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Top House committee chairman reveals he won’t seek re-election in 2026

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, will not seek re-election in 2026. The senior Republican lawmaker will have finished serving a decade in Congress when he leaves at the end of next year. ‘I have a firm conviction, much like our founders did, that public service is a lifetime commitment, but public office is

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Senate ends 41-day government shutdown stalemate, sends bipartisan deal to House

The shutdown stalemate that has dragged on in the Senate officially ended late Monday night, and it places Congress on a path to reopen the government later this week. Senators advanced a bipartisan funding package to end the government shutdown after a group of Senate Democrats broke from their colleagues and joined Republicans in their

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Trump, states back in court over SNAP as benefits remain in legal limbo

Lawyers for roughly two dozen states will head to court Monday to block the Trump administration’s attempt to penalize them for making full payments to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients.  The filing is the latest in a chaotic, fast-moving legal saga centered on the status of the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, which supports 42

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Senate reaches temporary truce to end record shutdown, but January battle looms

Senators believe that after reaching a deal to end the longest shutdown on record, they won’t be in the same position early next year. The bipartisan package that advanced from the Senate late Monday night would, if passed by the House this week, reopen the government until Jan. 30. Lawmakers believe that extension would give

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Mike Johnson speaks out after Senate breakthrough on government shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is glad the Senate finally managed to break through its weeks-long standoff on the government shutdown, he told Fox News Digital on Monday morning. ‘It’s a great development. It’s long overdue. It vindicates our position in this all along,’ the House leader said. He added that he would have ‘a lot

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Reagan-appointed federal judge resigns to speak out against Trump’s ‘assault on the rule of law’

A federal judge appointed by former President Ronald Reagan announced in an op-ed published Sunday that he resigned from his position, relinquishing his lifetime appointment to speak out against President Donald Trump, whom he views as eroding judicial independence and using the law to reward allies and punish opponents. Mark Wolf, who was appointed by

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In a SNAP, Trump blamed for blocking food assistance to low-income families

Let’s put politics aside, as if that were possible, and look at how the craziness of the last few days is affecting people. A week ago, President Donald Trump announced that the 42 million Americans on the SNAP nutrition program would not be getting their benefits — this against the backdrop of a government shutdown

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Trump welcomes Syrian president to Washington in high-profile visit as shutdown deal takes shape

With a deal to end the record government shutdown taking shape, President Donald Trump is turning to foreign policy at the start of the week. On Monday, Trump will host Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House, the first official visit by a Syrian leader to Washington. Officials describe the meeting as a landmark

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Senate hopes to blow through procedural hurdles in bid to reopen government

The ball is rolling to reopen the government, but there is still much left to do in the Senate before the record-shattering shutdown comes to an end. Sunday night’s successful vote, which saw eight Senate Democrats splinter from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and their colleagues, was a massive step forward in the shutdown

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FDA moves to lift ‘black box’ warnings from hormone therapies for menopause symptoms

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is initiating the removal of ‘black box’ warning labels from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products used to ease menopause symptoms, a move Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said is backed by decades of research on the therapy’s benefits and clinical trials that do not support earlier fears

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