Government Barreling Towards Shutdown
The government continues to barrel towards a shutdown as it appears increasingly unlikely that a spending bill will pass through both the House and the Senate before this Friday’s government funding deadline.

The government continues to barrel towards a shutdown as it appears increasingly unlikely that a spending bill will pass through both the House and the Senate before this Friday’s government funding deadline.
President Donald Trump backed the House leadership’s short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
The House Freedom Caucus asked for a floor vote on the Goodlatte-Labrador immigration reform bill in exchange for temporary government funding.
Congress continues to scramble to pass a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown on Friday.
The House Freedom Caucus and House Speaker Paul Ryan continue to spar about year-end spending over concerns of DACA amnesty.
One year after the fateful 2016 presidential election, the Republican establishment continues to “fall like dominoes” to populist pressure from President Donald Trump’s base that wants to enact the president’s agenda.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), a member of the House Freedom Caucus, wrote a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) that Republicans should retroactively cut taxes starting on January 1, 2017.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News that Republicans will only succeed in the midterm elections if “they get behind the Trump agenda.”
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) told reporters on Thursday morning that “11 or 12 governors” support former Sen. Rick Santorum’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that while the congressional leadership’s healthcare bills kept Obamacare’s infrastructure in place, his coalition’s plan to repeal and replace “is truly and fundamentally a different approach than Obamacare.”
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) is warning that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “could lose their jobs” if they fail to deliver President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, according to The Hill’s Alexander Bolton and Scott Wong.
The White House said that it will provide subsidies for health insurers for August, despite President Donald Trump’s previous threats that he would end the subsidies after the fallout of the failed Senate vote to repeal Obamacare.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) will negotiate with former Tuesday Group Co-chairman Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) to include more conservative reforms in a potential Obamacare stabilization package.
The House Freedom Caucus unveiled an Obamacare repeal bill this week that passed through the House and Senate in 2015 and would repeal the vast majority of the Affordable Care Act.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that “the time for talk is over” and that Republicans must repeal Obamacare.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that the Senate health care bill is a “non-starter.”