September 26th, 2024.

Today President Joe Biden signed the continuing resolution Congress passed yesterday

to fund the government until December 20th.

The measure has none of the poison pills Trump and MAGA Republicans wanted, but it does add $231 million to the

budget for the Secret Service to enhance its ability to protect presidential candidates. This is a good outcome for the

country. There will be no shutdown because finally at the end of the day our

Republican colleagues in the House decided to work with us, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat of New York, said.

Congress will recess tomorrow as members head back home to campaign.

Members will not return to Washington, D.C.

until after the November 5th election.

Trump demanded that Republicans shut down the government unless the continuing

resolution contained a measure requiring proof of citizenship to register to

vote. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections, and the measure was widely

seen as an attempt to suppress voting.

Trump was unable to command Republican loyalty on this issue, as he did earlier this year when he insisted Republican and power might have been behind his hastily announced press conference this afternoon

at Trump Tower in New York. A press conference best described as the September 10th presidential

debate 2.0.

Trump reiterated his vision of the United States as a hellscape.

He insisted that the nation's booming economy is actually hemorrhaging jobs, that the FBI statistics

showing crime falling are all lies, and that inflation, which has fallen close

enough to the target of 2% that the Fed recently began to lower interest

rates is at an all-time high.

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