House Democratic leaders are whipping against the bipartisan Senate bill to reopen the government, Punchbowl News reports.
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) wrote in an email: “HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE URGED TO VOTE NO.”
The Hill: Liberal fury over shutdown deal convulses Democrats.
“The House is set to return to work Wednesday after a staggering 54 days out of session. Ending the record government shutdown will be the least of Speaker Mike Johnson’s problems,” Politico reports.
“Tensions have been running high for weeks over Johnson’s decision to shut down the House for the duration of the shutdown, sparking intense criticism from Democrats and private alarm inside pockets of the House GOP.”
“With members now returning to Washington after spending nearly two months dispersed across the country, he is faced with jump-starting dormant committee work, tackling a looming health care deadline and resolving long-brewing internal conflicts over the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and congressional stock-trading — if he can reopen the government first.”
“President Trump on Monday signaled his support for a Senate agreement to end the government shutdown and said he would abide by the deal, which includes a reversal of mass layoffs,” The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “It depends what deal we’re talking about. But if it’s the deal I heard about… I would say so.”
He added: “I think based on everything I’m hearing they haven’t changed anything, and we have support from enough Democrats, and we’re going to be opening up our country. It’s too bad it was closed, but we’re going to be opening up our country very quickly.”
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“I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), quoted by Semafor.
New York Magazine has compiled a running list of President Trump’s most outrageous and ridiculous White House renovations.
“Cheryl Hines said Democrats have been giving her a hard time ever since her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. began his rise in politics, though the GOP has always been nice,” The Wrap reports.
Said Hines: “The Republicans have been very kind to me, from the beginning.”
“The Trump administration on Monday said it still wants the Supreme Court to block lower-court decisions requiring it to pay full food assistance benefits to about 42 million Americans who rely on the nation’s largest anti-hunger program,” the Washington Post reports.
“Chief Justice John Roberts faces a defining challenge as he enters his third decade leading the Supreme Court: how far to let Donald Trump’s presidency rewrite the bounds of executive power,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Over Trump’s first year back in office, the court has given the president wide latitude to implement his policies, through some two dozen emergency orders that paused the effect of lower-court rulings against the administration. But it hadn’t fully reviewed any of Trump’s actions until last Wednesday’s hearing on Trump’s global tariffs, where the dynamics shifted: Most justices suggested the president acted beyond his legal authority.”
“If those sentiments find their way into a ruling, it would be the court’s first real blow to Trump in more than five years. Now it is up to Roberts to cobble together a decision on a policy that Trump has portrayed as essential to the nation.”
“President Trump threatened to dock the pay of air-traffic controllers who don’t return to work, as flight cancellations and delays spread across the country because of the government shutdown,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“He said he would recommend air-traffic controllers who didn’t take off time during the shutdown receive a $10,000 per person bonus.”
New York Times: “For the better part of two years, well before the federal government shut down and SNAP payments were paused, lower-income consumers have been slowing their spending, especially for discretionary items. Nearly three-quarters of individuals who receive SNAP benefits live below the poverty line, making less than $32,000 a year for a family of four.”
“The ripple effect of that spending pullback is being felt by retailers, food companies and restaurant chains.”
“On the campaign trail, President Trump couldn’t talk about affordability enough. He vowed that should he retake the White House, he would tackle it on many fronts,” the New York Times reports.
“Over the past week, he could barely stand to hear the word.”
“Since Democratic victories in elections last week on platforms that focused on bringing down the cost of living, Mr. Trump has angrily confronted the reality that he has lost ground on an issue that helped deliver him a second term.”
Since January, Washington, D.C. plastic surgeons have seen a wave of Trump insiders asking for overt procedures in line with the “Mar-a-Lago face” look, Axios reports.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told CNBC the eight senators who folded on the government shutdown were taking heat for others: “There were a lot more than eight that were really happy that the eight of us voted… the way we did.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Scripps that he and Speaker Mike Johnson haven’t talked lately about a House vote on a bill to restore Obamacare subsidies.
Said Thune: “My commitment was to have that vote here, and they’ll have to figure out what to do in the House.”
“Airlines braced for further chaos this week, despite a deal in the Senate to end the government shutdown,” the New York Times reports.
“About 5,000 flights were canceled from Friday through Sunday as federal restrictions on flying at the nation’s busiest airports kicked in… The disruption peaked at 10 percent of scheduled flights on Sunday, the fourth worst day for cancellations this year. By Monday morning, more than 1,400 flights had been canceled for the day, more than 5.5 percent of scheduled trips.”
“It’s not great when your defiant kid says you are wrong,” the New York Times reports.
“It’s a little bit worse when you are in the United States Senate and your defiant kid is running for Congress.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries backed Chuck Schumer, his Senate counterpart, amid a progressive backlash to Schumer’s handling of a compromise to end the government shutdown, Politico reports.
When asked if Schumer was effective and should keep his job, Jeffries said: “Yes and yes.”
USA Today: Progressive group calls for Schumer to resign over shutdown vote.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) announced Monday that she is not running for reelection next year and will retire at the end of her term, saying that it is “time to pass the torch,” Politico reports.
The 80-year-old has served New Jersey’s 12th District since 2015, when she became the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in the House.
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