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In today's issue:
• Senate tees up next funding votes
• Johnson says ‘no’ to Jeffries debate challenge
• Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal
• Illinois sues Trump over deployment
• Israel, Hamas meet to negotiate peace plan
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again and hope for a different outcome:
The Senate is back in town today with another chance teed up to end the government shutdown. Government funding votes are lined up for this afternoon, but no one expects a different outcome from last week.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told House lawmakers to stay home for another week, knowin