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The latest from Capitol Hill.

  • Senators vote on the funding plan on the Senate floor on Sunday.
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    The Senate sent a funding bill to the House. Here’s what has to happen next to reopen the government
  • Schumer didn’t vote for bill to reopen the government. He’s facing liberal fury anyway.
  • Senate votes to end government shutdown, sending funding bill to the House
  • Inside the negotiations that produced a deal to end the shutdown
  • Ghislaine Maxwell gets special treatment in prison, Rep. Jamie Raskin says a whistleblower told him
  • Senate advances deal to reopen government after centrist Democrats strike major deal to end shutdown
  • What is Trump’s proposal to pay Americans directly for health care costs?
  • Trump’s filibuster fixation intensifies after a tough week for the GOP
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On the Hill

  • A TSA agent holds her daughter as she collects a donation of produce, meat and yogurt at a food distribution center organized to assist federal employees missing paychecks during the government shutdown, in Dania Beach, Florida, on October 28.
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    Senate Democrats block GOP-led bill to pay federal workers as shutdown stalemate deepens
  • The US Capitol on November 6, 2025.
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    Democrats expected to block GOP push to reopen government without more health care commitments
  • Rep. Nancy Pelosi akes the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, on August 21, 2024.
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    Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection to Congress after nearly 40 years in Washington
  • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries talk while waiting to speak during the March for Israel on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2023.
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    How Johnson and Jeffries’ once collegial relationship has soured in the era of Trump and shutdown politics
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.
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    Democrats emboldened by election results mobilize against centrists’ emerging shutdown deal
  • This screengrab taken from a video posted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shows two boats shortly before they are struck by a missile, in the Eastern Pacific on October 27, 2025. In his post, Hegseth said that US military forces struck these boats and two others, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor.
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    Top Democrat expresses confidence in US intel on boat strikes, but calls for more transparency from Trump administration
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives for a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on September 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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    Outraged liberals warn Democratic leaders not to cave on shutdown
  • People cross Pennsylvania Avenue near the US Capitol in Washington DC, at dawn on October 1, 2025.
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    Congress ties record for longest shutdown as bipartisan talks pick up steam
  • Vice President Dick Cheney listens as President Bush, not pictured, speaks to reporters after a closed door intelligence briefing at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, on October 24, 2008.
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    Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies
  • Workers sort tomatoes at a food pantry in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on October 29, 2025.
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    Uncertainty persists for SNAP recipients, federal workers as shutdown drags on
  • Kerry Bird speaks during a hearing at the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on October 29, 2025.
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    Native American leaders say layoffs and benefit lapses are making this shutdown more painful for Native communities
  • A crosswalk signal of a traffic light flashes backdropped by the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 1, the first day of the US federal government shutdown.
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    ‘The problem is everybody wants to win’: Congress bitterly deadlocked as shutdown pain skyrockets
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  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks to reporters outside of his office in the US Capitol on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.
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    Republican leaders reject ending the Senate filibuster despite Trump’s call to nuke it
  • Elise Stefanik at the annual CPAC DC conference at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, Maryland on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025.
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    Elise Stefanik plans to launch bid for New York governor
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