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House passes a 45-day funding plan, sends it to Senate as clock ticks
With hours to go before the midnight deadline to fund the government, the Senate was also in for a rare weekend session and prepared to act next.
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Leadership
McCarthy’s last-ditch bid to keep government open fails; shutdown near
The bill’s failure a day before Saturday’s deadline to fund the government leaves few options left to prevent a shutdown.
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Opinions
The demographic and fiscal time bombs ticking inside the Pentagon
The lack of 18-year-olds to serve and our country’s towering fiscal deficits will endanger our national security in the near term.
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Milley says he’ll ensure family safety after Trump’s execution remark
Gen. Mark Milley said he'll take steps to protect himself and his family after comments by former President Donald Trump.
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How to watch the second Republican presidential debate
The two-hour debate will start at 9 p.m. ET.
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Rapidly approaching government shutdown has Congress in crisis mode
The Senate is preparing its own bipartisan plan for a stopgap measure to buy some time and keep offices funded past Saturday’s deadline.
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Biden taps Melissa Dalton for Air Force’s No. 2 civilian post
She would replace Gina Ortiz Jones, who left the leadership post in March.
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Three top military leaders confirmed after Senate deal
The Senate is expected to fill three vacancies on the Joint Chiefs of Staff — including the chairman post — after a surprise breakthrough Wednesday.
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Biden creates New Deal-style American Climate Corps for job training
The program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels.
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Former Pentagon manpower and diversity chief running for Congress
Gil Cisneros, a Navy veteran and former California congressman, is ready to run again after serving as DoD manpower chief.
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McCarthy running out of options to stop shutdown as conservatives balk
He plans to hold a vote on a Department of Defense spending bill on Wednesday, then the stopgap funding measure the next day.
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AUKUS agreement requires submarine production boost, Franchetti says
She laid out the submarine production rate needed for AUKUS at her Senate hearing, though her confirmation is uncertain.
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Senators clash with US prisons chief over problem-plagued agency
Senators complained that Colette Peters appears to have reneged on promises she made when she took the job last year that she’d be candid with lawmakers.
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Mitt Romney to retire, make way for a ‘new generation of leaders’
Romney in 2020 became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president from their own party in an impeachment trial.
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McCarthy directs House panel to open Biden impeachment inquiry
The Republican leader is once again at a political crossroads — trying to keep his most conservative lawmakers satisfied and prevent his own ouster.
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Bradsher becomes first woman confirmed to VA’s second-highest post
The Army veteran was nominated to the department leadership post back in April.
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McCarthy juggles govt. shutdown, Biden impeachment as House returns
Congress faces a deadline to fund the government by the end of the month, or risk a potentially devastating federal shutdown.
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