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The Latest Breaking News from Kevin McCarthy

House votes against stopgap bill in blow to McCarthy as shutdown highly likely

Speaker’s proposed measure tanked by hard-right Republicans with time running out before government funding lapses

The Guardian - US

McCarthy launches last-ditch plan to keep government open but with steep 30% cuts to many agencies

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is rushing into a last-ditch plan to keep the government temporarily open but with steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies

The Independent UK

Senate to vote on stopgap bill on Saturday after House Republican measure fails – as it happened

House leadership announces votes expected for Saturday after McCarthy suffers another blog when lawmakers rejected short-term funding bill

The Guardian - US

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What is a US government shutdown and who will be affected?

Al Jazeera breaks down the wide-reaching effects of a federal government shutdown as October 1 funding deadline looms.

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Reason

House GOP looks ahead to Plan B after doomed stopgap vote - Roll Call

House Republicans are starting to come around to the idea of a very short-term stopgap funding measure to avoid a government shutdown.

Roll Call

Up First briefing: Effects of a shutdown; health workers may strike; Maui conspiracies

What will stay open if the government shuts down? Kaiser Permanente's health care workers near a nationwide walkout. How conspiracy theories spread in the wake of wildfires in Hawaii.

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First Thing: Biden says Trump 2.0 would threaten democracy

Faced with stagnant approval ratings, president ups ante in his re-election campaign. Plus, the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

The Guardian - UK

The far right has been feuding with McCarthy for weeks. Here's how it's spiraling into a shutdown.

With little time left to prevent a government shutdown, the House is in a familiar position: effectively paralyzed as conservatives feud with Speaker Kevin McCarthy

The Independent UK

The White House chief of staff says it's on House Republicans to avert a shutdown

Jeff Zients has been getting the White House prepared for the first government shutdown of the Biden administration. Here's what the chief of staff told NPR about it.

WEKU

US House Republicans hold first formal Biden impeachment hearing

House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to “provide accountability” as they probe the family finances and lucrative business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate.

France 24

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

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Al Jazeera

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.

The Guardian - US

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

WEKU

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.

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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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The Texas Tribune

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.

Reason

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.

The Guardian - US

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 Independent UK

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

WEKU

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.

Zenger

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.

The Independent UK

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

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