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October 09, 2025
Congress
Senate won’t touch filibuster to end shutdown, Thune says
Senate Majority Leader John Thune shot down speculation that Republicans would deploy the so-called nuclear option to break the funding stalemate. The idea has gained traction on social media,...
October 09, 2025
Congress
GOP military mom presses Mike Johnson on troop pay
Speaker Mike Johnson heard a plea from a military family to move legislation paying active-duty forces amid the government shutdown in a remarkable televised exchange Thursday. Johnson was already...
October 09, 2025
Politics
Trump tells Post ‘tremendous things’ will happen in Middle East next week
President Trump spoke to The Post as he prepares to travel to the region after brokering a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in exchange for the release of all...
October 09, 2025
Congress
Republican defense cardinal throws weight behind bill to pay troops during shutdown
Rep. Ken Calvert, the House Republican in charge of defense funding, is throwing his weight behind a bipartisan bill that would allow members of the military to get paid...
October 09, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Schumer keeps his critics at bay
Chuck Schumer is winning over critics who bashed him for surrendering during this spring’s shutdown standoff. That could change fast. A POLITICO survey of Democratic lawmakers and activists finds...
October 09, 2025
Politics
Gazans join Israelis in chanting Trump’s name over cease-fire: ‘Nobel Prize to Trump!’
Footage from both the streets of Tel Aviv and war-torn Gaza showed crowds of revelers celebrating what they hope will be the end of the two-year war. Footage from...
October 09, 2025
Politics
Barron Trump tipped for leading role at TikTok
Barron, who has just moved back into the White House while he attends classes at New York University’s DC campus in the nation’s capital, has yet to comment on the proposition....
October 09, 2025
Congress
Graham Platner has a growing Senate fan club
The Maine oyster farmer is winning praise from some Democrats as he prepares to face Chuck Schumer’s dream recruit.
October 09, 2025
Congress
Chuck Schumer’s critics are praising how he’s handled the shutdown. For now.
The guardedly positive reviews for the New Yorker's leadership come as the shutdown fight enters a politically perilous new phase.
October 09, 2025
Politics
Support for embattled Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones plummets in internal poll after text scandal
“Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones texted in 2022, later adding: “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives...