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What Trump's decision to wade into spending fight tells us about the next 4 years
Posted 9:08 AM 12/22/2024 by CHRIS MEGERIAN, STEPHEN GROVES, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown.
The president-elect successfully pushed House Republicans to jettison (More)
Yesterday
Here's a look at the $100 billion in disaster relief in the government spending bill
Posted 10:53 AM 12/21/2024 by REBECCA SANTANA and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid designed to address extensive damage caused by disasters after this week's scramble to find consensus on a government spending bill.
The money comes after back-to-back hurricanes — Helene and (More)
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Biden signs bill that averts a government shutdown and brings a close to days of Washington upheaval
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Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct
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Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation
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Farm Bill gets extension as Congress passes spending package and averts shutdown
12/19/2024
House approves funding bill and sends to Senate hours before government shutdown deadline
Posted 3:32 PM 12/20/2024 by LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan late Friday from Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops President-elect Donald Trump's demands for a debt limit increase into the new (More)
12/17/2024
Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands days before shutdown
Posted 4:27 PM 12/18/2024 by LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days before a deadline when federal funding runs (More)
12/16/2024
Police chief says motive for Wisconsin school shooting was a 'combination of factors'
Posted 6:01 PM 12/17/2024 by DEVI SHASTRI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The motive for a shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded others at a Wisconsin school appears to be a "combination of factors," a police chief said Tuesday as he appealed to the public to share what they might know about the 15-year-old girl who (More)
12/15/2024
Teacher and a teenage student killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin
Posted 2:58 PM 12/16/2024 by SCOTT BAUER Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A teenage student opened fire with a handgun Monday at a private Christian school in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another teenager during the final week before Christmas break. The shooter also died, police said.
The shooter also wounded others at Abundant (More)
