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Senate will craft new spending resolution as Republicans express optimism on ending the shutdown
S.D., told reporters on Monday they were “getting close” to a deal, which would likely result in a new spending resolution.
Senate Republicans nixed an attempt by Democrats to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits on Monday after those funds dried up over the weekend amid the government shutdown.
Senate Republicans are resisting his demand to end the long-standing filibuster rule in order to end the government shutdown.
In a pair of late-night posts, Trump told Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote threshold and pass a government funding bill without Democrats.
The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative filibuster, just hours after President Donald Trump made a fresh demand for the Senate to do so to end the government shutdown.
The Senate failed for a 13th time to advance a GOP funding bill that would end the government shutdown, now on Day 28. Follow live updates here.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) was livid after the Trump administration held a Senate Republican-exclusive national security briefing on Venezuela, accusing the president of jeopardizing national security. President Donald Trump‘s relationship with congressional Democrats has been worse than during his first term,
The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s global tariffs introduced last spring, with four Senate Republicans joining Democrats to object to the president’s trade policy.
President Trump's call to terminate the filibuster could alter the ways the Senate and congressional dealmaking operate.