Claiming too earlyThis may be the single biggest issue impacting Americans because Social Security allows people to begin collecting their benefits when they turn 62.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he hoped there would be a strong bipartisan vote for the House bill.but later said Democrats would support it given its exclusion of spending cuts and extreme right-wing policy riders.

Congress reached a last-minute deal to fund the government through Nov.Whats in the continuing resolution?The two-step bill extends appropriations dealing with veterans programs.House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the measure less than a week before funding from a short-term bill passed in September was set to expire.

averting a government shutdown and punting a spending fight in Congress until early next year.Only one Democratic senator voted against the measure.

The Housepassed the bill.

But dissent from within his own party over its lack of spending cuts or funding for border security required Johnson to rely on Democratic votes to get it over the finish linewhich is why the government is arranging for the possibletransfer of hipposto other countries.

once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three female hippos and one male decades ago in Puerto Triunfo.a plan that was announced in March.

It was part of a larger government effort to control the population of more than 100 of the mammals that roam around unsupervised in some rivers.800 and entails risks for the hippopotamus.