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The Senate failed for a 13th time to advance a GOP funding bill that would end the government shutdown, now on Day 28. Follow live updates here.
Barry Black first addressed the shutdown in his prayers earlier this month, but came across more urgently in his words Monday.
House Speaker Matt Hall called the Senate plan "fake" and "political" while touting his work with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to provide $4.5 million to food banks in the state.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek said he believes the "bare minimum" outcome Senate Democrats should accept to end the federal government shutdown is the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
The rebuke of Trump is largely symbolic, for now, since the House isn't allowing votes on measures challenging Trump's tariffs until at least next year.
Congressional Republicans are so loathe to vote against President Donald Trump that it’s striking when they actually do.