Some lawmakers are getting anxious to fund key programs and pay federal workers as the shutdown drags on, but even so, most Senate Republicans argue that the best way to ensure paydays and benefits is to reopen the government. While Senate Republicans and Democrats are entrenched in a stalemate that has seen the shutdown drag into its 29th day, a ...
House Republicans are in preliminary discussions on a healthcare package, as Obamacare continues to be the central sticking point in the ongoing government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said on Thursday that lawmakers have begun discussions in ‘informal working groups’ on what healthcare reform, aimed at lowering ballooning medical costs, would look like. But the fight over Obamacare, also known ...
The Senate once again rejected President Donald Trump’s tariffs, this time on a global scale. Lawmakers in the upper chamber went three for three with resolutions meant to terminate Trump’s use of emergency powers to enact steep tariffs on foreign countries. While the previous two were geared toward specific tariffs on Brazil and Canada, the latest would end tariffs on ...
Israel said Thursday that the Red Cross provided information indicating ‘two coffins of deceased hostages have been transferred into their custody and are on their way to IDF troops in the Gaza Strip.’ In its announcement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) repeated its demand that Hamas hand over the remains of all the deceased hostages. Israel said earlier Thursday that ...
Republican senators on Wednesday urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to tighten safety standards and reconsider partnerships tied to abortion pills, accusing the agency of expanding access without adequate oversight. On the call, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., expressed frustration that the agency hadn’t already overhauled safety parameters around abortion pills — and that it ...
On the heels of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Beijing has agreed to restart its purchases of U.S. soybeans, a $30 billion cornerstone of American agriculture that was once wielded as a weapon in the battle for global trade leverage. Once a quiet export success story, America’s humble soybean became a political flashpoint after Beijing halted ...
Another aviation-related union is demanding lawmakers reopen the government as Vice President JD Vance prepares to hold a roundtable with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and airline industry leaders Thursday as shutdown woes mount, Fox News Digital learned. The roundtable will be held at the White House Thursday afternoon, and will include Airlines for America CEO and former New Hampshire Governor ...
A virtual confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s surgeon general pick Dr. Casey Means has been postponed because she went into labor. Means, 38, was appearing remotely because she was nine months pregnant with her first child. Her opening remarks for the hearing expected on Thursday had been prewritten. ‘Our nation is angry, exhausted, and hurting from preventable disease. Rates ...
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst introduced legislation Thursday that would clear the way for Trump administration officials to sell underutilized federal buildings, Fox News Digital learned. ‘Despite President Trump calling federal employees back to work, vacant government buildings could easily be mistaken as future locations for Spirit Halloween stores,’ Ernst said in a statement to Fox News Digital. ‘For too long, ...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday met face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea – just hours after Trump hinted online at potential shifts in U.S. defense and trade policy. The meeting marked the final stop of Trump’s Asia trip, which also included stops in Malaysia and Japan, and focused on cooling the economic standoff between Washington ...