Sarah Ferris
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@CNN Capitol Hill reporter. Twin mom. Fifth-generation farm girl.
The District
Joined September 2010
Even now, Sanders still makes his case regularly to squeamish Dem colleagues. He shows up at Dem lunches (he normally doesn't) and beings polling to prove that people are behind them AOC meanwhile strategically keeping Schumer '28 primary on table Their influence is clear
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How Bernie & AOC helped prime Dems for the shutdown fight > Massive rallies helped party show "signs of life", while more Dems privately clamored to join them on stage and copied messaging style @ericbradner @AnnieGrayerCNN
https://t.co/j4kLhyzOJ1
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In March, six days after Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and nine of his colleagues voted with Republicans to keep the government open, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria...
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Republicans are opposed to the Dem plan (and have blocked it seven times in Senate) — so at what point will Ds make a new counteroffer to lay out their demands to try to end shutdown? Jeffries: “There has to be a willingness amongst Republicans to actually have a conversation.”
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"I don’t think I could live with myself if I did not do this,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills tells @NBCNews as she launches her Senate run. At 77, she acknowledged “age is a consideration,” but said she doesn’t plan to serve more than one term.
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Mills, who is 77 years old, told NBC News she doesn't plan to serve more than one term and cast herself as the Democrat best positioned to defeat GOP Sen. Susan Collins.
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New: STEPHEN MILLER has emerged as the key force behind efforts to expand Trump’s authority, from sending troops into cities, accelerating deportations to even managing lethal strikes at sea Inside his vast influence w @priscialva @ZcohenCNN @sarahnferris
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In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Departm...
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Topline numbers for RIF actions taken today, via OMB official's declaration filed in court this evening:
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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A White House official tells me notices of mass layoffs have begun going out to federal workers, and that the number of government employees being fired "will be substantial"
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@AnnieGrayerCNN And also, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis called out MTG for “not knowing math” after MTG blasted her own party for controlling all of government, without mentioning the Senate needs 7 Ds to support any funding bill, per source. Not clear if MTG was on the call.
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Johnson stressed today there will be NO separate vote on military pay. Rs will keep all pressure on Dems, despite missed paycheck for troops next week Message was "stay the course" and most members were on board, sources tell @AnnieGrayerCNN & me https://t.co/ffh750OwCg
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The government has been shut down for more than a week, and Congress still appears deadlocked on a funding plan.
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This has been echoed by a number of Senate Dems — that they feel emboldened to dig in. “On the contrary, far from there being pressured to back down, the American people are increasingly on our side,” Blumenthal said when I asked him if his constituents want him to back clean CR
New - Dems are ready to hang on *weeks* longer in shutdown fight In private meetings, anxiety is spiking over missed US troops pay next week. But no Dems are waffling on strategy and prepared to outlast Rs "Shockingly everyone is in agreement" https://t.co/ldeeISMoW2
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@AnnieGrayerCNN On missed troop paychecks, Congress has NEVER let this happen in modern times (with exception of Coast Guard). Every other shutdown in 95, 13, 18, Pentagon paychecks were guaranteed Some Dems worried party isn’t ready for how much this will hurt. But they insist ACA matters too
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What’s really at the core of today’s teachers unions?
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One hang-up: Dems are worried people are not feeling the bite of rising premiums yet. They say notices should be going out any day now. Gallego tells @AnnieGrayerCNN: “We’re waiting to hear why [notices] haven’t gone out” One House Dem tells me: “No one is feeling the pain”
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New - Dems are ready to hang on *weeks* longer in shutdown fight In private meetings, anxiety is spiking over missed US troops pay next week. But no Dems are waffling on strategy and prepared to outlast Rs "Shockingly everyone is in agreement" https://t.co/ldeeISMoW2
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Congressional Democrats are privately preparing to hold their position in the shutdown standoff for several more weeks if Republicans do not agree to their health care demands – and not even a missed...
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Speaker Johnson crashes Kelly and Gallego gaggle. Says he’ll swear in Grijalva when they reopen the government Kelly asking why Fine and Petronis got sworn in on pro forma, Johnson says it has to do with being on recess. Johnson: “this has nothing to do with Epstein”
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Louisiana Republican Congressman Mike Johnson will be on live on @cspan tomorrow morning taking viewer calls for the first time as the 56th Speaker of the House.
THURS| House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA, @SpeakerJohnson) discusses Day 9 of the government shutdown. Watch live at 8:30am ET!
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Who knew they had common grounds? No kings, but down for what? Happy Dork Cult Protest Day
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Texas Dem Rep. Marc Veasey looking to shut down rumors he's retiring from House in ‘26: “Let me shut this down right now: I absolutely intend on running for reelection. Any suggestion otherwise is a flat-out lie." Veasey hasn't said which seat and is waiting to see final maps.
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‘I don’t know how I’m going to feed my kids’: Shutdown hits federal contractors hard via @MattEganCNN
https://t.co/pdL8h9pAD1
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Unlike federal employees, contractors typically don’t receive backpay when the government reopens from a shutdown. Low-wage service workers, including cleaners, janitors, security guards, cafeteria...
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Shutdown Day 7: Jeffries has a posterboard prop of a Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweet calling on GOP to take action on health care premiums
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At today's presser, Johnson says both he AND Trump support backpay “I hope that furloughed workers receive backpay, of course... the president believes that as well. He doesn't want people to go without pay. That’s why he pleaded with Chuck Schumer to do the right thing.”
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Hey y’all, I actually did it. My book Self Design: A Memoir from Brooklyn to Silicon Valley is out now. It’s real, it’s personal, and the whole story’s in there. If you ever rooted for me (or just nosy), go grab a copy so I can stop texting people about it.😂
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