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As a government shutdown drags on with no sign of a resolution, U.S. Sen. Andy Kim placed the blame on Republicans.
At the heart of the impasse is a debate about expiring subsidies for health insurance. It's the latest chapter in a fight over Obamacare that has dominated Congress since the law was signed in 2010.
The pain of the 30-day government shutdown is expected to worsen in the coming days, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Donald Trump’s claim that he didn’t know a money-laundering crypto boss to whom he gave a pardon sparked open laughter on CNN—at the expense of one of the president’s most loyal defenders. Trump last month pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, who served four months in prison in 2024 after pleading guilty to money laundering. His company paid more ...
The GOP continues to shoulder most of the shutdown blame in the polls, only stiffening the Democratic resolve to keep up the fight.
About 600,000 federal employees are working without pay, 650,000 more are furloughed, and unemployment could rise by 0.4 of a percentage point if all furloughed employees are counted as temporary layoffs.