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7:40 PM ET, December 20, 2024

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New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: House Approves Stopgap Funding Bill Hours Ahead of Shutdown Deadline  —  The new legislation would keep the government open but did not include the debt ceiling increase that President-elect Donald J. Trump had demanded.  It now goes to the Senate.  —  Here are the latest developments.
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
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Politico:
House GOP picks new funding plan that will need wide Democratic support  —  House Republicans have landed on their fourth plan to fund the government: Relying on Democrats to pass a bill that doesn't include a debt limit measure pushed by Donald Trump.  House Republicans voted …
Eric Levitz / Vox:
House Republicans just exposed the limits of Trump's power  —  That bodes poorly for his agenda next year. … This week's installment of the long-running saga, “House Republicans cannot govern,” will soon be forgotten.  Elon Musk's decision to blow up a bipartisan agreement to keep …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Musk Shows Trump That He's the New Chaos in Town  —  If you haven't seen the details, the meltdown on Capitol Hill went from bad to worse this evening.  Or awesome to awesomer, depending on your perspective.  Let's review.  Donald Trump wanted a smooth ride to January 20th.
Associated Press:
House sets up vote to prevent government shutdown, dropping Trump's demand for debt limit  —  Hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan late Friday from Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid …
Axios:
House passes 11th-hour bill to avert government shutdown … - The vote was 366-34.  — The measure also includes a one-year Farm Bill extension and over $100 billion in disaster relief for hurricane-ravaged areas. … - The House failed to pass a bill Thursday that would have also included …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Mike Johnson's magic debt ceiling promise … - Don't ask about Plan C: It lived a short, unhappy life, mostly confined to X.  — Johnson's Plan D survived because Republicans pretended the debt ceiling was in the agreement and Democrats know that it's not.
Discussion: Politico and Washington Examiner
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
House passes spending bill to avert government shutdown without Trump's debt limit demand
Punchbowl News:
12-20-24-A-PREMIUM ONLY Special Edition
Discussion: UPI
Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair:
Republicans Own This Government Shutdown S—t Show
Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
Elon Killed the Budget Deal. Cancer Research for Kids Was Collateral Damage.
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump was poised to inherit a strong economy. Then things got rocky and he added to the uncertainty
Discussion: Salon
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Republicans will probably be blamed for a shutdown
Nette Nöstlinger / Politico:
Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany's far right  —  Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering an outcry in Berlin in the run-up to a critical snap election.  —  “Only the AfD can save Germany,” the billionaire X owner wrote on the platform on Friday …
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CNN:
Party City is going out of business  —  New York CNN —  Party City is closing down all of its stores, ending nearly 40 years in business, CNN has learned.  —  CEO Barry Litwin told corporate employees Friday in a meeting viewed by CNN that Party City is “winding down” …
Fox News:
2 dead, many injured after man drives into German Christmas market in suspected terror attack: report  —  A festive Christmas market in Eastern Germany erupted into chaos after a car was driven into a group of people in the city of Magdeburg on Friday in a suspected terrorist attack.
Associated Press:
White House starts scrapping pending regulations on transgender athletes and student debt  —  President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first steps …
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Michael Stratford / Politico:
Biden abandons mass student debt cancellation plans amid GOP lawsuit
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Replace Officials Whom New Presidents Traditionally Leave Alone  —  Congress devised some positions to stay on during changes in administrations.  But Donald Trump has declared his intent to replace at least three.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump has moved to install loyalists …
Alexander Hurst / The Guardian:
Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state - it's time we reined him in  —  He has bankrolled elections, stoked riots and ignored laws.  We mustn't make the mistake of playing nice with the world's richest bully  —  Elon Musk is, more or less, a rogue state.
Rosemary Westwood / NPR:
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots  —  A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events.  —  Instead, they were told …
New York Times:
‘It Will Be a More Robust Check on Trump Than the G.O.P. Congress’: Three Legal Experts on Trump 2.0  —  Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Times Opinion columnist David French and Jack Goldsmith, a law professor at Harvard and a co-author of …
The Guardian:
Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege  —  Exclusive: Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline - a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein - is likely illegal and exploitative of workers
Discussion: Alternet.org, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Financial Times:
Trump wants 5% Nato defence spending target, Europe told  —  US president-elect's closest foreign policy aides indicate he will continue arming Ukraine while pursuing end to war  —  Donald Trump's team has told European officials that the incoming US president will demand Nato member states …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Daily Mail
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Newest GOP funding bill includes health extenders, but not PMB reform: Guthrie  —  The latest government funding proposal being assembled by GOP leaders likely will include some must-pass short-term extensions of health policies, even as the legislation drops much of the bipartisan health package negotiated earlier this week.
 
 
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New York Times:
Biden Administration Weighs Putting Up Roadblocks to Trump's Deportation Campaign
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Arizona prosecutors seek access to trove of Trump allies' emails, texts
Discussion: Raw Story
Pluralistic:
Trumpism's healthcare fracture-lines (permalink)
Robert Reich:
The American oligarchy is back, and it's out of control
 Earlier Items: 
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Warren, Smith reintroduce bill to strengthen US pharmaceutical supply chains
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Postmortems Are Bad at Predictions: Democrats May Just Need a ‘Change’ Election
CNBC:
‘Tariffs all the way’: Trump says European Union must buy U.S. oil and gas in trade ultimatum
Allie Griffin / New York Post:
George Mason freshman, 18, busted for plotting attack on Israel's NYC consulate — as he was facing possible deportation
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump is not immune in NY case, and he's big mad about it
 

 
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