CITYSHOTS: A look at Washington D.C. as shutdown looms

Record ID: 1891060

  • Title: CITYSHOTS: A look at Washington D.C. as shutdown looms
  • Date: 30th October 2024
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (OCTOBER 24, 2024) (REUTERS) VARIOUS VIEWS OF LINCOLN MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON MONUMENT, AND CAPITOL TOGETHER WITH LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TO THE RIGHT OF CAPITOL VARIOUS OF CAPITOL, SEAT OF UNITED STATES CONGRESS, AND FENCING SURROUNDING IT WHILE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION PLATFORM IS BEING BUILT VARIOUS OF WHITE HOUSE AND FENCING SURROUNDING IT AS STAGE IS B
  • Embargoed: 13th November 2024 09:58
  • Keywords: CAPITOL CITY CITYSHOTS DC LINCOLN MEMORIAL SHOTS SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON MONUMENT WHITE HOUSE
  • Location: Washington, D.C. USA
  • City: Washington, D.C. USA
  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001561529102024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:The U.S. Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday (20 December), hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by President-elect Donald Trump to use the measure to lift the nation's debt ceiling.
    Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was trying to plot a course that could pass both his chamber, with narrow Republican control, and the Democratic-majority Senate, as a midnight Friday (0500 GMT Saturday) funding deadline loomed.
    "We have a plan," Johnson told reporters at the Capitol on Friday. "We're expecting votes this morning."
    Conservative Republicans on Thursday rejected Trump's demand to lift the debt limit, which could add trillions more to the government's $36 trillion in debt.
    Trump, who takes office in one month, overnight ratcheted up his rhetoric, calling for a five-year suspension of the U.S. debt ceiling even after members of his party's right flank balked at an earlier two-year extension.
    "Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling. Without this, we should never make a deal," Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform shortly after 1 a.m.
    An earlier bipartisan deal was scuttled after Trump and his ally Elon Musk, the world's richest person, came out against it on Wednesday. A hastily revised alternative backed by Trump then failed by a vote of 174-235 Thursday night.
    (Production: Julio-Cesar Chavez)
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