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Jennifer covers the nation’s capital as a senior reporter for States Newsroom. Her coverage areas include congressional policy, politics and legal challenges with a focus on health care, unemployment, housing and aid to families.
New Jersey Monitor is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
U.S. House speaker confronts anti-war protesters at Columbia University
By: Jennifer Shutt - April 25, 2024
Protesters watching the press conference repeatedly chanted over the GOP lawmakers as they spoke and booed Johnson several times as he criticized their actions.
Biden signs $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan into law
By: Jennifer Shutt - April 24, 2024
The package also included a measure requiring the popular app TikTok be sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a possible ban.
U.S. Senate sends foreign aid bill to Biden as McConnell chides GOP ‘isolationist movement’
By: Jennifer Shutt - April 23, 2024
The 80-19 procedural vote sets up a final passage vote as soon as Tuesday evening, though that could move into Wednesday.
Aid to Ukraine, Israel overwhelmingly approved by U.S. House in bipartisan vote
By: Jennifer Shutt - April 20, 2024
The decision to debate aid to Ukraine, and pass the bill with a majority of the yes votes coming from Democrats, presents a risk to Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership role.
An 1873 law banned the mailing of boxing photos. Could it block abortion pills too?
By: Jennifer Shutt - April 4, 2024
An anti-obscenity law enacted in 1873 that hasn’t been enforced in decades shot to the forefront of the nation’s abortion debate in the past week.
Democrats’ quest to hang on to U.S. Senate majority centers on Arizona, Montana and Ohio
By: Jennifer Shutt - April 4, 2024
The struggle for control of the U.S. Senate fluid and will likely remain that way until all the ballots are counted, experts say.
Biden campaign, Jan. 6 officers decry Trump use of ‘political violence’ in post of video
By: Jennifer Shutt - April 2, 2024
A Trump posting on social media over the weekend showed Biden “hogtied and gagged in the back of a pickup truck."
U.S. Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of limits on access to abortion medication
By: Jennifer Shutt - March 26, 2024
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the conservative-dominated court that restrictions would be unnecessary due to the numerous reputable studies that have shown mifepristone to be safe and effective.
U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments Tuesday on abortion pill limits
By: Jennifer Shutt - March 25, 2024
The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court likely will not issue their opinion on the use of mifepristone until late spring.
U.S. Senate in overnight vote sends $1.2 trillion government spending package to Biden
By: Jennifer Shutt - March 23, 2024
The 74-24 vote wraps up the government funding process for fiscal year 2024, which began back on Oct. 1.
Congress rushes to approve $1.2 trillion spending package ahead of midnight deadline
By: Jennifer Shutt - March 22, 2024
The U.S. House passed a $1.2 trillion government spending bill, giving the Senate hours to clear it before a midnight deadline.
The U.S. Senate repealed Iraq war authorizations a year ago. In the House, they’re frozen.
By: Jennifer Shutt - March 22, 2024
The House bill to repeal the Iraq war AUMFs has 71 co-sponsors that span the political spectrum and represent 30 states, showing the legislation could have the support needed to pass.