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President Joe Biden is wrangling with a dysfunctional Congress.

The US may get a one-week shutdown reprieve, but chaos in Congress continues

This is no way to run a country. For the fourth time this financial year, the US Congress appears likely to avert a government shutdown by passing a stopgap funding measure.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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The grandstanding over the debt ceiling says a lot about the state of US politics and the challenges Joe Biden faces in trying to implement his agenda.

It’s five to midnight, again: US debt drama isn’t good for America, or the rest of us

The US government will run out of money on Saturday unless a last-minute deal on the debt ceiling is struck. It says a lot about the state of US politics and the challenges Joe Biden faces in trying to implement his agenda.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump says he is prepared to use his veto power to push ahead with funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border.

Republican senators defy Trump, reject national emergency declaration

Donald Trump will be forced to issue his first presidential veto, after 12 Republican senators voted to reject his declaration of a national border emergency.

  • Matthew Knott
President Donald Trump declares a national emergency on Friday.

'Walls work': Trump declares national emergency to build border wall

President Donald Trump plans to siphon billions of dollars from federal military construction and counter-drug efforts to fund his promised border wall.

  • Alan Fram
President Donald Trump, pictured on Friday declaring a national emergency, groused about signing the bipartisan deal.

'Off the rails': Inside Trump's attempt to claim victory, almost sinking border wall deal

"Zero chance you could spin this as a win for Republicans," one Republican congressman said, adding that the bipartisan deal was "a total capitulation" and "a waste of three weeks".

  • Robert Costa and Rachael Bade
President Donald Trump is likely to sign the bipartisan border deal despite not being happy with it.

Trump likely to grudgingly sign border deal to avoid another shutdown

Senior congressional Republicans, showing little appetite for another shutdown after being heavily criticised for the previous one, urged Trump to support the new agreement.

  • Matthew Knott
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Children from Anapra, Mexico, climb a section of the new border wall recently built in New Mexico.

Top US lawmakers agree on border funding averting shutdown

US congressional negotiators say an "agreement in principle" has been reached on border security funding, potentially averting another federal shutdown.

Donald Trump talks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House.

Another US government shutdown deadline looms

The White House has not ruled out another federal government shutdown even if it finds money for Trump's border wall elsewhere.

  • Jonathan Lemire and Alan Fram
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk towards Marine One at the start of the weekend.

Facing dropping popularity, Trump readies for State of Union

When US President delivers his annual State of the Union address this week, a Democrat will be seated at the rostrum over his shoulder for the first time.

  • Philip Rucker & Josh Dawsey and Toluse Olorunnipa
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said there would be no border wall money in the bipartisan negotiations.

Pelosi says there will be no wall money in US border deal talks

The House Speaker said if Republicans have suggestions about adding more ports of entry or technologies, those kinds of things would be negotiable.

  • Amanda Becker

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