US House speaker Mike Johnson claimed that Donald Trump was an FBI informant who was working to try and take down late s…
It’s the first use of tool, which bypasses Congress’s power over the budget, since 1977Donald Trump has told the House speaker, Mike Johnson, that he won’t be spending $4.9bn in congressionally approved foreign aid, in effect cutting the budget without…
Palestinian foreign ministry condemns Republican visit for ‘undermining efforts to stop the war and cycle of violence’Mike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing mea…
Another Republican says it should be on table, illustrating challenge posed by scandal for Maga base and the partyThe US House speaker, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday he would have “great pause” about granting a pardon or commutation to Ghislaine Maxwell…