GOP aborts temporary government funding measure at Trump's urging

Hinson says she stands with Trump in fight over year-end funding bill - Radio Iowa

Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson of Marion is praising President-elect Trump’s pressure campaign that has derailed a bipartisan deal to keep the federal government operating. “I think President Trump’s right,” Hinson said. “President Trump overwhelmingly won this election and the American people did vote for disruption and change and I stand with him in this fight.” […]

Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk’s Meddling

Republicans removed funding for child cancer research from a new version of a bill to fund the government after Elon Musk torpedoed the previous deal.

Shutdown odds rapidly rise as House seeks plan B

The odds of a shutdown were rapidly growing on Thursday after President-elect Trump upended the talks by urging GOP lawmakers to shutter the government unless Democrats agree to a clean stopgap spending bill that raises or abolishes the debt limit. “If we don’t get it, then we’re going to have a shutdown, but it’ll be a Biden shutdown, because shutdowns only inure to the person who’s president,” Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl. Trump’s blunt dema…

Stopgap funding bill scrapped after Trump opposes it

By Joseph Lord and Arjun Singh Contributing Writers  WASHINGTON — Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Lousiana, said on Wednesday night the massive stopgap funding bill put forward by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, was scrapped after President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance came out in opposition to the bill.  “There is no new agreement right now,” Scalise told reporters, and lawmakers are “looking at a number of opt…

Republicans push back on spending bill as government shutdown looms

Several Republican lawmakers are voicing their opposition to a last minute spending bill, that was built to avoid a partial government shutdown before the holidays.