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1 month ago | 
cnbc.com | Scott Wong |Frank Thorp V |Julie Tsirkin |Kate Santaliz
enate Republicans teamed up with a small band of Democrats on Friday to advance a stopgap funding bill, clearing the path for a final vote to avert a government shutdown. The bill cleared a key procedural hurdle on a 62-38 vote, with 10 Democrats joining all but one Republican in voting in favor. Sixty votes were needed to overcome a filibuster.
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1 month ago | 
wnd.com | Scott Wong |Kyle Stewart |Sahil Kapur
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Saturday unveiled a short-term funding bill that would avert a shutdown at the end of next week and keep the government running through the end of September. Johnson has said he will bring the funding bill to the floor for a vote early next week, likely Tuesday, before money runs out late Friday night.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
nbcwashington.com | Scott Wong |Sahil Kapur |Kyle Stewart |Syedah Asghar
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
autos.yahoo.com | Scott Wong
Scott WongDecember 4, 2024 at 7:10 PM·3 min readRep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., at a House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2022. WASHINGTON — Longtime Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Wednesday he was dropping his bid to remain the top Democrat on the powerful Judiciary Committee for the next two years and endorsed Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who announced just two days ago that he would challenge Nadler for the coveted job.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Scott Wong
WASHINGTON — Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick for defense secretary, brushed aside suggestions Wednesday that he drop out and said he had spoken to Trump, who urged him to “keep going, keep fighting.”“I spoke to the president-elect this morning. He said, ‘Keep going, keep fighting. I’m behind you all the way.’” Hegseth told CBS News in the Capitol Wednesday. “Why would I back down? I’ve always been a fighter. I’m here for the fighters.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
today.com | Sahil Kapur |Scott Wong
Nov. 6, 2024, 5:49 AM UTCRepublicans will win control of the Senate for the next two years, NBC News projects, as Democrats have grown nervous about Kamala Harris’ prospects of winning the presidency. Senate Republicans ousted Democrats in red states to secure the majority, flipping seats in West Virginia and Ohio, two states that have swung heavily to the GOP.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Scott Wong
Scott Wong, opinion contributorOctober 24, 2024 at 10:30 AM·4 min readThis is one in a series of op-eds celebrating The Hill’s 30th anniversary. I knew things would get interesting when I accepted a job with The Hill covering House Republicans in the summer of 2014. But I couldn’t anticipate just how wild the next seven years would be. A Tea Party wave had swept a number of fiscally conservative rebels into office during the previous two election cycles.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
nbcchicago.com | Frank Thorp V |Scott Wong |Jesse Rodriguez
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president this year. But in a new book, the powerful Kentucky Republican is quoted after the 2020 election disparaging Trump as a “despicable human being,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered."Republicans were counting down the days until he left office, McConnell said at the time. He also called the “narcissistic” Trump unfit for office after he incited the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
aol.com | Scott Wong |Syedah Asghar |Frank Thorp V
September 26, 2024 at 7:00 AMThe U.S. Capitol. WASHINGTON — Lawmakers averted a government shutdown 40 days before the election, but they’ll face another funding crunch right before the holidays and a new Congress and president take office. Bipartisan negotiators have been trying to make progress on the 12 bills needed to fund federal agencies for the 2025 fiscal year.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Allie Raffa |Scott Wong |Ali Vitali |Summer Concepcion
After wrapping up her multiday battleground state tour, Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a major fundraiser in San Francisco on Sunday to court West Coast donors, some of whom had pulled their support for President Joe Biden after his poor debate performance in June.
