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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) responded to the flux of rank-and-file Republicans expressing opposition to the party’s stopgap government spending deal, indicating a long week ahead for GOP leadership as it seeks to wrangle enough support within the conference to advance the must-pass legislation.

House Republicans have no plans to include Ukraine aid to their proposed stopgap spending bill making its way through the lower chamber even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to visit the country this week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on Monday.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin its October payments, worth up to $1,691, in Texas in 13 days.

Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced that she will not seek reelection in 2024 after having been diagnosed with the rare degenerative disorder progressive supranuclear palsy.

Factions of the House Republican Conference brokered a stopgap funding measure Sunday evening to fund the government beyond Sept. 30.

A deal reached by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden ahead of the debt ceiling deadline in May is coming back to haunt him as Republicans quarrel over appropriations bills and grapple with a looming government shutdown.

The Biden administration secured the release of seven Americans imprisoned in Iran on Monday in exchange for President Joe Biden granting clemency to five Iranians held in the United States and unfreezing $6 billion of Iran's money.

Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) will not seek reelection in 2024 following a new diagnosis.

Hunter Biden sued the IRS on Monday, alleging the agents who were investigating him told Congress and the media about his private tax returns.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has long been the Left's foremost critic of "dark money," which he's said "corrupts" politics and poses a "threat to democracy."