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1 House To Start Voting On Funding Resolution For Government As Soon As This Afternoon
The Senate approved a funding bill in a 60-40 vote on Monday that would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Speaker Mike Johnson told members to start returning quickly because of travel delays affecting airports across the country, but neither the House nor Senate was in session yesterday for the Veterans Day holiday. House Republicans are confident the bill will pass in the lower chamber, and President Trump is expected to sign the legislation, which would officially end the shutdown. A provision hidden in the Senate funding bill passed Monday night would let senators sue the federal government for potentially millions of dollars if their data is obtained without them being notified. The House Rules Committee held a lengthy meeting last night ahead of today's floor vote on the funding package to reopen the government.
2 Supreme Court Extends Its Stay On Order Requiring Full November SNAP Benefits
The Supreme Court has extended a stay that blocks a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to immediately pay full SNAP benefits for November. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who granted the original stay on Friday, was the only justice who disagreed with extending it. The decision keeps things as they are while Congress works to end the government shutdown and fully fund SNAP for the year. The court did not explain why it made this choice.
3 Kansas County Will Pay Small-Town Newspaper $3-Million Due To 2023 Raid
Marion County, Kansas will pay just over $3 million and apologize for a law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper in August of 2023. The Marion County Record, its publisher Eric Meyer, and several others filed five federal lawsuits after police raided the newspaper office and the homes of Meyer and a former city council member, and Sheriff Jeff Soyez has issued an apology mentioning Meyer and his late mother Joan Meyer by name. The raid happened after a dispute between the newspaper and a local restaurant owner who accused the paper of invading her privacy. Meyer's mother, who co-owned the newspaper and lived with him, died of a heart attack the day after the raid, which he blamed on the stress of the raid, which sparked a national debate about press freedom in the town of about 1,900 people. Meyer hopes the size of the payment will discourage similar actions against news organizations in the future.