TikTok users could soon find that the popular social media service is either under new ownership or, although it wouldn’t happen immediately, outright banned in the U.S. On Saturday, the House passed legislation that would bar TikTok from operating in the U.S. if the popular platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year. […]
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Senate passes last second 1.2 trillion budget
The Senate passed a consolidated spending bill to fund the government on Saturday morning but failed to do so before the shutdown deadline. The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, a bill to appropriate $1.2 trillion of public funds, was published by the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee at 2:48 a.m. EST on Thursday. While […]
Text of $1.2 trillion spending bill released
Lawmakers early Thursday morning released the text of a $1.2 trillion government funding bill negotiated by the White House and leaders of both parties to avoid a partial government shutdown this weekend. The spending deal, announced Tuesday, includes funding for the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Labor, Health and Human Services and other parts […]
Congress’s Tik-Tok ban is making users angry
Will TikTok be banned? A key House committee voted unanimously Thursday to advance bipartisan legislation that would force China’s ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face a ban in the United States. Before the 50-0 vote in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, lawmakers received a classified briefing on national security concerns raised by TikTok’s […]
Shutdown stopgap bill planned for the 4th time
The U.S. Congress on Wednesday has three days to avert a partial government shutdown, as disagreements between the two parties and within the fractious House Republican majority delay lawmakers in their duty of funding federal agencies.The two chambers’ top Democrats and Republicans had emerged from what they described as an intense Tuesday meeting with President […]
Where’s Hunter? Testifying behind closed doors
House Republicans are finally getting the opportunity to ask Hunter Biden directly about the extent of his father’s involvement in the sprawling network of foreign business deals he set up while Joe Biden was serving as vice president and in the time immediately afterwards. Hunter Biden, the president’s son, will appear before investigators on Wednesday […]
Government shutdown looming again
Leaders in both parties are racing to secure a deal on government spending as the negotiation window quickly closes and the fears of a shutdown grow more pronounced. Congress returns to Washington next week facing a pair of looming funding deadlines — March 1 for a handful of agencies and March 8 for the rest […]
Zelenskyy takes dig at U.S. Congress over aid
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the West to swiftly and decisively aid Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia’s invasion while taking an apparent swipe at Congress for its continued stalemate over foreign assistance. “First, we all must do not something, but everything possible to defeat the aggressor,” Zelenskyy said at the Munich Security Conference […]
Pivotal Santos Congress seat decided this week
A critical race for Democrats in ex-Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) House district is coming down to the wire with just one day to go before voters head to the polls. Democrats have eyed the seat, which Republicans claimed in an upset win in 2022, for months since Santos was expelled from the House in December. […]
Lawmakers in tussle about more aid for Ukraine
The House appears to be moving further and further away from approving a deal that would include new assistance to Ukraine — even as the Senate inches closer to an agreement. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is demanding that any new aid for Kyiv be accompanied by tougher policies on border migration; House Democrats have […]
Stopgap spending bill passed, funds til March 8th
The House and the Senate have both approved a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through early March. The bill now heads to President Biden’s desk for a signature. With some federal agencies, including those that oversee agriculture, transportation and veterans’ services, set to run out of funding Friday night at midnight and a […]
House Dems reject Johnson’s border demands
House Democrats wasted no time this week rejecting Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) demands for strict new border security measures in return for Ukraine aid, posing the latest obstacle in Congress’s efforts to move another round of military assistance for the embattled U.S. ally. Johnson said Wednesday House Republicans would oppose any new aid for Kyiv […]