Tourists who came to Battery Park in lower Manhattan hoping to catch a ferry to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor got an unpleasant surprise on Saturday, learning the must-see destination was closed because of the U.S. government shutdown.
By the time the deadline had passed without a deal and exhausted senators returned home to bed, #TrumpShutdown was fast becoming the top trending item on Twitter worldwide.
President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress failed to meet a midnight Friday deadline to pass a short-term bill to extend federal funding, forcing some government facilities to shutdown.
The White House released pictures of Trump and the White House staff laughing and smiling as millions of Americans are about be harmed by the Trump Shutdown. Here are the pictures from The White House as provided to PoliticusUSA: Trump tries to sell more hats, while on the phone: A picture of Trump walking somewhere,…
Check out images from the Women’s March of 2018!
Many thousands of women and their male supporters turned out on Saturday for the second Women’s March, a nationwide series of protests against U.S. President Donald Trump marking the end of his tumultuous first year in office.
At least one Republican lawmaker engaged with Russia-linked content on Twitter during the 2016 election. On Saturday, Texas Sen. John Cornyn tweeted a screenshot of an email the social networking platform had sent notifying him of the fact that he’d been one of the hundreds of thousands to have interacted with Russian content. The message…
The Trump presidential campaign put out a new campaign ad and statement that accused Democrats of being complicit in murders committed by illegal immigrants. Here is the press release from the Trump campaign: Trump had a choice when the government shut down. He could choose to either lead the country and look for a deal…
The FBI is looking into whether a Russian banker with close ties to Putin and the Kremlin sent money to the National Rifle Association (NRA) during the presidential campaign to help push Trump to victory. The NRA spent an estimated $30 million supporting the Trump campaign, and as the original McClatchy report notes, it’s against…
Russian bots are busy at work promoting the GOP’s latest attempt to discredit the investigation looking into whether Trump colluded with the Russian government to sway the 2016 election. According the website Hamilton 68, which tracks the Twitter activity of propaganda accounts and bots linked to Russia, the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo was tweeted 3,916 times on…
During a press briefing, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney announced that Trump will not be going to Florida to attend his private party now that the government is shut down. Video: When a reporter asked if Trump was still going to Florida and then Davos on Monday, Mulvaney answered, “No. My understanding is that the president…
Trump tried to troll the Women’s March by touting his own achievements, but it all blew up in his face. Trump’s Twitter account tweeted: Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation…
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer compared negotiating with Trump to negotiating with Jell-O, but here are three more ways that Donald Trump is like Jell-O. Video of Schumer comparing Trump to Jell-O: Schumer said, “Negotiaing with this White House is like negotiating with Jell-O. It’s next to impossible. As soon as you take one…
All across the country, people are marching to show the president that they are more motivated than ever to stand up to his dangerous agenda.
Women march in solidarity to advocate for legislation for women’s rights as human rights. The march includes support for immigration reform, healthcare reform, reproductive rights, environment protection, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, and freedom of religion. Watch Live:
Trump’s failure to win passage by the U.S. Congress of a stopgap bill to maintain funding for the federal government further damaged his self-crafted image as a dealmaker who would repair the broken culture in Washington.
Hours after Donald Trump’s actions led to a government shutdown, the president penned an op-ed touting his so-called accomplishments over the past year.
Tens of thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets of New York, Los Angeles and Washington on Saturday for the second Women’s March, a multi-city mass rally hailed as the start of a new era of female political activism.
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) told members of his caucus that House Republicans would refuse to negotiate anything on immigration to end the government shutdown, which means that Republicans have just made their own situation worse. Robert Costa tweeted what he is hearing from House Republicans: Inside the room: House GOP read…
It’s going to be hard for Trump to convince the American people that the government shutdown is the Democrats’ fault when not even his own party agrees.
Twitter Inc, which is reviewing Russian interference during the 2016 U.S. elections, said on Friday it would notify some of its users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service.
Trump’s propaganda tweets were undercut by his own White House as it is being reported that privately, Trump knows he will be blamed for the government shutdown. The New York Times reported, “After the failed negotiations on Capitol Hill and at the White House, Democrats predicted that the public would blame Mr. Trump and his…
This year, spending delays have forced the Pentagon to scale back training exercises, leaving Air Force planes on the ground and Marines in the barracks. Military officials also say they have postponed purchases of bombs and missiles.
On Real Time With Bill Maher, Fire And Fury author Michael Wolff suggested that Trump is having affairs in the White House. Video: Here was the exchange between Maher and Wolff: Bill: I thought one of the biggest adjustments for him was he moves into the white house, he can’t play — he has hotels…
