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Congress Approves Spending Extension, Ending Shutdown Crisis

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Carl Hulse and Catie Edmondson
The Senate passed the measure and sent it to President Biden’s desk, shortly after the midnight deadline for funding to lapse.

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Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol on Friday, after the House passed a measure to avert a shutdown. The legislative tumult of the past few days has fueled questions about his ability to continue as speaker next year.

G.O.P. Spending Hawks Defy Trump on the Debt Limit, Previewing More Clashes

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Catie Edmondson and Andrew Duehren
President-elect Donald J. Trump is known for his tight grip on members of his party, but the rare rejection of his demand to suspend the debt limit reflected a disconnect that could plague his policy agenda.

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Representative Chip Roy of Texas was one of 38 House Republicans who defied President-elect Donald J. Trump’s demand to lift the debt ceiling.

Biden Administration Weighs Putting Up Roadblocks to Trump’s Deportation Campaign

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Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The administration may extend protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose legal status is set to expire near the start of the Trump administration.

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A family of refugees from Sudan arriving in Connecticut last year. People from the war-torn country are eligible for a program that allows them to live and work legally in the United States.

The Shutdown Crisis Leads to Questions About Who Is in Charge

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Andrew Ross Sorkin， Ravi Mattu， Bernhard Warner， Sarah Kessler， Michael J. de la Merced and Lauren Hirsch
Donald Trump has yet to take office but the president-elect and Elon Musk are already influencing policy, putting the federal government hours away from a shut down.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are changing policy even before the president-elect takes office next month.

Trump Tariffs? Europe Braces but Has No Clear Strategy

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Jim Tankersley， Jenny Gross， Liz Alderman and Melissa Eddy
The incoming president promised “tariffs all the way” unless Europe bought more U.S. oil and gas. European officials have no clear strategy for avoiding a trade war.

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Newly imported cars in Wilmington, Calif. In 2023, the United States and the European Union traded more than $1.5 trillion in goods and services.

Zelensky Raises Prospect of European Peacekeepers in Ukraine

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Jenny Gross and Constant Méheut
But many European leaders say that with no sign that Russia is interested in peace, it is too early to discuss the presence of peacekeeping forces.

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A destroyed Ukrainian tank hit by a Russian drone last May remained in pieces alongside the road between villages not far from the front line in the Kharkiv region, in northern Ukraine, this month.

Dozens of House Republicans Defy Trump’s Orders to Support Spending Bill

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Michael D. Shear
Thirty-eight Republican lawmakers resisted the president-elect’s command to support a spending and debt deal, showing that at least some of his followers are willing to buck his leadership in the right circumstances.

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Republican resistance to the spending and debt deal backed by President-elect Donald J. Trump came from conservatives who would normally align themselves with his philosophy.
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