The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 335-91 to adopt a 45-day stopgap measure hours before funding for federal agencies was set to expire.
Top US House Republican Kevin McCarthy could face an untimely end to his role as speaker after a hardline critic within his own party called for a vote to oust him, after passing a stopgap funding bill that drew more support from Democrats.
Millions of the country’s most vulnerable women and children could lose their nutrition benefits as early as next week, according to the Biden administration. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said this week that the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program—which serves pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding mothers and their children under the age of six—would run out of federal funding if the government shuts down this weekend.“The vast majority of WIC participants would see an immediate
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell distanced himself from House Republicans’ government shutdown demands, underscoring the divide within the party and weakening Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s negotiating leverage as Washington barrels toward an October 1 federal funding lapse. Emerging from a closed-door meeting Wednesday of Senate Republicans, McConnell defended a bipartisan Senate plan to temporarily keep open
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