Month: December 2024

By Richard Cowan, Bo Erickson, Andy Sullivan and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday that would avert a midnight government shutdown, defying President-elect Donald Trump’s demand to also greenlight trillions of dollars in new debt. Next, the Democratic-controlled Senate would need to pass the bill to ensure

Richard Allen was convicted last month for the “Delphi murders” of Liberty German, who was 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, in 2017.

Donald Trump’s last-minute demands for a congressional funding package were rejected by Republicans, foreshadowing the challenges he could face next year.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has privately floated embracing the wholesale elimination of the debt limit next year rather than simply raising it, Axios has learned. Why it matters: President-elect Trump will almost certainly need Democratic votes when the debt limit’s “X-date” is reached — which experts say could be as soon as mid-June. Republicans have a significant bloc of debt and deficit hawks who will likely vote against…

The head of Chicago Public Schools is now suing members of the Chicago Board of Education in an attempt to prevent them from ousting him.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) relied on an unclear, unrealistic and unenforceable promise on the debt ceiling to convince President-elect Trump and House conservatives to keep the government open. It worked. Why it matters: Trump killed Johnson’s Plan A because it didn’t include anything on the debt ceiling. Democrats and 38 Republicans killed Johnson’s Plan B because it did. Don’t ask about Plan C: It lived a short, unhappy life, mostly…