As The #TrumpShutdown Continues, The President Digs In Even Further
As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.
As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.
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.
With Democrats set to take control of Congress today, a resolution to the shutdown doesn’t appear to be any closer.
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.
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?
The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the Trump Administration to have an injunction against its new asylum policy lifted.
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.
Hours before the House was set to vote on a temporary funding bill for the government, President Trump has apparently changed his mind.
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.
With the Friday night deadline fast approaching, nobody in Washington seems to know what’s going on.
As Washington heads into the final days of a budget shutdown, Republicans find themselves on the losing end of a public relations battle.
House Republicans reportedly don’t have the votes to fund the President’s border wall.
Once again, President Trump is threatening a shutdown over the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.
This month’s budget fight is likely the last chance the President will have to get any funding for his border wall.
Defense Secretary James Mattis has announced that the deployment of U.S. troops to the Mexican border will be extended through the end of this year.
A brewing fight over funding for the President’s border wall could throw a monkey wrench into plans to pass a budget by next Friday.
A Federal Judge has ruled that the Trump Administration’s efforts to limit the ability of migrants to claim asylum violates Federal law.
Now that the election is over, President Trump and his sycophants in the right-wing media seem to have completely forgotten about the “invading” “caravan” of Central American asylum seekers.
Late last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals became the fifth Federal Court to rule against the Trump Administration’s efforts to repeal DACA.
In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.
As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.
On Wednesday Trump tweeted out a crass, dishonest ad in hopes of leveraging fear and racism as a political tool.
Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.
President Trump wants to send more troops than we have in Syria and Iraq combined to the border to deal with a non-existent threat.
President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.
The Trump Administration’s war on so-called “Sanctuary Cities” suffers yet another defeat in Court.
A Federal Judge in Texas has declined to grant a request to bring the DACA program to an end, but its days appear to be numbered unless Congress acts.
Passports being denied to citizens whose birth records are being questioned.
A new government report indicates that President Trump’s border wall will cost billions more than initially projected. And Mexico still isn’t going to pay for it.
Laura Ingraham has responded to the deluge of criticism to her foolish and disturbing commentary. This response is also disturbing. Her attempt to walk back the racist tone of her monologue falls flat. Her statement trying to make her views more clear reveal more of her limited thinking on this matter and in general.
There has been a deluge of responses to Laura Ingraham’s recent diatribe about culture and immigration, but I want to look at her rhetoric from a different perspective. The perspective I want to look at is statements by Ingraham about cultures changing over time and the implications in regards to policies about these changes.
The legal fight over DACA could end up posing problems for Republicans in November.
Another Federal Judge has dealt a legal blow to President Trump’s effort to shut down the DACA program.
A Federal Appeals Court has found that a Trump Administration policy purporting to punish so-called sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.
A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.
President Trump is suggesting he may force a government shutdown over his immigration policies just a month before the midterm elections.
More evidence that the politics of the moment aren’t just about illegal immigration.
A new poll lends credence to the suggestion that Democrats should be careful about rallying behind the call to “Abolish ICE.”
A Federal Judge has rejected a Trump Administration effort to change a 20-year-old legal settlement that bars long-term detention of immigrant families.
A new poll finds that most Americans oppose key elements of the immigration policies that the President and Republicans in Congress support.