Dozens of Democrat-run states have sued the Trump administration for refusing to utilize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s (SNAP) contingency funds to issue food benefits during the government shutdown.
Read More Coalition of Democrat-run states sue Trump admin over lapse in SNAP funding
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has officially accepted GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson’s invitation to hold a public debate — as the government shutdown enters its third week.
Read More House Minority Leader Jeffries agrees to public debate with Speaker Johnson on govt shutdown
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested that the government shutdown may become the longest in U.S. history — unless Senate Democrats finally agree to pass a “clean, no-strings-attached” Republican spending bill to reopen the government.
Read More Speaker Johnson: Congress is ‘barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history’
President Donald Trump revealed that his team has identified funds that will be utilized to pay military service members despite the ongoing government shutdown.
Read More Trump shifts funds to pay military service members despite government shutdown
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson has maintained that it is up to Democrats in Congress to avoid a federal shutdown on October 1st — while specifically calling out Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Read More Speaker Mike Johnson: It’ll be up to Congressional Democrats to stave off federal shutdown
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have sent a letter to GOP leaders, proposing an urgent meeting to negotiate a government funding agreement to prevent a shutdown by the end of September.
Read More Schumer and Jeffries write a letter to GOP leadership, vow to vote against the imminent CR without bipartisan input