Senators unanimously advance shutdown-averting bill The Senate unanimously agreed to take up the House-passed funding bill on Saturday night, effectively ending the chance of a government shutdown this weekend and punting big funding fights into November. The stopgap funding bill is expected to pass the chamber by a comfortable margin and head to President Joe…
75,000 Healthcare Workers Set to Go on Strike – Biggest Healthcare Strike In U.S. History More than 75,000 healthcare workers may go on strike if negotiators fail to reach an agreement with their contract, which expires on Saturday night at midnight. The strike would affect Kaiser Permanente in five states and Washington D.C. The healthcare…
Ukraine aid backers still see path for new aid The stopgap spending bill that will be sent to President Joe Biden’s desk doesn’t contain new money for Ukraine or even transfer authority for aid. Yet backers of Kyiv’s defense against Moscow say it may come soon. Some backers of Ukraine believe a bill allowing at…
Four votes, three possible senators: A wild California campaign year lies ahead Californians have been represented by Sen. Dianne Feinstein for more than three decades. A suddenly scrambled Senate race could give them three senators in the space of a year. Feinstein’s death has triggered a bewildering cascade of electoral consequences, infusing uncertainty into an…
White House welcomes shutdown resolution — sees another crack at Ukraine aid soon Like much of Washington, the Biden White House was caught off guard Saturday morning when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy abruptly reversed course and announced that he would bring a clean bill to fund the government for the next 45 days. But aides…
Watch: Tucker Carlson Says 2024 Won’t Be Trump vs. Biden, Warns It’s About to Get Serious Tucker Carlson predicted Thursday that the general election will not be between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, and he’s probably right. Biden is “senile,” Carlson said during a speech at an Intercollegiate Studies Institute event in Wilmington,…
UPDATE: Democrat Squad Member Jamaal Bowman Hurled Emergency Exit Signs on Floor Before Pulling Nearby Fire Alarm – a Dangerous Criminal Act – WHERE IS THE DOJ? According to an exclusive report by Breitbart News, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) allegedly tore down two signs warning that a door on the second floor of the Cannon…
Why Neutralizing the Iranian Regime’s Suppression of the Next Liberal Uprising Matters Image: Mostafameragi Wikimedia Commons This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire By Julian Spencer-Churchill Real Clear Wire A year has passed since the triggering of the nationwide women-led protests in Iran on September 16, 2022, by the murder of Mehsa Amini…
House GOP reverses course, pushes clean funding patch House Republicans are now pushing ahead on a clean 45-day stopgap spending bill that they expect to vote on later Saturday, a major turnabout after weeks of vowing not to pursue such an approach. The House GOP had considered taking three separate votes on Saturday as the…
Pelosi’s message to Dems: Don’t save McCarthy’s speakership As the House braces for a possible vote to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, there’s been a lot of speculation about whether House Democrats would step in to help save his gavel. Not if his predecessor Nancy Pelosi has anything to say about it. The former speaker has…