Congress Pulls an All-Nighter

We begin this morning with two potential breakthroughs in the ongoing DHS funding saga. First, President Trump said he will sign an emergency order to immediately pay TSA agents. Then the Senate voted to fund DHS except for ICE and border patrol. Does this mean those long securit ...  Show more

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt points to President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran as the most significant evidence yet that he “does not bluff," adding, "he is prepared to unleash hell." So, is all the talk about negotiations just a distraction from a coming invasio ...  Show more

Government funding lapsed early Wednesday morning after the White House and lawmakers failed to reach a spending deal, triggering a shutdown that is expected to halt some federal services and put hundreds of thousands of federal workers on furlough.​​ WSJ’s Natalie Andrews takes ...  Show more

16 days into the government shutdown, services are unavailable and federal workers are facing instability. Both sides have dug in, with Democrats and Republicans pointing fingers at each other. WSJ’s Siobhan Hughes explains what it would take to end the shutdown. Ryan Knutson hos ...  Show more

Ben argues why Congress' worst decisions are made when they're on tight deadlines to keep the government funded. With multiple Republican members of Congress leaving to serve in the Trump administration, Speaker Mike Johnson will now have to manage an even narrower majority. In t ...  Show more

Congress left town without reaching a deal to avoid a shutdown after the Senate blocked competing Republican and Democratic proposals to keep the federal government funded until November 21st. The failure to reach a compromise before the weekend increases the likelihood of a shut ...  Show more