Government shuts down after Senate bill collapses, negotiations fail – The Washington Post

The federal government shut down for the first time in more than four years Friday after senators rejected a temporary spending patch and bipartisan efforts to find an alternative fell short as a midnight deadline came and went. Republican and Democratic leaders both said they would continue to talk, raising the possibility of a solution…

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Senate Republicans Deploy ‘Nuclear Option’ to Clear Path for Gorsuch – The New York Times

Republicans Go Nuclear, and Senators Point Fingers Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democrat leader, called the nuclear option “the end of a long history of consensus on Supreme Court nominations” that weakened the Senate’s check on the president’s ability to shape the judiciary. Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, accused the Democrats of an “unprecedented partisan…

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