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Republican: not enough votes to avert shutdown
House Republican leaders are moving toward a vote Thursday to avoid a shutdown, but as a new day dawns in Washington, it’s still unclear if GOP leaders have enough support to keep the government open.
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Trump children’s health insurance tweet contradicts, confounds
President Donald Trump contradicted his own administration on Thursday when he tweeted that funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program should not be included in a short-term plan to fund the government.
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GOP scramble to try to avert government shutdown
House Republican leaders are moving toward a vote Thursday to avoid a shutdown, but as a new day dawns in Washington, it’s still unclear if GOP leaders have enough support to keep the government open.
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Government to shut down in 48 hours: What to watch
House Republican leaders think they can get the votes for the short-term spending bill, but don’t have them yet.
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Republicans move ahead with vote to avoid a government shutdown
House Republican leaders are moving toward a vote Thursday to avoid a shutdown, but as a new day dawns in Washington, it’s still unclear if GOP leaders have enough support to keep the government open.
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Fearing Trump blowback, Republicans say ‘no thanks’ to 2018
Politicians — good ones, at least — make their bones by knowing which way the wind is blowing. And right now, it’s a gale force gust right in the faces of Republicans.
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Obama welcomed Trump to Washington a year ago. They haven’t spoken since.
A year since they last met, President Donald Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama haven’t spoken, the first time in decades two successive presidents have avoided communicating in the 12 months after handing off power.
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The Point: Republicans are going to get blamed for a government shutdown. Bigly.
If House Republicans can’t find a way to wrangle their always-fractious conference to support legislation that would avoid a government shutdown by Friday night, they are likely to bear the brunt of the blame for the closure and pay a serious political price as well.
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Trump hasn’t let the presidency get in the way of his golf game
President Donald Trump, after years of slamming former President Barack Obama for golfing, comes to the end of a year in office having spent close to 100 days at a golf club that bears his name.
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