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The White House hid Biden’s decline, per WSJ, by giving controlled access, scripting most moments and placing senior advisers in roles that Biden would have otherwise occupied

President Joe Biden has chosen to remain out of the public eye during what could become one of the final domestic crises of his presidency, as the White House and congressional Democrats frame the impending government shutdown as a Republican problem to solve. The crisis escalated Wednesday after President-elect Donald
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If Congress fails to act and approve the spending bill by Saturday, the US government will run out of funds to maintain operations

Republicans in Congress met on Thursday to strategize after President-elect Donald Trump rejected a bipartisan agreement to prevent a partial government shutdown and insisted on abolishing the federal debt ceiling. Without a deal passing both the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democrat-controlled Senate, the U.S. government faces a
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