DAILYCALLER (Nicole Silverio) - Major Permitting Bill Has Been Tied Up In Senate For Months. What’s The Holdup?
‘Rigging the system’
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - What's next for the farm bill?
Congress is woefully behind on passing a farm bill, which it is supposed to do every five years but has not since 2018.
AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Schumer backs down on shutdown threat, giving Senate Republicans a political win
Senate Democrats abandoned months of brinkmanship and backed a bipartisan spending bill to keep the government open, a retreat that Senate Majority Leader John Thune says was driven by cold electoral math ahead of the midterm elections. The Senate advanced a continuing resolution on Saturday to avert yet another government shutdown, with Minority Leader Chuck […] The post Schumer backs down on shutdown threat, giving Senate Republicans a political win appeared first on American Almanac .
Senate Democrats abandoned months of brinkmanship and backed a bipartisan spending bill to keep the government open, a retreat that Senate Majority Leader John Thune says was driven by cold electoral math ahead of the midterm elections. The Senate advanced a continuing resolution on Saturday to avert yet another government shutdown, with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his caucus supporting the measure after weeks of resistance. The CR would fund federal agencies at current levels through December 11, pushing the next budget fight past Election Night and into a lame-duck session of Congress. Thune told Fox News Digital that Democrats made a political calculation, not a principled one. He said the minority party did not want to spend…Open
AXIOS (Hans Nichols) - Thune-Trump tensions escalate as clock ticks on megabill 3.0
Senate Majority Leader John Thune repeated to White House officials in private what he's been saying in public for weeks: We don't have the votes . Why it matters: President Trump isn't buying it — and he's questioning whether Thune is the man for the job. - "Well, we're gonna find out," Trump said Wednesday. "I'll let you know." - Asked Wednesday evening about Trump saying the votes were gettable, Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters, "That must be a different form of math." Driving the news: Hours earlier, two of Trump's top aides met with Senate Republicans at their weekly lunch to press them to pass a three-part budget reconciliation bill before leaving town, Axios scooped earlier Wednesday . - The goal is to move a House budget…
REDSTATE (Bob Hoge) - It's Official: We Have a New Director of National Intelligence, and Democrats Are Hopping Mad
REDSTATE (Teri Christoph) - Trump's Blunt Message to Thune: Nuke Your Vacation *and* the Filibuster, Get the Job Done
THEFEDERALIST (Shawn Fleetwood and Hannah Bates) - Vulnerable House Dems Refuse To Say If They’ll Back Anti-Court-Packing Amendment
The Federalist contacted 16 House Dems in competitive districts to see where they stand on packing SCOTUS and whether they'll support HJR 1 when it comes to the floor.
NPR (David Folkenflik) - In South Dakota, public media endures a year after federal funding was wiped out
We check in on one state public broadcasting network a year after President Trump signed a law ending federal funding of public media.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Can Trump’s SAVE America Act stop election interference? The Senate's not convinced
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is doubling down on President Donald Trump's claims of foreign interference and fraud in U.S. elections, using the argument to press Congress to pass the president's sweeping elections overhaul, the Save America Act. NewsNation's Joe Khalil has more. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - House members head to vacation early as rebels freeze votes on the floor
House Republican leaders are set to send the chamber home early for the second week in a row amid mounting tensions after GOP rebels on Tuesday again blocked action on the House floor. Leaders will send the chamber home after votes at 5:15 pm on Tuesday, two GOP sources confirmed, after rebels earlier in the day sank a procedural vote that would have teed up action on the annual defense authorization bill. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5948378-house-early-recess-defense-bill/ #HouseofRepresentatives #Congress #Senate #SaveAct #Trump #AnnaPaulinaLuna #MikeJohnson #GOP #Republicans