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Schumer defends support for GOP funding bill ahead of Senate votes to avoid shutdown

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday morning to defend his decision to support a Republican short-term funding bill that will effectively help avoid a government shutdown at the end of the day.

CBS News on MSN · 22m

Senate takes first vote on GOP measure to avert shutdown as Democrats fume

The Senate is expected to take a procedural vote Friday afternoon on a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

U.S. News & World Report · 10h

US Senate Poised to Pass Republican Stopgap Spending Bill, Avert Shutdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce.

Alan Simpson, 3-term senator known for barbed wit, dies

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Alan Simpson, an outspoken Wyoming Republican who carved a moderate path in the US Senate, dies

Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a moderate blend of conservatism, has died. He was 93.

Reuters on MSN · 5h

Former US Senator Alan Simpson, affable old-school Republican, dies aged 93

Alan Simpson, an old school moderate Republican senator who helped craft major U.S. immigration reform in 1986 and made friends across the aisle, died on Friday in Cody, Wyoming, his family said in a statement.

The Washington Post on MSN · 7h

Alan Simpson, three-term senator known for barbed wit, dies at 93

Pushing the 1986 immigration reform bill through Congress — his major legislative accomplishment — was like “giving dry birth to a porcupine,” he quipped.

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GOP lawmaker says it’s time for ‘new leadership’ in the Senate as Schumer faces backlash

N.Y., joins ‘The Story’ to discuss Democratic leadership in the Senate amid mounting criticism towards Senate Minority Leader ...

House Dem Leader Jeffries on Senate Democrats Considering Vote For GOP Budget Plan: "Next Question"

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries sidestepped SEVERAL questions about the apparent resignation of Senate Democratic ...

Senate GOP tanks White House pick for CDC chief

The White House’s bid to install a vaccine-skeptic ally of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. atop the CDC fell apart this ...

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Senate Democrats refuse to go along with GOP spending plan, as shutdown deadline nears

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led spending bill that ...

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Senate Democrats get jammed by Republicans in lose-lose shutdown dilemma

Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place as they must choose between shutting down the government or folding to ...

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Trump and Senate Republicans Fail to Solve US Debt Ceiling Problem

President Donald Trump and key Senate Republicans are still grasping for a solution to the US government closing in on ...

Live updates: Senate works to avert partial government shutdown ahead of midnight deadline

The Senate is working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare Friday. Senate Democratic leader Chuck ...

The Hill on MSN10h

Whole Hog Politics: Your way-too-early Senate race ratings

Tariffs tax approval; Dems jockey for 2028 position; Elon-gated; Biden hemmed in Harris; a wild commute As Senate Democrats agonize over whether to help Republicans avoid a government ...

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