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By Maegan Vazquez, Marianna Sotomayor  ·  The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden signed a congressional spending bill into law Saturday morning, putting to bed the threat of a potential Christmastime government shutdown and kicking the issue for a new Congress and a new president to address next year. Friday evening, the House and […]

By Maegan Vazquez, Marianna Sotomayor  ·  The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden signed a congressional spending bill into law Saturday morning, putting to bed the threat of a potential Christmastime government shutdown and kicking the issue for a new Congress and a new president to address next year. Friday evening, the House and […]

By Mark Berman, Matt Viser · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden on Monday is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row to life without parole, taking the unprecedented step ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, whose incoming administration is widely expected to restart executions. Opponents of capital […]

By Mark Berman, Matt Viser · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden on Monday is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row to life without parole, taking the unprecedented step ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, whose incoming administration is widely expected to restart executions. Opponents of capital […]

By Aaron Blake · The Washington Post (c) 2024 The federal government has been hurtling toward a shutdown at midnight early Saturday ever since Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump blew up a bipartisan deal to fund the government two days ago. And while Trump had been slow to engage and has provided mixed signals about […]

By Aaron Blake · The Washington Post (c) 2024 The federal government has been hurtling toward a shutdown at midnight early Saturday ever since Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump blew up a bipartisan deal to fund the government two days ago. And while Trump had been slow to engage and has provided mixed signals about […]

By Jeff Stein, Tony Romm, Daniel Gilbert · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Legislation to keep the government from shutting down has gotten smaller – but it still hasn’t passed. The original plan negotiated between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Democrats in both chambers ran more than 1,500 pages, while the legislation that the House voted down […]

By Jeff Stein, Tony Romm, Daniel Gilbert · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Legislation to keep the government from shutting down has gotten smaller – but it still hasn’t passed. The original plan negotiated between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Democrats in both chambers ran more than 1,500 pages, while the legislation that the House voted down […]

By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Since he was elected, President-elect Donald Trump has waffled on his campaign-season vow to punish his enemies when he returns to the White House, declaring this month that his “retribution will be through success.” But many of Trump’s critics – and targets – fear that his long-promised campaign […]

By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Since he was elected, President-elect Donald Trump has waffled on his campaign-season vow to punish his enemies when he returns to the White House, declaring this month that his “retribution will be through success.” But many of Trump’s critics – and targets – fear that his long-promised campaign […]