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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11h

Is the White House disrespecting Sen. Susan Collins, the GOP appropriations chair?

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h

Democratic Senate candidate in Maine responds to WH defying Collins on RIFs

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 15h

Earlier this afternoon, Maine Governor Janet Mills posted this tweet announcing a Senate run. It has since been deleted. Here’s a screenshot of what was removed from the @ JanetMillsforME X account.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 18h

New from Susan Collins: “I strongly oppose OMB Director Russ Vought’s attempt to permanently lay off federal workers who have been furloughed due to a completely unnecessary government shutdown caused by Senator Schumer.”

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19h

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19h

Trump administration says federal worker layoffs 'have begun' amid government shutdown

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Trump administration begins 'substantial' federal worker layoffs amid government shutdown

Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy and Health and Human Services, among others, according to an administration official.

www.nbcnews.com

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19h

Speaker Johnson just declared the House will remain in recess all next week. This will mark a full month off; the chamber has not been in session since September 19.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23h

The Senate voted 77-20 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last night, before leaving town until Tuesday, Oct. 14. Still no deal to break the government funding impasse. The House hasn't been in session since Sept. 19. Shutdown continues.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23h

New Reuters/Ipsos poll on the shutdown: www.reuters.com/world/us/who...

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks for watching!

Cymurai @wanderthedesert.bsky.social · 1d

Sahil is the best one covering the congress imho

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Will Senate Republicans nuke the legislative filibuster to end the government shutdown?

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jeffsworldshow.bsky.social @jeffsworldshow.bsky.social · 1d

@sahilkapur.bsky.social is today's Explainer-in-Chief. ThankYaSir!

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Will Senate Republicans nuke the legislative filibuster to end the government shutdown?

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Will Senate Republicans nuke the legislative filibuster to end the government shutdown?

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Emboldened Democrats dig in on health care demands in shutdown fight

Senate Dem comms directors got a briefing and poll memo y'day. The pollster's advice? That Republicans are losing this battle, health care demands are popular, and stay the course.

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Emboldened Democrats dig in on health care demands in shutdown fight

Energized by public opinion, Democrats are refusing to budge on their demands to extend expiring Obamacare tax credits, frustrating Republican leaders as the shutdown continues.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

DAY 9 of the government shutdown.

The House is still out of session.

Another failed Senate vote on both the competing Democratic and Republican bills to fund the government.

Zero senators have switched votes since before the shutdown.

GOP bill remains five votes short.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

GOP Sen. John Kennedy tells me there is absolutely no way Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster to reopen the government: “That's not even within the realm of possibility.”

“You'd have to be smoking wizard weed to vote for that,” he says. “Dreamweaver, man. That ain't passing.”

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Sen. Susan Collins tells me Republican leaders should promise to hold a vote on extending ACA funding to try an end the shutdown — an olive branch to Democrats.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson: "The health care issues were always going to be something discussed and deliberated and contemplated and debated in October and November. It always was... They're trying to pretend that a Dec. 31 policy issue has something to do with the fiscal cliff that we faced on Sept. 30."

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson says Republicans were always planning to get to health care, going after Democrats' position in the shutdown: "They're trying to make this about health care. It's not. It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to health care. We always were going to. They're lying to you."

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

FBI director gets a label slapped by X on this post saying he delivered on transparency

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

Political Dunk of the Day

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason Democrats are eager to talk about health care: they win when this is a top issue for voters

LEFT: 2018 exit polls (D+52)
RIGHT: 2020 exit polls (D+25)

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

Ruben @gallego.senate.gov, D-Ariz., says GOP senators tell him they want a health care deal. “The biggest sticking point now that I’m hearing from them is like, even if we get something, [Mike] Johnson is just going to tank it. So why? Why would we move if Johnson is going to tank it?”

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, tells me he’s NOT switching his position and will continue to vote for the Republican CR (and the Dem CR). Wants the government reopened and the ACA subsidies extended.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d

Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be.”

“I serve in Congress. We’re a separate branch of the government, and I’m not elected by the president.”

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Once a loyal foot soldier for Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene is increasingly bucking her party

From the Gaza war to the Epstein files to the government shutdown, the MAGA-aligned congresswoman has grown critical of her fellow Republicans.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d

In which former Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., asks Amy McGrath not to run for Kentucky's Senate seat again. In 2020, McGrath raised nearly $100 million and lost to Mitch McConnell by nearly 20 points.

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