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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that the Senate could take action “as early as today” on a stopgap funding bill to keep the government funded through early December and avert a shutdown this week.

When Democrats passed a one-year expansion of the child tax credit in their Covid relief bill earlier this year, it was seen by many in the party as a triumph, a move that could reduce child poverty by nearly half this year.

Approximately 4,600 Haitians have been removed from the United States on repatriation flights from Texas to Haiti since September 19, a Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday.

Top military officials warned Tuesday that the war in Afghanistan and the war on terror are not over, even if the US military no longer maintains boots on the ground after 20 years of a consistent military presence in the country.

During a Senate hearing on Tuesday over the frenzied US withdrawal from Afghanistan, top generals seemingly contradicted earlier claims from President Joe Biden on the administration’s plan to remove troops.

Hear Gen. Mark Milley reply after Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked him to confirm whether he had spoken with several journalists for their books in the waning days of Donald Trump’s administration.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley are testifying publicly before Senate lawmakers Tuesday, the first time that top military officials will appear before Congress since the full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

More than 100 US citizens and green card holders and nine special immigrant visa holders were evacuated from Afghanistan via a private charter flight on Tuesday, according to two organizations involved in the effort.

A leading Democratic advocacy group is launching a $1.7 million digital advertising campaign this week to mobilize voters to turn out in this fall’s elections in two key states.