Outside the Beltway

President Trump threatened mass immigration raids. What was delivered was far less met the eye.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

The House Judiciary Committee has upped the ante in the showdown between the Trump Administration and Congress.

After a year of fighting, the Administration has given up on its effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

The Trump Administration is expected to begin mass deportation raids as early as this weekend.

Not a new observation, but one that should not be forgotten.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

A new report in The New York Times raises both national security and Constitutional concerns.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

Counter-Intelligence officials are warning that Russia is preparing another election interference campaign for the 2020 election.

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

Says “He’s pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him accomplish his goal.”

The tumultuous turnover at the top of the Trump team is too much.

Add DHS to the list of Departments being run by interims.

The (Acting) Secretary of Defense has issued an unconstitutional order.

President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border while at the same time undercutting his own case for doing so.

Most Americans don’t want to see another government shutdown, but they’re somewhat divided on the issue of a border wall.

Congressional negotiators have reportedly reached a budget deal, but it’s not clear if the President will agree to it.

Negotiations to avert another shutdown appear to have stalled over the weekend with just four days left to go before funding runs out.

In a deal that can only be described as a cave by the President, the government shutdown is on course to be ended by the end of the day today.

As the shutdown enters day thirty-five, there are some signs of movement in Washington but no real progress.

The Senate rejected Republican and Democratic proposals as expected but there are some signs of movement forward.

As the shutdown enters its thirty-fourth day and the Senate gets ready to vote on proposals that have no chance of succeeding, Democrats are preparing a new proposal.

The Senate has the ball this week in terms of action on the government shutdown, but its work is going to end up being utterly pointless.

Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.

President Trump put an offer on the table to end the shutdown, the question is whether it will actually lead anywhere.

With Democrats making a new proposal and the President set to speak later today, there could be movement on ending the government shutdown. I wouldn’t be too optimistic, though.

Nancy Pelosi is “suggesting” to the President that the State of the Union be rescheduled for a time after the government shutdown ends, but it clearly seems like more than just a suggestion.

The Speaker is well within her rights to make Trump’s invitation conditional on ending the shutdown. But let’s not pretend we can’t keep him safe.

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.

As the shutdown continues, there’s little sign of progress on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Terrorists aren’t walking across the desert to get here. Flying is so much easier.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

The next head to roll in the Trump Administration appears to be frequent Trump target DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

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.

Partisan officials should not be in charge of state election processes, much less their own.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.