Congress Careens Toward Partial Government Shutdown
A breakdown during negotiations on a government funding deal means that Congress may quickly find itself near a partial government shutdown.
A breakdown during negotiations on a government funding deal means that Congress may quickly find itself near a partial government shutdown.
President Donald Trump on Saturday referred to prominent conservative author Ann Coulter as a “Wacky Nut Job” following months of criticism she has directed at him regarding the lack of progress building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Job Creator’s Network slammed a report Monday for “contorted spin” on small business optimism, while citing nearly all CEOs of such businesses expect increased or equal revenues in 2019.
“See you in Florida,” Trump said to reporters as he left the White House.
“The table has been perfectly set by the president in order for a good deal to come together where everybody gets a little bit of something they are looking for,” she said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) celebrated the end of the government shutdown by bragging about manipulating President Donald Trump.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson announced on Friday that his agency would provide $2 billion in grants for homeless programs across the country.
“We’ll work with the Democrats and negotiate and if we can’t do that, then obviously we’ll do the emergency because that’s what it is. It’s a national emergency.”
The White House is preparing a much-anticipated plan to have President Donald Trump declare a national emergency at the southern border, CNN reported Thursday evening.
“I think that Chuck Schumer sadly is dominated by the radical left and he’s dominated by Nancy Pelosi: very strongly dominated,” Trump said.
Judge Richard Gergel, U.S. District Court in South Carolina, has halted the Trump administration’s effort to continue processing permits to allow seismic testing off the Atlantic coast during the partial government shutdown.
Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives Tim Moore invited President Trump to deliver the State of the Union address in the chambers of the state’s House of Representatives in Raleigh in a letter that was dated January 17 and released to the press Friday afternoon.
Now there is nothing stopping Trump from giving the State of the Union address elsewhere — like, say, an arena in a swing state.
President Donald Trump quoted CNN’s Jim Acosta Thursday for a tweet that provided evidence that border “walls work.”
Some D.C. restaurants, museums, and even banks are offering freebies to furloughed non-essential federal employees during the shutdown.
As the partial government shutdown affecting about a quarter of the federal government nears the one-week mark, President Donald Trump is escalating his battle for the border wall with Democrats, pushing for more funding for the barrier.