Now, let's get you caught up on what's going on in Washington over the weekend. The Senate now taking a first step towards ending that more than 40-day now long government shutdown. Emily Wilkins is uh I don't know if you slept for the last 72 hours.Where are we. >> Well, Andrew, we we have a breakthrough. We've Congress has broken through the log jam and they now appear to be on this glide path to reopen the government.Now, what happened last night is eight Senate Democrats, we've been looking for that num ...

Welcome back. It is day 30 of the federal government shutdown and after a month of deadlock and stalemate, there is still no clear path to reopening the government anytime soon. But there are some fuzzy paths potentially emerging as lawmakers say talks are happening between rank and file members on both sides of the aisle about trying to end the current mess by focusing on a bigger and broader and hopefully bipartisan appropriations process.But how quickly, if at all, those talks produce any actual concrete ...

🇺🇸 UPDATE: The U.S. government shutdown is now in its third week after the Senate again rejected a temporary funding bill.Polymarket odds now show a 73% chance the shutdown lasts over a month. https://t.co/shEwApSPmn ...

We do want to turn now to domestic politics. As the government shutdown enters its second day with no end in sight and the White House aims to ramp up the pressure on Democrats, the administration says a mass layoffs of federal workers are imminent as the president meets with the budget director today. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt telling reporters layoffs will likely affect thousands of federal workers.As the president makes clear he will continue to target government projects and agencies h ...

Republican congressional leaders say they are searching for an off-ramp to the rapidly approaching US government shutdown but refuse to use a must-pass funding bill to address Democrats’ health-care priorities. https://t.co/fKpaLBU9Of ...

Senate rejects both the House-passed stopgap funding bill and a Democratic alternative as an end-of-month government shutdown deadline nears.https://t.co/se7FWYl1oa https://t.co/24Zw84DloB ...