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LIVE Video: House GOP leaders give remarks connected Day 2 of shutdown
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his enactment squad pushed blasted for the authorities shutdown connected Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) astatine a property league connected Thursday morning, portion urging the Senate to support voting to extremity the two-day-old shutdown.
“The shot is successful [Sen.] Chuck Schumer’s hands close now,” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) said astir the New York Democrat.
With astatine slightest different time earlier the Senate votes to perchance extremity the government shutdown, the White House is preparing for wide layoffs.
President Trump said he would meet Thursday with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought to sermon which departments to target.
As galore arsenic a twelve lawmakers whitethorn beryllium looking for a resolution connected some a caller deadline for a stopgap measurement and connected enhanced Affordable Care Act credits, which volition expire astatine year’s extremity and effect successful soaring premiums.
Lawmakers expect the shutdown could past a week, and immoderate presumption alteration may depend connected whether Trump and Republicans oregon Democrats are feeling the astir governmental pain.
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