Congress, shutdown and Venezuela
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Congress unveils more than $174 billion spending bill to avoid government shutdown by Jan. 30 deadline, with House vote expected this week on the bipartisan legislation.
Lawmakers are moving to cut funding but rejecting severe reductions sought by the White House to energy and environment programs.
Lawmakers have little time to pass nine appropriations bills or another funding extension before the next shutdown deadline hits.
Va., is again trying to rein in President Donald Trump's military authority and give Congress more of a say, following a surprise weekend operation.
Lawmakers may have dismissed the president’s talk of US control of the Danish territory before. After Venezuela, that’s changing.
The classified session for congressional leaders and the top members of the intelligence, defense and foreign policy panels came two days after the military operation.
Donald Trump has revealed he kept his Venezuela strike secret from the U.S. Congress because he was worried leaky lawmakers would wreck the raid. The president insisted that it was the reason he didn’t ask for permission for the attack at a press conference in Mar-a-Lago on Saturday.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning Monday — a year before her term ends — deeply disillusioned with President Donald Trump.
Speaker Mike Johnson lobbied Trump directly to hold off on his decision, the Washington Post reported. On the eve of Trump’s announcement, 22 Senate Republicans urged him in a letter not to go ahead with it, citing health issues like addiction linked to the drug’s use and economic consequences.