Syedah Asghar
Syedah Asghar covers Congress for MSNBC.
Syedah Asghar
Syedah Asghar covers Congress for MSNBC.
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Syedah Asghar
Republicans thought the video of the new boat strike vindicated the Trump administration. Democrats thought it was damning.
The Senate passed the bill using unanimous consent even before the legislation had formally been sent to the chamber.
After Republicans spent months dodging a vote on releasing the Epstein files, the House near-unanimously voted to make an unclassified and redacted version of the files public.
The House passed the government funding deal Wednesday night, leaving lawmakers one Donald Trump signature away from ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
Democrats and Republicans appear to be moving further apart on the shutdown, but there are signs that lawmakers could be headed toward a deal.
Different Democrats have had all sorts of different strategies throughout the shutdown. But Democrats now want to try to speak with one voice.
Trump continues to insist the best way out of the shutdown is for Republicans to end the filibuster. GOP senators aren’t having it.
Democrats said Thune’s offer of a guaranteed vote on extending Obamacare subsidies is “not what we need.”