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The Latest Breaking News from Kevin McCarthy

Gaetz and McCarthy bicker over political attacks as House GOP careens towards shutdown

Republicans debate budget proposals as deal to avert shutdown appears out of reach

The Independent UK

McCarthy rejects Senate spending bill while scrambling for a House plan that averts a shutdown

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is digging in on his refusal to take up Senate legislation designed to keep the federal government fully running beyond midnight Saturday

The Independent UK

House Republicans start making their case for President Biden impeachment inquiry at first hearing

House Republicans are making the case for pursuing an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden

The Independent UK

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Republicans hold first Biden impeachment hearing as gov’t shutdown looms

Republicans are investigating corruption allegations against Biden family in push rejected by White House as baseless.

Al Jazeera

Republicans clamor to impeach Biden: six key things to know about the first hearing

House hearing marks an escalation even as Republicans fail to produce substantive evidence of president’s alleged corruption

The Guardian - US

Here's what House Republicans are alleging in their impeachment inquiry against Biden

House Republicans are claiming President Biden benefited from foreign business deals by his son, Hunter, but they have not yet shown direct evidence of that.

WEKU

McCarthy revives immigration battles in bid to shift shutdown blame from GOP feuds

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy still faces a bloc of conservatives who oppose any short-term funding bill to avoid a shutdown. He's trying to muscle through a partisan stopgap bill with border security.

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How the looming government shutdown will affect Texans

A federal shutdown would put thousands of Texans in financial precarity. Congress has less than a week left until the end of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, and a shutdown appears imminent.

The Texas Tribune

Welfare Cuts Are Inevitable Because Congress Won't Touch Social Security

Until Congress is willing to acknowledge that it makes no sense to send monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.

Reason

Republicans pushing for government shutdown ‘stuck on stupid’, says party moderate

Mike Lawler, New York Republican, says ‘colleagues refuse to do what we were elected to do’ as shutdown looms

The Guardian - US

As Senate pushes ahead to avert a government shutdown, House Speaker McCarthy is back to square one

The Senate is marching ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one

The Independent UK

What happens to health programs if the federal government shuts down?

Medicare and Medicaid are mandatory spending programs and that keeps them relatively safe in the early days of the shutdown, but 42% of the Department of Health's staff will be furloughed.

WEKU

Rep. Gaetz Threatens Vote To Remove House Speaker McCarthy Amid Conservative Demands

Gaetz accuses McCarthy of poor leadership as the Speaker faces dilemma between conservatives and Democrats.

Zenger

Matt Gaetz vows not to get paid if government shuts down because of him

A shutdown is not ‘optimal, but I think it is better than continuing on the current path we are to America’s financial ruin,’ Florida Republican says

The Independent UK

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Roll Call

Speaker’s office looks to review Capitol press credentialing process - Roll Call

Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office has taken initial steps to form a working group to explore changes to media credentialing at the Capitol.

Al Jazeera

US Senate announces stopgap measure to avert impending government shutdown

Republicans and Democrats have agreed to a deal for six weeks of short-term funding, but it faces hurdles in the House.

Chicago Sun-Times

Government shutdown threat shows GOP extremists have no interest in governing

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is unwilling to stand up to extremists in his caucus and risk losing his position, which he has thus far squandered by pandering to conspiracy theorists and cynical opportunists.

The Independent UK

Senate poised for compromise to avert government shutdown as House GOP infighting continues

It’s unclear whether the Republican-controlled House would take up any legislation advanced by the Democratic-led Senate at this time

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Roll Call

House gets gears moving for four fiscal 2024 spending bills - Roll Call

House Republicans finally paved the way for consideration of more fiscal 2024 appropriations bills after several unsuccessful attempts.

Roll Call

Bipartisan stopgap funds bill unveiled in Senate - Roll Call

Measure would extend current funds through Nov. 17 and provide scaled-down emergency aid to Ukraine and natural disaster victims.

Al Jazeera

Will US lawmakers avert looming government shutdown? All you need to know

Hardline Republicans urging deep spending cuts are bringing US gov’t to brink of shutdown as October 1 deadline looms.

Reason

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The Guardian - US

Senate votes to advance stopgap funding bill to avoid shutdown – as it happened

The 79-page stopgap spending bill would not include any border security measures, a major sticking point for House Republicans

The Guardian - US

What does a US shutdown mean? Seven things you should know

Funding for federal agencies will run out on 30 September, a crisis fueled by ideological divisions among House Republicans

The Guardian - US

Congressional Republicans are trapped in a dangerous absurdity of their own making

By abasing himself to Trump and the most hardline Republicans, Kevin McCarthy made himself a political hostage

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