🗞️Government shutdown prevented

...plus more problems at Columbia University and Trump speaks with Putin

March 14, 2025

March 14th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

Senate votes to avoid government shutdown

The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through September, avoiding a government shutdown only hours before funding w…

thehill.com/homenews/senate/5196169-senate-passes-funding-bill-shutdown

  • Enough Senate Democrats have voted for the Republican led funding bill and it has officially passed, the government will now be funded for rest of the fiscal year and a shutdown was averted

  • An American Airlines plane engine caught fire at Denver International Airport after the aircraft made an emergency landing there, passengers were forced to exit the pane onto the aircraft’s wing as smoke surrounded the plane

  • President Trump announced on social media today that he had "very good and productive" discussions with Putin yesterday and there is a "very good chance" the war will end

  • Columbia University has taken action by suspending and expelling some students who participated in a protest over the Israel-Hamas war last spring and ended up occupying a school building

  • Another incident occurred in which Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian student who had taken part in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last spring and had overstayed her student visa

  • The U.S. Postal Service plans to cut 10,000 jobs over the next month and slash billions from the USPS budget

  • The Senate has passed the HALT Fentanyl Act to permanently classify fentanyl as a Schedule 1 drug and ensure law enforcement has the tools they need to stop its flow into the U.S.

  • The Department of Government Efficiency has terminated over 200,000 government credit cards linked to over a dozen government agencies after an audit showed they were either unused or unneeded

  • Homes in the U.S. have been sitting on the market for longer… 66 days on average now, 5 days more than at this time last year, per Fortune

  • DOW up 1.65% / S&P up 2.13%

  • Mark Carney has officially been sworn in as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister, replacing Justin Trudeau

  • Hamas said today they agreed to release Israeli-American hostage, Edan Alexander, and return the bodies of four other American-Israeli hostages currently being held in Gaza

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