Johnson tried to placate Trump by bringing up a slimmed-down, 116-page version of the bill on Thursday. It included disaster relief, farm aid and the debt ceiling. Trump immediately backed it, calling ...
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"Nobody wants the optics of shutting down the government," Stifel chief Washington policy strategist Brian Gardner noted in a live Yahoo Finance appearance on Thursday, noting a shutdown would ...
A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown. President-elect Donald Trump has demanded that a ...
The bills decide government spending for a full fiscal ... who was popularly blamed for the shutdown. A January 2019 Washington Post-ABC News poll found that a majority of people blamed Trump ...