The House is scheduled to vote on a short-term budget deal Thursday afternoon, but the latest count shows that House GOP leaders don't have enough votes. Now, President Trump has thrown a wrench into Speaker Ryan's bargaining power, tweeting that the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) shouldn't be included in a short-term plan.
Reason Magazine Editor-at-Large Matt Welch explains why a government shutdown "may happen by accident." Since it's been almost five years since the last shutdown, Welch says politicians may have forgotten how much Americans hate it when the government comes to a halt.
If Republican leaders can't get enough votes for the short-term budget deal, then Congress will only have 24 hours to put another deal together. The last time the government shut down was October 2013.
Social media users take note: You won't be able to snap that fall foliage selfie at a popular Vermont spot. The town has temporarily closed the road to nonresidents due to overcrowding and “poorly behaved tourists.”
A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — sold at auction for $262,500, according to a Boston-based auction house.
President Joe Biden grabbed a bullhorn on the picket line Tuesday and urged striking auto workers to “stick with it” in an unparalleled show of support for organized labor by a modern president.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the drawing of a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters to proceed. The new districts also could help Democrats trying to flip control of the House of Representatives.
With a government shutdown five days away, Congress is moving into crisis mode as Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces an insurgency from hard-right Republicans eager to slash spending even if it means curtailing federal services for millions of Americans.
