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Marine vet takes aim at Trump, Musk in video launch for key swing House seat
A former Marine Corps officer who deployed in the Iraq War and later served at the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration under former President Barack Obama is the first major candidate to jump into the high-profile campaign for an open congressional seat in swing state New Hampshire.
Democrat Maura Sullivan, in an interview with Fox News, said «our country clearly needs a new generation of leadership, period. And the Democratic Party needs new leadership, and I’m running to be one of those leaders.»
Sullivan said in a statement announcing her candidacy in the race to succeed four-term Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas, «I am stepping up to serve because the issues we are facing aren’t Democrat or Republican issues, they’re American issues.»
Pappas last week launched a campaign to succeed longtime Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who recently said she would retire at the end of next year rather than bid for a fourth six-year term representing New Hampshire in the Senate.
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Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., announces his bid to succeed retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a fellow Democrat, on April 3, 2025, in Manchester, N.H. ( AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
His seat, New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, covers the eastern half of the northern New England state, and Republicans are aiming to flip it from blue to red in next year’s midterm elections. The race is expected to be expensive and competitive.
This is Sullivan’s second bid for Congress in the district. She came in second to Pappas in a crowded 11-candidate Democrat primary in 2018, when the congressman first won the office.
Sullivan, a New Hampshire Democratic Party vice chair, took aim at President Donald Trump and his most visible White House adviser in a campaign launch video she posted on social media.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN TAKES AIM AT TRUMP, MUSK IN SENATE CAMPAIGN LAUNCH
«I saw too many of my fellow Marines give their lives for this country to just sit by and watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk tear it down,» Sullivan said in a video shared on X. «They’re driving up costs for New Hampshire families, making it even more difficult to own a home and pay the bills. And that’s why I’m running for Congress, to protect the promise of America and ensure a better future for our kids.»
Sullivan, in her Fox News Digital interview, said that «I’m hearing from folks all around New Hampshire that they’re worried, they’re scared, they’re frustrated, and I am too.»
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Maura Sullivan, left, meets with Democratic Party officials and activists after announcing her candidacy for the U.S. House in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District on April 10, 2025, in Manchester, N.H. (Maura Sullivan campaign)
While Sullivan is the first major candidate to enter the race, she likely won’t be the last.
Former state Sen. Tom Sherman, a physician and the 2022 Democrat gubernatorial nominee in New Hampshire, told Fox News he’s «definitely interested» in a potential bid for Congress and said he is «keeping my options open.»
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Also mulling a run is former state Sen. John Morgan, a cybersecurity executive who told Fox News he’s «kicking the tires» on a possible congressional campaign.
«New Hampshire is part of my heart and soul,» Morgan said, adding that «it’s really a time that calls for bold leadership.»
Democrat state Sen. Rebecca Perkins Kwoka is also thought to be a possible contender for the nomination.
In the race for the Republican nomination, former state senator and former executive councilor Russell Prescott, the 2024 nominee who lost to Pappas, is mulling another run for Congress.
Democrat Maura Sullivan announces her candidacy for the U.S. House in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District in a campaign launch video on April 10, 2025. (Maura Sullivan campaign)
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So are Hollie Noveletsky, Joe Kelly Levasseur and Chris Bright, who came in second, third and fourth, respectively, behind Prescott in the 2024 GOP primary in the district.
State Attorney General John Formella is also thought to be a possible contender for the GOP nomination.
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Republican and Democratic congressional leaders left a meeting with President Donald Trump with no deal to avert a government shutdown as the deadline fast approaches.
Leaders met with Trump on Monday for roughly an hour to negotiate a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown, but it appeared neither side was willing to budge from their position.
Vice President JD Vance said after the meeting, «I think we’re headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing. I hope they change their mind.»
«If you look at the original they did with this negotiation, it was a $1.5 trillion spending package, basically saying the American people want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care, while Americans are struggling to pay their health care bills,» Vance said. «That was their initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd.»
DEMS NOT BUDGING ON GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DEMANDS AHEAD OF HIGH-STAKES TRUMP MEETING, JEFFRIES SUGGESTS
Vice President JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought spoke to reporters after congressional leaders met with President Donald Trump on Sept. 29, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Democrats, however, have pushed back on assertions that they’re looking to salvage healthcare for anyone but the American people.
«There was a frank and direct discussion with the President of the United States and Republican leaders. But significant and meaningful differences remain,» Jeffries said. «Democrats are fighting to protect the health care of the American people, and we are not going to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the health care of every day America, period.»
Congress has until midnight Oct. 1 to pass a short-term funding extension, or continuing resolution (CR), to avert a partial government shutdown. The House already passed a funding extension, but the bill was blocked in the Senate earlier this month.
Republicans and the White House want to move forward with their «clean,» short-term funding extension until Nov. 21, while Democrats have offered a counter-proposal that includes a permanent extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits and other wishlist items that are a bridge too far for the GOP.
Vance appeared alongside Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought in a show of Republican unity after the meeting, but made clear both sides are still far apart.
Thune, holding up a copy of the funding extension, panned Jeffries and Schumer’s accusation that the bill was partisan in nature.
Congressional Republicans argue that the House GOP’s is everything that Democrats pushed when they controlled the Senate: a «clean,» short-term extension to Nov. 21 without partisan policy riders or spending, save for millions in new spending for increased security for lawmakers.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, hold a news conference on the GOP reconciliation bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
«To me, this is purely a hostage-taking exercise on the part of the Democrats,» Thune said. «We are willing to sit down and work with them on some of the issues they want to talk about, whether it’s an extension of premium tax credits, with reforms, we’re happy to have that conversation. But as of right now, this is a hijacking.»
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries took questions after their remarks, but appeared slightly more optimistic than their GOP counterparts after the meeting concluded.
