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45m ago \/ 11:42 AM EST<\/p>\n

Thune warns of ‘immense’ impact on travel if government doesn’t reopen<\/h2>\n
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., implored Democrats this morning to provide the votes to reopen the government, citing impending flight delays announced by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy yesterday.<\/p>\n

“That means widespread flight cancellations, supply chain issues, hundreds of thousands of passengers dealing with disruption to travel every day,\u201d\u00a0Thune said in remarks on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact this will have will be immense,” Thune said. He blamed Senate Democrats for refusing to back a House-passed short-term spending bill favored by Republicans that would extend current funding levels until later this month. <\/p>\n

Democrats have been pushing to include an extension of expiring Obamacare subsidies in any short-term funding measure, but Republicans have refused to discuss health care provisions until the government reopens. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2h ago \/ 11:07 AM EST<\/p>\n

Trump jeers Pelosi’s retirement as ‘a great thing for America’<\/h2>\n
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Trump said today that Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term “is a great thing for America,” Fox News reported. <\/p>\n

Fox News’ Peter Doocy shared the quote on air from Trump and then a White House X account posted it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America,” Trump said, calling her “evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country.”<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was rapidly losing control of her party and she was never coming back,\u201d Trump said, according to Doocy. \u201cI\u2019m very honored she impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. Nancy Pelosi is a highly overrated politician.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelosi’s office declined to comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2h ago \/ 10:29 AM EST<\/p>\n

Planned ICE call center aims to track down unaccompanied migrant minors<\/h2>\n
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aims to open a call center that would have a dedicated unit to track down unaccompanied migrant children with the help of state and local police, an agency contracting document said, part of a wider Trump administration effort to find and potentially deport the minors.<\/p>\n

The center would aim to feed information from state and local police to federal authorities, including the locations of unaccompanied children, according to the document, which was posted to a government contracting website Tuesday. ICE wants to create a round-the-clock facility that could handle 6,000-7,000 calls per day related to immigration enforcement, it said.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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3h ago \/ 9:52 AM EST<\/p>\n

Trump urged China’s Xi to free jailed Hong Kong media tycoon<\/h2>\n
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During his meeting last week<\/a> with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Trump raised the case of Jimmy Lai<\/a>, a Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist who is facing life imprisonment on national security charges, a White House official told NBC News.<\/p>\n

Trump had said he would talk to Xi about Lai, 77, who according to his family and rights groups has spent more than 1,700 days in solitary confinement amid a lengthy trial that ended in August. Lai, the founder of the now-defunct pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily<\/a>, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, and one charge of conspiracy to publish seditious material. A date for the verdict has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

Trump has said he hopes to \u201csave\u201d Lai, and said last year that \u201c100%, I\u2019ll get him out\u201d of China and that it would be \u201cso easy,\u201d drawing a warning<\/a> from Hong Kong\u2019s top leader not to interfere. <\/p>\n

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Lai was the \u201cprincipal mastermind and perpetrator\u201d behind anti-government protests that roiled the Chinese territory for months in 2019. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe central government firmly supports Hong Kong\u2019s judicial authorities in performing their duties in accordance with the law,\u201d she told reporters in Beijing today. \u201cHong Kong affairs are China\u2019s internal affairs and brook no external interference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reuters also reported<\/a> that Trump and Xi had discussed Lai, citing three people briefed on the talks and a U.S. administration official.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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4h ago \/ 9:11 AM EST<\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi, first female speaker of the House, won\u2019t seek re-election to Congress <\/h2>\n
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In a final love letter to San Francisco, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who made history as the nation\u2019s first female speaker of the House and twice served in that top job, announced in a video message today that she will not seek re-election in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not be seeking re-election to Congress. With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative,\u201d Pelosi, 85, said in her video message to San Francisco voters, interlaced with sweeping imagery of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Coit Tower and other landmarks, as well as photos that captured her storied political career.<\/p>\n

The powerful California Democrat led her party in the House for two decades \u2014 from 2002 to 2022 \u2014 serving as a crucial ally for Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and orchestrating the opposition to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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4h ago \/ 8:49 AM EST<\/p>\n

Trump and Republicans grapple With Election Day 2025 losses <\/h2>\n
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Following a string of Democratic wins on election night, Trump and Republicans are pointing to the ongoing government shutdown and a lack of focus on affordability issues for the losses. It comes as the Supreme Court is questioning the legality of Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs. NBC\u2019s Garrett Haake reports for “TODAY.”<\/p>\n

