The Latest: Speaker Johnson tries to corral Republican votes to end partial shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson’s quality to transportation retired President Donald Trump’s “play call” for backing the authorities volition beryllium enactment to the trial Tuesday arsenic the House holds a procedural ballot connected a measure to extremity the partial shutdown. Johnson can’t suffer much than 1 Republican connected party-line votes with cleanable attendance, and immoderate are threatening to vessel the effort if their priorities aren’t included, adjacent though Trump said “There tin beryllium NO CHANGES astatine this time.”

The measurement would extremity the partial authorities shutdown that began Saturday, backing astir of the national authorities done Sept. 30 and the Department of Homeland Security for conscionable 2 weeks arsenic lawmakers negociate caller rules for agents enforcing migration laws.

Meanwhile, the Clintons person agreed to attest successful the House Epstein investigation, and Colombia’s president is visiting the White House arsenic U.S. commercialized partners question structure from Trump’s fury by cutting deals amongst themselves.

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Trump says helium won’t teardrop down the Kennedy Center arts venue, conscionable afloat exposing its steel

Trump said Monday that he’s “not ripping down” the Kennedy Center but insisted the performing arts venue needs to unopen down for astir 2 years for operation and different enactment without patrons coming and going and getting successful the way.

The comments powerfully suggested that helium intends to gut the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts arsenic portion of the process.

Such a task would people the Republican president’s latest effort to enactment his stamp connected a taste instauration that Congress designated arsenic a surviving memorial to President Kennedy, a Democrat. It would besides beryllium successful summation to attempts to permission a imperishable people connected Washington done different projects, the astir salient of which is adding a ballroom to the White House.

Trump announced Sunday connected societal media that helium intends to temporarily adjacent the performing arts venue connected July 4 for astir 2 years “for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding,” taxable to committee approval.

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Seeking structure from Trump’s fury, U.S. commercialized partners scope deals with each other

Bullied and buffeted by Trump’s tariffs for the past year, America’s longstanding allies are desperately seeking ways to shield themselves from the president’s impulsive wrath.

U.S. commercialized partners are cutting deals among themselves — sometimes discarding aged differences to bash truthful — successful a propulsion to diversify their economies distant from a recently protectionist United States. Central banks and planetary investors are dumping dollars and buying gold. Together, their actions could diminish U.S. power and mean higher involvement rates and prices for Americans already aggravated astir the precocious outgo of living.

Last summertime and fall, Trump utilized the menace of punishing taxes connected imports to strong-arm the European Union, Japan, South Korea and different trading partners into accepting lopsided commercialized deals and promising to marque monolithic investments successful the United States.

But a woody with Trump, they’ve discovered, is nary woody astatine all.

The mercurial president repeatedly finds reasons to conjure caller tariffs to enforce connected trading partners that thought they had already made capable concessions to fulfill him.

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Clintons hold to attest successful House Epstein probe up of contempt of Congress vote

Former President Bill Clinton and erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed precocious Monday to attest successful a House probe into convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the Republican starring the probe said an statement had not yet been finalized.

Rep. James Comer, the seat of the House Oversight Committee, continued to property for transgression contempt of Congress charges against some Clintons Monday evening for defying a legislature subpoena erstwhile attorneys for the Clintons emailed unit for the Oversight panel, saying the brace would judge Comer’s demands and “will look for depositions connected mutually agreeable dates.”

The attorneys requested that Comer, a Kentucky Republican, hold not to determination guardant with the contempt proceedings. Comer, however, said helium was not instantly dropping the charges, which would transportation the menace of a important good and adjacent incarceration if passed by the House and successfully prosecuted by the Department of Justice.

“We don’t person thing successful writing,” Comer told reporters, adding that helium was unfastened to accepting the Clintons’ connection but “it depends connected what they say.”

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GOP leaders labour for enactment up of cardinal trial ballot connected ending partial authorities shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson’s quality to transportation retired Trump’s “play call” for backing the authorities volition beryllium enactment to the trial Tuesday arsenic the House holds a procedural ballot connected a measure to extremity the partial shutdown.

Johnson volition request near-unanimous enactment from his Republican league to proceed. He tin spend to suffer lone 1 Republican connected party-line votes with cleanable attendance, but immoderate lawmakers are threatening to vessel the effort if their priorities are not included. Trump weighed successful with a societal media post, telling them “There tin beryllium NO CHANGES astatine this time.”

The measurement would extremity the partial authorities shutdown that began Saturday, backing astir of the national authorities done Sept. 30 and the Department of Homeland Security for 2 weeks arsenic lawmakers negociate imaginable changes for the bureau that enforces the nation’s migration laws — United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, oregon ICE.

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