Senators Negotiate over Shutdown as Furor Grows over Flight Cuts, SNAP. Live Updates

Sen. Kennedy Makes Thinly Veiled Threat Against Schumer

So much for toning down the violent rhetoric. Sen. John Kennedy made an appearance on Fox's The Story with Martha MacCallum this Friday, and was asked about the upcoming vote on Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's proposal to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for a year in return for ending the shutdown, and Kennedy made this thinly veiled threat against Schumer in response while just straight up lying about what extending those subsidies wou…

Coons: It's 'Very Hard' to Say 'We Need to Keep Fighting', GOP Could End Shutdown by Voting for Our Plan

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said that “It is hard to go into the Capitol and look Capitol Police in the eye, knowing they’re not being paid. It is hard to go into my The post Coons: It’s ‘Very Hard’ to Say ‘We Need to Keep Fighting’, GOP Could End Shutdown by Voting for Our Plan appeared first on Breitbart.

Senators negotiate over shutdown as furor grows over flight cuts, SNAP. Live updates

"I am tired of political games," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota.

'Stupid should hurt more': John Kennedy responds to Schumer's demands to solve shutdown * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

'God, please give me patience, because if, if you give me strength, I’m going to need bail money'

Get Back Here! John Thune Announces Working Weekend for Senate Democrats and Republicans

John Thune keeps Senate in session over the weekend to end the Schumer Shutdown.

Republican Senator Says ‘I’m Going To Need Bail Money’ if Chuck Schumer Keeps Blocking Bill to End Shutdown

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) fumed that he is “going to need bail money” if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer keeps blocking Republican bills that would end the shutdown as he tore up the Democratic counteroffer as the “dumbest” idea yet. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) slammed Democrats’ offer to end the shutdown on Friday as a “non-starter” that “doesn’t even get close” after a proposal to extend Obamacare tax credits in exchange fo…