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Join Fox News for access to this content Plus, your account will give you exclusive access to select articles and other premium content for free. Enter your email address[続行]By pressing , you agree to Fox News’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, including notice of financial incentives. Please enter a valid email address. Need help? Click here. Just five days before Christmas, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would appoint Brian Birch, an outspoken conservative and Catholic poll director, to be the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. The Vatican, also known as the “Holy See,” is the center of the…

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday brushed off reporters’ questions about President Biden’s absence from public appearances as a partial shutdown looms and the battle for government funding continues. Jean-Pierre declined to answer why the president doesn’t tell the American people about his position, instead pointing to Republicans like President-elect Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Laminated) and Elon Musk. accused their “billionaire friends.” Because of the chaos at the Capitol. “Why hasn’t President Biden said anything publicly about this? Don’t the American people deserve to know why millions of federal workers were able to go on this furlough…

The House passed a bill Friday to avert a partial government shutdown, hours before a midnight federal funding deadline. The bill required approval by two-thirds of the chamber, but passed by an overwhelming vote of 366 to 34. All Democrats voted in favor of the bill, except for Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who voted “yes.”Lawmakers were scrambling to find a way forward after the original bill was vetoed by President-elect Trump and his allies on Wednesday, and a later Trump-approved bill died in the full House on Thursday. .Daniel Penny selected by House Republicans as Congressional Gold Medal nominee Johnson…

FOX 1st: Two Senate Republicans are taking the lead on ensuring military personnel are paid during an expected partial government shutdown as Congress ticks closer to Saturday’s midnight deadline. . Three Senate officials told Fox News Digital that Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has proposed a bill that would ensure all military services and the Coast Guard are paid in the event of a partial government shutdown. He admitted that he is leading the “hotline” effort. The hotline is typically a procedure used by senators to pass procedural motions and relatively uncontroversial measures. This practice often results in bills and motions…

House Republican negotiators reached a tentative deal late Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown, people told Fox News Digital.Two people familiar with the discussions told Fox News Digital that the deal includes a short-term extension of this year’s federal funding levels, disaster relief funds and agricultural aid for farmers, but is divided into three separate parts. It is said that it is based on the bill.That includes an agreement to tackle the debt limit next year as part of a major conservative policy overhaul planned by Republicans through a process called “reconciliation.”The new strategy was announced after President-elect Trump…

President-elect Donald Trump filed a court brief late Thursday supporting legal efforts in Texas and Missouri to “immediately” halt the Biden administration’s sale of border wall materials, calling the act “a potential crime.” “There is,” he said. Earlier this week, Texas and Missouri filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas asking for a status conference to determine whether the government is violating the court’s permanent injunction from earlier this year. The injunction prohibited the Biden administration from using money mandated for wall construction for any other purpose. ‘Pattern of neglect’: Red states seek…

The White House has announced that President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month for a public meeting with Pope Francis in Vatican City before the end of his term.Biden accepted an invitation to visit Vatican City in a phone conversation with Pope Francis on Thursday, the White House said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Thursday that Biden will meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Italian President Sergio Mattarella during the trip. The four-day visit is scheduled for the second week of January, and a meeting between Biden and Pope Francis is expected to take…

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., have backed the original stopgap spending package, which Republicans rescinded under pressure from billionaire Elon. He made it clear that he only intended to move forward with the bill. Mr. Musk and President-elect Trump.Murray said he will be in Washington, D.C., during the partial government shutdown and the Christmas holidays if Republicans do not return to the original short-term spending bill announced earlier this week and then scrapped after public opposition from Musk and others. He said he was prepared to stay. That provision.”We…

Exclusive: Conservative legal watchdog group files brief in Kentucky court asking judge not to approve consent decree forged by Attorney General Merrick Garland and the City of Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky is scheduled to be submitted. Breonna Taylor’s controversial death in 2020.The Oversight Project will place its court brief on the docket Friday morning in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky as the judge prepares a timeline for issuing a ruling on triggering the agreement.Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell said the consent decree includes “a laundry list of BLM-type standards that have been discussed…

Join Fox News for access to this content Plus, your account will give you exclusive access to select articles and other premium content for free. Enter your email address[続行]By pressing , you agree to Fox News’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, including notice of financial incentives. Please enter a valid email address. Need help? Click here. Pete Buttigieg’s appearance on New Hampshire talk radio on Friday morning continues speculation that President Biden’s transportation secretary is considering another run for president in 2028.Buttigieg, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who is seen as a strong contender for the next nomination, has…