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Senate could take test vote on new spending bill as early as Sunday afternoon

The Senate could take a test vote as early as tomorrow afternoon on a revamped Republican bill to end the government shutdown and fund parts of the government for the rest of the fiscal year.  We are still waiting on bill text on a measure which would fund the government through late January and provide

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Senate in limbo as Thune eyes long haul until shutdown ends

The Senate is in for a rare weekend session as the chamber remains in limbo while lawmakers try to find a way out of the government shutdown. Behind the scenes, appropriators are cooking up a trio of spending bills to attach to the House-passed continuing resolution (CR), along with an extension to the bill that

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Republicans unveil key piece of shutdown puzzle in bid to reopen government

Senate Republicans unveiled a crucial piece of the puzzle in their bid to reopen the government and plan to plow ahead with a vote on Sunday.  While both sides still appear at an impasse on extending expiring Obamacare subsidies, appropriators moved ahead with a package of spending bills that Republicans hope will jumpstart the government

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State Dept says G20 boycott tied to South Africa’s ‘government-sponsored discrimination’ against Afrikaners

The Trump administration on Friday intensified its dispute with South Africa, saying no U.S. government official will attend the G20 Summit in Johannesburg in protest of what it describes as state-backed discrimination against White Afrikaners. ‘The lives and property of Afrikaners have been endangered by politicians who incite race-based violence against them, threaten to confiscate

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Supreme Court blocks lower court order forcing Trump administration to fully fund SNAP program

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary block on Friday on a lower court’s order requiring the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program amid the government shutdown.  The decision came shortly after a federal appeals court on Friday denied a Trump administration request to temporarily block the lower court

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Appeals court denies Trump administration request to block SNAP funding order during government shutdown

A federal appeals court on Friday denied a Trump administration request to temporarily block a lower court ruling requiring the government to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program amid the government shutdown.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruling comes as the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday said

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Brennan, Strzok, Page subpoenaed as part of federal Russiagate probe: Sources

: A federal grand jury has subpoenaed former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, among others as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, Fox News Digital has learned. Sources told Fox News Digital Brennan; Strzok, the FBI’s former deputy assistant director of

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Dems block GOP bill ensuring federal worker, military paychecks continue during shutdown

Senate Democrats again blocked a plan by Republicans to ensure that federal workers and the military would receive a paycheck as the shutdown back and forth revs into high gear. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., again tried to advance a modified version of his ‘Shutdown Fairness Act’ bill that would see federal workers and the military

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Senate in limbo as Thune eyes long-haul until shutdown ends

The Senate is in for a rare weekend session as the chamber remains in limbo while lawmakers try to find a way out of the government shutdown. Behind the scenes, appropriators are cooking up a trio of spending bills to attach to the House-passed continuing resolution (CR), along with an extension to the bill that

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Patriot or ‘Pathetic RINO’? Maverick Republican Thomas Massie trades ‘America First’ label for ‘America only’

Rep. Thomas Massie — a Republican fiscal hawk facing a President Donald Trump-backed primary challenger in Kentucky — has previously described himself as ‘America First,’ but now he says he thinks that he’s ‘America only.’  ‘I am tired of sending money overseas,’ he told Fox News Digital during an interview on Thursday.  ‘I am tired

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