According to POLITICO, the U.S. Senate has reached a bipartisan deal to end the seven-week federal government shutdown. Under the agreement, at least eight Democrats will vote “yes” on procedural motions to advance the funding bill, allowing the government to reopen as soon as this week. The deal includes full-year funding for agriculture, veterans affairs, military construction, and Congress, extends other agency funding through Jan. 30, 2026, and reinstates furloughed federal workers with back pay.https:/ ...

MSNBC's Aaya Gardner is at the White House for us. So, Aaya, what did leader F say and what does this mean. >> Well, Alex, it sounds like there's been major breakthrough in the last hour on Capitol Hill.Senator John Thun said today that there will be a vote to open the government. The exact contents of that vote, we still don't know yet, but Senator Mark Way Mullen predicted that we could see a vote within the next four to six hours. Take a listen to him earlier today talking about negotiations.>> There's a ...

the $20 million that you set aside to help fund food banks statewide. Do you know what happens with that now that it's half funded. Does that get added to the pot, so to speak.How much will be there for them this month. >> SNAP is a 100% federally funded program. >> And so we're talking $90 million a week for Illinois is what normally would be provided.>> How big of a band-aid is that. >> $20 million isn't enough. It just isn't.And we don't have enough money. $360 million in a month. We we don't have an ext ...

[Music] We are back with some breaking news. The Trump administration has now told a federal court how the US Department of Agriculture plans to partially pay for SNAP food benefits this month. The funding expired on Saturday.Uh MSNBC's Fallon Gallagher has been following this. On Friday, we talked a lot about what was going on in Massachusetts, but this eight-page response, as I understand it, from the USDA to the Rhode Island State Council of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches is about Rhode Islan ...

If we can pay the military, how could we figure something out for for the air traffic controllers. >> Yeah. So, there's strict rules around what we can pay and what we can't pay in in a government shutdown.So, um we've we've uh kept our academy uh operational in the sense that we're paying our students in the academy, a stipen that allows them to continue to um uh uh get trained and and and pay their daily needs. Uh we uh paid for a central air service, air service that goes to smaller communities. We're pu ...

In a social media post, President Trump suggested he'll provide funding for SNAP food benefits if he gets clarification from the judge who ordered his administration to use contingency funds to pay for the program. In the meantime, state officials are sounding the alarms as the lapse in assistance for millions of people begins today. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, whose state serves nearly 2 million SNAP beneficiaries, declared a disaster emergency and called on the president to follow the judge's ruli ...

President Trump has the power to keep 42 million Americans on food assistance, but so far he's refusing to release the money. On Saturday, those Americans will lose food aid known as SNAP benefits because of the shutdown. The administration is basically saying their hands are tied and there's nothing they can do about it. But that's not true. We know because Trump funded these benefits in a previous shutdown during his first term. In that shutdown, his administration took money from an expired government fu ...

Mr. Bridenstine’s recent musings promoting a new landing system – going so far as to invoke the Defense Production Act – are being misreported as though they were the unbiased thoughts of a former NASA Administrator. They are not.https://t.co/42Uqkh8BSvTo be clear, he is a paid lobbyist. He is representing his clients’ interests, and his comments should be seen for what they are – a paid lobbyist’s effort to secure billions more in government funding for his clients who are already years late and billions o ...

Senator Thun keeps talking like something's changed behind the scenes. >> Hopefully, the fever is starting to break. >> What makes you think? >> Um I I I think there's some cracks developing right now uh amongst the Democrats and uh I'm glad some common sense may finally prevail. >> We'll see. That was Republican Senator Steve Danes to me on Capitol Hill yesterday. Welcome back to Way Too Early. 5:30 on the dot here on the East Coast, 2:30 out west. I'm Ali Vitali and the government is still shut down. We'r ...

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