Government faces midnight shutdown deadline as Senate plans votes

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer debate government funding on Senate floor on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. Senate TV Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer got into a rare direct back-and-forth on the Senate floor ahead of the shutdown deadline. “Democrats have a choice to make. They can

Feds find more SIM cards in N.J. after disrupting network last week

Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations discovered an additional 200,000 SIM cards at a location in New Jersey, law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News.  This follows last week’s discovery by U.S. Secret Service of a sprawling telecommunications network in the New York Tri-State area that investigators said could potentially have caused a serious disruption

Trump Says a Lot of Federal Workers Could Be Laid Off If Government Shutdown Hits

President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Sept. 29, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump said on Sept. 30 that “a lot” of federal workers could lose their jobs if Democrats and Republicans fail to reach a deal on a stopgap funding bill, setting the stage for the government’s first