The government shutdown has now entered historic territory, and the Trump Administration is moving closer to a “national emergency” or other extra-legal means to get money for his wall.
Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.
President Trump stormed out of a meeting with Congressional leaders as the shutdown drags on with no end in sight.
New polling clearly indicates that the President is losing the battle for public opinion over the government shutdown.
President Trump’s speech on the border wall and the shutdown was fact-free, misleading, and overall a bomb.
As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.
The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.
President Trump is claiming that he could use authority to declare a “national emergency” to build his wall even if Congress doesn’t authorize it.
President Trump is offering to change his ‘concrete wall’ with a ‘steel barrier’ in what he apparently things is a compromise.
President Trump is making clear that he doesn’t care how his shutdown is impacting Federal workers.
With Pat Roberts retiring, Kansas Republicans are reportedly looking at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to succeed him.
As the shutdown continues, there’s little sign of progress on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.
Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is the second Republican to announce his retirement, but his seat should remain safely red.
As the shutdown drags on, Mitch McConnell finds himself facing pressure from the White House and from members of his own caucus.
In a late first-day session, Congress passed a series of bills designed to reopen most of the government, but they’re already ‘dead on arrival’ in the Senate.
Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.
With Democrats set to take control of Congress today, a resolution to the shutdown doesn’t appear to be any closer.
Before even taking office, Mitt Romney is taking on the President. It’s a good sign, but we’ll see what it leads to.
The longer the shutdown goes on, the wider its impact is likely to become.
Democrats have unveiled what appears as if it will be their first effort to end the shutdown, but there are already signs Republicans will reject it.
President Trump is now threatening to close the border if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall.
As 2018 draws to a close, there’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.
New polling indicates that President Trump is getting the blame for the ongoing government shutdown.
Congress will not be returning to Washington until some time next week. Thus guaranteeing that this shutdown will last at least through January 3rd.
Is it possible that the solution to the government shutdown is letting the President pretend he got funding for his border wall even though he didn’t?
Christmas is behind us, but don’t expect any progress when it comes to the government shutdown, which is in its fifth day.
While it has an admitted populist appeal. the idea of Congressional pay being withheld during a shutdown is a non-starter due to the Constitution.
There was no progress on resolving the government shutdown today, and little hope that anything will happen before late next week.
While the political media is spending a lot of time talking about it, the actual impact of this latest government shutdown is likely to be limited and possibly even unnoticeable to most Americans.
The government entered its third shutdown of the year with little sign of an immediate resolution.
With just hours to go, a partial government shutdown is becoming more and more likely.
Hours before the House was set to vote on a temporary funding bill for the government, President Trump has apparently changed his mind.
Tennessee will have an open Senate seat in 2020 thanks to Lamar Alexander’s decision to retire at the end of his current term.
The Senate passed a bill that keeps the government funded through the beginning of February, but fails to provide any funding for the President’s border wall.
The Senate overwhelmingly passed major reforms in Federal sentencing and related laws. As the name of the bill implies, it’s a first step, but a good first step.
With three days to go before a government shutdown, there are at least some signs that the President may be backing away from his threats to shut down the government over funding for his border wall.
With the Friday night deadline fast approaching, nobody in Washington seems to know what’s going on.
Republicans scored a win in Court last week, but it seems likely to lead to a political loss in the long-term.
In a small, but meaningful, step, the Senate has rebuked the Administration’s policies toward the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Jon Kyl was named to replace John McCain back in September, but as expected he’s already announcing that he’ll be leaving at the end of the year.
House Republicans reportedly don’t have the votes to fund the President’s border wall.
The Trump Administration appears to think that the Budget Deficit and National Debt aren’t a big deal because we can just grow our way out of the problem. This is highly unlikely to happen.
Nancy Pelosi is apparently close to a deal with dissident Democrats that will keep her in power until at least 2022.
Senator Mitch McConnell and others are blocking a criminal justice reform bill currently pending in the Senate.
This month’s budget fight is likely the last chance the President will have to get any funding for his border wall.
Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t really care about reports of an approaching crisis of the budget deficit and national debt because he’ll be out of office before it becomes a problem.
Mia Love, recently narrowly defeated in her bid for re-election, has some parting words for her party. They probably won’t listen, but they should.
Nancy Pelosi won a key vote yesterday on the road to returning as Speaker of the House again in January.
In the end, the race between Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy was not even close.
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