House stopgap fails, Senate set for weekend votes
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WASHINGTON is heading into the weekend without a firm plan to avert a shutdown of the federal government, which is set to begin Sunday.
In a defeat for House leadership, 21 Republicans joined Democrats in sinking a GOP-led stopgap measure in a 198-232 vote. Between the lines: - The House continuing resolution (CR) was seen as dead on arrival in the Senate, which is working out its own bill on a more bipartisan basis.
- Still, the vote marked a setback for House GOP leaders, who pushed to advance the bill to secure more leverage in negotiations with Senate Democrats and the White House, The Hill’s Mychael Schnell noted.
What now? On the House side, the answer to that isn’t clear. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said after the Friday vote that he’d “keep going.” Republican Study Committee Chair Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) said McCarthy could put a bipartisan CR on the floor or wait for the Senate to pass its CR “and then negotiate from there.” McCarthy previously rejected those options.
The Senate is expected to hold several remaining votes on its CR over the weekend, possibly into Sunday, when the shutdown would be in effect barring a solution Saturday. Learn more about the Senate negotiations here.
Looking back: The last government shutdown, from December 2018 to January 2019, lasted 35 days and was the longest in U.S. history. That was only a partial shutdown, though, as Congress had already passed some full-year funding bills. The current Congress hasn’t passed any.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) died Thursday evening at the age of 90. We highlight more on her decadeslong political career below.
The United Auto Workers strike expanded to a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors plant in Lansing, Mich., this afternoon, with an additional 7,000 union members called to join the picket lines. Scott Hall, one of 19 defendants in the Georgia election interference case with former President Trump, pleaded guilty to the charges against him on Friday. He’s the first defendant to enter a guilty plea.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) broke numerous barriers as a woman in politics, first in her home state of California and then in the Senate.
Here’s a look at her firsts: - Feinstein became the first female president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978.
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She was also the first woman to serve as the city’s mayor beginning that year.
- Feinstein in 1992 became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from California. She’d go on to become the longest-serving female senator ever.
- She was the first female chair of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee. And she was the first woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Each week we’ll highlight an interesting poll on the campaign trail or data set out of Washington. |
Majority want compromise on government funding |
Most Americans — 64 percent — want members of Congress who share their spending priorities to compromise on their principles to avoid a shutdown, according to a Monmouth University poll this week. KEY FINDINGS: - Only 31 percent said like-minded members of Congress should stick to their principles even if it means a shutdown.
- Republicans were more than twice as likely to say like-minded members of Congress should stick to their principles.
- Forty-six percent of Republicans held that view, compared to 21 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of independents.
The survey of 814 adults was conducted Sept. 19-24, as lawmakers scrambled to come up with a solution to avert a shutdown, and has an overall margin of error of 4.3 percentage points (full data here). THE TRUMP FACTOR: |
Former President Trump‘s message to Republicans on Sunday was to “get everything” in government funding negotiations or “shut it down!” He also argued that President Biden would be blamed in the event of a shutdown, though polling shows both parties would face blame.
For his part, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned that shutdowns are a “loser for Republicans, politically.”
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In the Monmouth poll, 43 percent said Republicans in Congress would be blamed for a shutdown, while 27 percent said Biden and 21 percent said Democrats in Congress.
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A YouGov poll showed roughly equal shares would blame either everyone equally (32 percent) or Republicans in Congress (29 percent). Democrats in Congress got 14 percent and Biden got 13 percent.
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In a Morning Consult poll, 46 percent said fighting between Democrats and Republicans was to blame for the brinksmanship; 20 percent said Republican infighting was to blame. Democratic infighting got 11 percent, and 22 percent said they didn’t know.
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Medicare price negotiation deadline approaches for drugmakers
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Major drug companies producing the 10 drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations have until Sunday to sign an agreement to participate in the program or risk losing the ability to sell through Medicare along with heavy taxes.
The Hill’s Joseph Choi breaks down pending lawsuits against the program and where things stand. |
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Biden admin makes next move on student loan forgiveness
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The Department of Education released an “initial set of policy considerations” for the administration’s new student loan forgiveness plan, to be discussed at the first Student Loan Relief Committee meeting Oct. 10-11. |
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Hochul declares state of emergency for parts of NY
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) declared a state of emergency covering
New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley this morning due to extreme rainfall and flooding risks. |
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1 day until the government funding deadline. |
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“To avert climate catastrophe, the US needs to do more than Meatless Mondays” — Ben Williamson, the United States director of Compassion in World Farming. (Read here) “Compromise is needed on EPA’s new particulate matter rules” — Former Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.). (Read here) |
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Friday-Sunday: The California Republican Party holds its fall convention, with speeches from former President Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.
Saturday: The Federal Election Commission‘s quarterly fundraising deadline.
Sunday: Trump holds a rally in Ottumwa, Iowa, at 3:30 p.m. ET. |
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