«I think for the first time, the president heard our objections and heard why we needed a bipartisan bill,» Schumer said. «Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input. That is never how we’ve done this before.»
Vance said he was «highly skeptical» that it was Trump’s first time hearing the issue and said there was a bipartisan path forward on healthcare – but panned Democrats’ push to include an extension of COVID-19 pandemic-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) extensions in the bill.
«We want to work across the aisle to make sure that people have access to good healthcare,» he said, but added, «We are not going to let Democrats shut down the government and take a hostage unless we give them everything that they want. That’s not how the people’s government has ever worked.»
The meeting in the Oval Office comes after Trump canceled a previously scheduled confab last week with just Schumer and Jeffries. At the time, the president railed against their demands on his social media platform Truth Social and contended that congressional Democrats were pushing «radical Left policies that nobody voted for» in their counter-CR.
President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Democrats’ demands center on an extension to expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, though their counter-proposal also included language to repeal the healthcare section of the GOP’s «big, beautiful bill» and a clawback of canceled NPR and PBS funding.
Senate Republicans have argued that Democrats’ desires are unserious, and Thune has publicly said that Republicans would be willing to have discussions on the ACA subsidies, which are set to sunset at the end of this year, after the government is funded.
Schumer insisted Democrats needed it addressed immediately, however, in a press conference back on Capitol Hill after the meeting.
«We think when they say later, they mean never. We have to do it now, first because of the timing issue and second, because now is the time we can get it done,» he said.
The White House is also leveraging the threat of mass firings should the government shut down that go beyond the standard furloughing of nonessential employees. Still, Schumer and Senate Democrats have not buckled.
The Senate is expected to vote again on the bill on Tuesday.
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La reunión entre Trump y los líderes demócratas terminó sin acuerdo para evitar el cierre del Gobierno
La reunión entre los líderes demócratas del Congreso y el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump finalizó este lunes sin que se alcanzara un entendimiento para tratar de evitar el cierre del Gobierno federal que se activaría a partir de este miércoles.
“Tenemos grandes diferencias en materia de salud y en su capacidad para revertir cualquier presupuesto que acordemos mediante rescisiones y embargos”, declaró a la prensa el líder de la minoría demócrata en el Senado, Chuck Schumer, al salir de la Oficina Oval de la Casa Blanca tras su reunión con el mandatario.
De acuerdo con los demócratas que asistieron a la reunión, se hizo ver a Trump “las consecuencias de lo que sucede en la atención médica al buscar recortes de seguros de salud”.
“Por su rostro, parecía que era la primera vez que escuchaba sobre este problema”, dijo Schumer a la prensa sobre la reacción del presidente durante el encuentro, en el que también estuvo el líder de la minoría demócrata en la Cámara de Representantes, Hakeem Jeffries, así como los líderes republicanos en la Cámara Alta y Baja, John Thune y Mike Johnson.
Por su parte, el vicepresidente estadounidense, J.D. Vance, dijo a medios al salir de la reunión: “Creo que nos encaminamos hacia un cierre porque los demócratas no harán lo correcto”.
En menos de dos días las expira el plazo para lograr un acuerdo de financiamiento para el Gobierno, y ambas partes insisten en señalar al opositor como responsable por no ceder.
Los demócratas exigen que se prorroguen los subsidios de la ley para el cuidado asequible de la salud (Obamacare) que expiran a final de año, así como la reversión de los recortes al programa Medicaid que resultaron de la gran ley de recortes presupuestarios y fiscales aprobada en julio pasado.
Sin embargo, los republicanos en el Congreso han dicho que aceptarán negociar ambos apartados solo si los demócratas dan su apoyo a un presupuesto provisional en una votación que tendría lugar mañana en el Senado y que mantendría el Gobierno operativo hasta noviembre.
Los republicanos presentaron el pasado 19 de septiembre ese presupuesto provisional en el Senado para su ratificación, pero este resultó rechazado porque su mayoría en la Cámara es insuficiente y requiere de al menos siete votos demócratas para la aprobación del proyecto de ley.
Al riesgo de una paralización del Gobierno federal se añade la posibilidad de despidos masivos de funcionarios públicos, según un memorando de la Oficina de Gestión y Presupuesto, que ha ordenado a las agencias que identifiquen programas clasificados como no esenciales para continuar su misión y reducir el personal federal.
Si el Congreso no toma medidas, miles de trabajadores del Gobierno federal podrían ser suspendidos, desde la NASA hasta los parques nacionales, y una amplia gama de servicios se verían interrumpidos.
Los tribunales federales podrían tener que cerrar y las subvenciones a las pequeñas empresas podrían retrasarse.
Los enfrentamientos presupuestarios se han convertido en algo relativamente rutinario en Washington en los últimos 15 años y a menudo se resuelven en el último minuto. Sin embargo, la voluntad de Trump de anular o ignorar las leyes de gasto aprobadas por el Congreso ha inyectado una nueva dimensión de incertidumbre.
Los demócratas han presentado un plan que prorrogaría la financiación actual entre siete y diez días, según fuentes del partido, lo que podría dar tiempo a alcanzar un acuerdo más duradero. Se trata de un plazo más corto que el respaldado por los republicanos, que ampliaría la financiación hasta el 21 de noviembre.
El líder republicano en el Senado, John Thune, trató de presionar a los demócratas programando una votación el martes sobre el proyecto republicano, que ya fracasó una vez en el Senado.
Ha habido 14 cierres parciales del Gobierno desde 1981, la mayoría de los cuales duraron solo unos días. El más reciente fue también el más largo, 35 días en 2018 y 2019 debido a una disputa sobre inmigración durante el primer mandato de Trump.
(Con información de EFE y Reuters)
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