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that would extend government funding until after the mid-term elections, sending the package to the Senate on a vote of 220 to 205.
“Republican Majority Leader John Thunes says the Senate will act before leaving town for”
the August recess, here's in Pierre's Eric McDaniel.
Republicans want to avoid a third government shutdown, this one coming just ahead of the
midterm elections. The Democrats have forced two record-breaking shutdown since President Trump began a second term, the first over federal subsidies for health insurance plans and the second over funding for the president's immigration enforcement agenda. After federal personnel killed Americans in Minnesota earlier this year.
Leader Thunes says so work on a different version of the funding extension in order to attract needed support from Senate Democrats. If that doesn't pan out he has a plan to pass a funding extension on a party line vote, avoiding the chambers typical 60 vote threshold using a parliamentary quirk known as reconciliation. Eric McDaniel and Pierre-Newton's Washington.
The event's Secretary Pete Hegg-Seth was on Capitol Hill Tuesday asking Congress for tens of billions of dollars to fund the Iran war. It was the first public hearing on the war since the ceasefire collapsed. Here's in Pierre's Quill Lawrence. Straight from their opening statements, I have to say that neither General Kane nor Secretary
Hegg-Seth mentioned Iran at all in their opening. And Secretary Hegg-Seth, I didn't hear him mention the casualties over the weekend. The senators who opened the hearing and General Kane did offer their condolences. When the questions started, they were pretty bluntly dodged by the Secretary and even the Chairman.
Democrats, Patty Murray, fast Hegg-Seth about President Trump's proposed toll on traffic through the street of Hormuz asking who talked to President out of it and Hegg-Seth's answer was that the U.S. is blocking Iran's ports.
“Murray quoted Hegg-Seth himself saying, "If you must go that Iran's missiles were destroyed,"”
Hegg-Seth answers to that was that Iran is at its weakest point in 47 years. So they were fairly well-talking past each other.
Hegg-Seth's military says it has identified the remains of a third service member killed
in Friday's attack on a base in Jordan. The confirmation brings a death toll to 18 since he Iran war began. Iran's interior minister has been meeting with Pakistan's military chief, according to State Ron Rani and Media's impures Diajadeed reports. Pakistani officials, led by the Army Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Russell Manir, have been
mediating between the sides, ever since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran in late February. Pakistan mediated the first ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran on April 8, then in mid-June, the country mediated a memorandum of understanding. It was meant to lead to negotiations for a comprehensive peace deal.
But earlier this month, Iran targeted three ships in the street of Hormuz. It said they had violated the understanding which Iran interprets as giving it control over the vital waterway. Clashes have been escalating since. Pakistani officials have called on both sides to adhere to the memorandum.
Diajadeed and Pyannus. And this is MPR news.
“Arizona voters have set up a couple of key house braces heading into the November mid-Termy”
elections, and Tuesday's primary voters advance President Trump's preferred nominees in Arizona's six congressional district GOP voters stuck with incumbent Juan Ciscomani. He will face Democrat Joanna Mendoza this fall.
Former NFL Playskicker, Jay Fili, won the GOP nomination in Arizona's first congressional
district. The Democratic race remains too close to call. Both braces are being closely watched as key to Democratic efforts to regain control of the house. Ottawa says there will be no joint ceremony for the opening of the Gordy Hal Bridge next
week. Dan Carpenshuck reports that Canadian officials say it would no longer be appropriate given the current trade tensions. Rather than opening with pomp and a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the long-delayed Gordy Hal Bridge between Windsor and Detroit will just open.
A statement from Ottawa said in light of the trade action threatened by the U.S. earlier this week. It would be inappropriate to proceed with a celebratory event between the two countries. The statement comes a day after President Donald Trump announced an additional 50% tariff on a range of Canadian goods to take effect in less than 30 days.
Canada says it remains committed to opening the bridge in the milestone will be celebrated among Canadians on Friday. A spokesperson in Ottawa says the decision not to proceed in a joint celebration has not impacted the revenue-sharing deal for the bridge. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpenshuck in Toronto.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadian leaders remain united but that he has spoken a President Trump and the two have agreed to speed up negotiations over the next few weeks. This is NPR News. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note the 16-year-old left in the family's garage.
He told me he was going to make me cry. Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later he was shot and killed there. Listen to "We keep us safe" on the embedded podcast from NPR.
