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The Senate on Thursday passed a continuing resolution (CR), the fourth of the fiscal year, to avert a government shutdown scheduled for Friday, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature. Neither the Senate nor the House of…

by Ben Whedon   With the nation stuck at its $31.38 trillion debt limit and the Department of the Treasury imposing “extraordinary measures” to keep the government running, one GOP lawmaker is floating a new proposal to default federal…

by Casey Harper   President Joe Biden signed a bill forcing a deal between several rail companies and a dozen rail unions to avert a Dec. 9 strike. “With the signing of the Railway Labor Agreement, we not only spared this…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to avert what could have been an economically ruinous freight rail strike won final approval in Congress on Thursday as lawmakers responded quickly to President Joe Biden’s call for federal intervention in a…

"A rail shutdown would devastate our economy," said Biden. "Without freight rail, many U.S. industries would shut down."While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have pledged to pass the agreement before…

If the Democrats hope to avoid disaster in this November’s elections, they need to do a far better job making their case to working-class voters. Many blue-collar Americans are understandably upset about inflation, but it’s less…

Health insurance premiums for millions of Americans will spike if Congress doesn’t act in the next few months, with particularly big increases in politically contested states, according to a report that the liberal advocacy group…

MSNBC’s Morning Joe decided on Wednesday to engage in comically dumb wishcasting about President Biden’s State of the Union address, insisting Tuesday’s speech was “brilliant,” “rallying,” a “return to normalcy,” and “very…

“We’re doing a hell of a lot better than pundits thought we would,” DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) said in an interview Tuesday, adding that his team’s own internal projections put Democrats up “five to eight seats”…