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5h ago \/ 8:01 AM EST<\/p>\n

U.N. Ambassador Mike Walz presents Security Council members with resolution on Gaza peace plan<\/h2>\n
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz presented the 10 elected members of the Security Council yesterday with a draft resolution on the Gaza peace plan, a U.S. official tells NBC News.<\/p>\n

The resolution backs the proposed Board of Peace, an international body to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, and authorizes the peacekeeping forces outlined in Trump\u2019s 20-point peace plan, said a spokesperson for the U.S. mission to the U.N. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Waltz was joined by representatives of Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates in what the U.S. official described as \u201cshowing clear regional support.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The elected members of the Security Council include Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Somalia.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if the U.S. had shared the draft with permanent members Russia and China, who would be able to veto the resolution\u2019s passage. <\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the U.S. was working on a possible United Nations resolution to support the proposed international peacekeeping force as part of the U.S. brokered peace agreement, which some countries have said is a requirement for their participation.<\/p>\n

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly in September that his country was ready to deploy peacekeeping forces to the territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf and when the Security Council and this assembly decide, we are ready to deploy 20,000 or even more of our sons and daughters to help secure peace in Gaza or elsewhere in Palestine as part of a united multilateral force so that the two-state solution, so that peace in both Palestine and Israel, can become real, not just envisioned,\u201d Subianto said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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6h ago \/ 7:17 AM EST<\/p>\n

The FAA is set to start cutting flights to contend with delays, staffing shortages <\/h2>\n
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The Federal Aviation Administration will begin cutting the number of flights in the \u201chigh-traffic\u201d parts of the country as the government shutdown grinds on and local airports have reported staffing shortages, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is going to be a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 of our locations,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cThis is about where\u2019s the pressure and how do we alleviate the pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the reduction in capacity would start tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The development comes as the shutdown has entered its second month and in the wake of a weekend during which dozens of American airports reported hundreds of delays.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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6h ago \/ 7:17 AM EST<\/p>\n

House GOP lawmaker says funding could run out this week for program that helps cover heating bills <\/h2>\n
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Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., warned in a\u00a0statement\u00a0yesterday<\/a>\u00a0that a federal program aimed at assisting low-income households with paying their energy bills could run dry \u201cby the end of this week\u201d if the government shutdown persists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a life-or-death issue, and it is unconscionable not to fund it,\u201d Burchett said. \u201cI am calling on Senate Democrats to reopen the government and stop elderly Americans from being left out in the cold this winter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $4.1 billion Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program helps pay heating costs during colder months. The program, known by its acronym LIHEAP, serves 5.9 million households, according to the\u00a0Office of the Administration for Children\u00a0and\u00a0Families<\/a>\u00a0at the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n

NBC News reported in April that the Trump administration terminated the entire staff<\/a>\u00a0that was responsible for providing oversight and technical assistance for the program at HHS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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6h ago \/ 7:17 AM EST<\/p>\n

Trump again encourages Republicans to end filibuster <\/h2>\n
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Trump again encouraged Republicans to do away with the filibuster during a Fox New interview that aired last night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that if we got rid of the filibuster, we would approve so many good things, common sense things, wonderful things, that it would be hard to beat us. If we don\u2019t, it\u2019s always going to be a slog,\u201d Trump told Fox News host Bret Baier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say absolutely without question, I have no doubt in my mind, get rid of it, and the Republicans should do it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s effort to terminate the filibuster, in an effort to reopen the government without support from Democrats,\u00a0hit a roadblock<\/a>\u00a0with some Republican lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who said that he would work to ensure the\u00a0legislative filibuster was kept intact\u00a0<\/a>during his leadership.<\/p>\n

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Trump made a similar plea in a\u00a0video statement\u00a0<\/a>posted on Truth Social tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s now time for the Republicans to play their trump card and go for what\u2019s called the nuclear option. Get rid of the filibuster and get rid of it now,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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6h ago \/ 7:17 AM EST<\/p>\n

Partial SNAP benefits for November will be more than previously estimated, Trump official says <\/h2>\n
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An official with the Agriculture Department told a federal court last night that\u00a0allotments to SNAP beneficiaries<\/a>\u00a0for November will be 65% of their normal rate instead of the 50% previously estimated by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The administration had told a federal judge Monday that it would\u00a0use more than $4 billion in contingency funds<\/a>\u00a0to distribute half of the monthly benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, during the ongoing government shutdown.<\/p>\n

The revised figures mean a family of four in the lower 48 states will receive about $646 for the month.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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