House Republican leaders want to shut down the government again
GOP Whip Steve Scalise is urging his caucus to oppose even a brief continuing resolution to avert a holiday crisis.
By Josh Israel - December 14, 2022GOP Whip Steve Scalise is urging his caucus to oppose even a brief continuing resolution to avert a holiday crisis.
By Josh Israel - December 14, 2022Blake Masters said in June, ‘You know, senators have a lot of procedural power to hold stuff up.’ He plans to use that power.
By Josh Israel - October 31, 2022Hundreds of people have died as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine.
By Emily Singer - March 07, 2022Conservative lawmakers are mad the stopgap funding bill won’t defund COVID-19 safety requirements.
By Josh Israel - December 02, 2021The federal government’s funding is set to expire on Friday.
By Josh Israel - December 01, 2021The Senate GOP filibustered the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act in hopes of forcing numerous amendment votes.
By Josh Israel - November 30, 2021The House Freedom Caucus is pushing another anti-vaccine message as the current government funding resolution is set to expire on Dec. 3
By Josh Israel - November 17, 2021Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would fund the government and raise the debt ceiling.
By Emily Singer - September 28, 2021The decision not to suspend the debt ceiling could cost the country 6 million jobs, a new report shows.
By Josh Israel - September 22, 2021The $1.4 trillion spending bill gives Trump additional funding to build his border wall in exchange for a number of Democratic priorities.
By Associated Press - December 12, 2019The last three government shutdowns — two under Trump, one under Obama — cost taxpayers billions in payments to employees not allowed to work during the shutdown.
By Lisa Needham - September 18, 2019The Government Accountability Office says Trump’s team broke the law when they diverted funds to clean up piles of waste that accrued during the shutdown.
By Oliver Willis - September 06, 2019The Supreme Court ruled blocked Trump from trying to rig elections for Republicans, at least for now.
By Emily Singer - June 28, 2019The House GOP thinks that low-wage workers who lost five weeks of pay during Trump’s unnecessary shutdown don’t deserve to be repaid.
By Lisa Needham - June 26, 2019House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy fought against a bipartisan measure that would hurt one of his donors.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2019The government spent a ton of money to keep an attraction at Trump’s hotel open while the rest of the government was shut down.
By Oliver Willis - March 21, 2019Trump’s shutdown delayed an inspection of the problem that may have caused a Boeing 737 Max plane crash in Ethiopia.
By Oliver Willis - March 13, 2019Trump has found another way to ignore the needs of federal workers.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 08, 2019The fallout from Trump’s disastrous 35-day shutdown is still hurting workers.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 01, 2019Republicans are refusing to authorize back pay for hundreds of thousands of federal contractors, many of them in the lowest paid jobs.
By Emily Singer - February 19, 2019Trump has yet to master the art of dealing with Democrats in power.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 15, 2019Sen. Chuck Grassley is using all the tools on heaven and earth to prevent Trump from forcing another disastrous government shutdown.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 14, 2019Trump’s shutdown stunt deprived people of paychecks for 5 weeks, and the effects were devastating.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 13, 2019While he was forcing federal workers to visit food pantries, Trump bought himself a $50,000 golf simulator and installed it in the White House.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 13, 2019The congressional funding compromise hammered out by Congress rejects Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion for a wall.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 12, 2019The Association of Flight Attendants union warns that a second Trump shutdown would threaten air travel safety.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 11, 2019Some federal workers still haven’t gotten back pay from the 35-day Trump shutdown — and Trump is threatening another one if he doesn’t get what he wants.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 08, 2019Unlike Trump, the White House National Drug Control Strategy doesn’t say that a border wall will help tackle issues like the opioid epidemic.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 01, 2019The GOP loves shutdowns, and they just proved it with their vote.
By Oliver Willis - January 30, 2019Republicans will bend over backward to give billionaires a tax break, but they won’t do a thing to help half a million workers get back pay.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 30, 2019