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Trump Will Sign Border Deal To Avoid A Shutdown

Trump Will Sign Border Deal To Avoid A Shutdown

President Donald Trump is planning to sign the bipartisan spending package Congress has agreed upon regarding border security according to…

5 years ago

Fox News Editorial Warns Trump to End the Shutdown ‘Now’

A Fox News editorial published yesterday says that if Donald Trump doesn’t end his shutdown soon he will have no…

5 years ago

Trump Won’t Use Disaster Funds For His Wall After All

The Trump administration is backing off its plan to use disaster relief funding to build a Mexican border wall due…

5 years ago

Republicans Are Panicking As Trump’s Shutdown Continues

The Trump Shutdown is now three weeks old, the longest U.S. government shutdown ever, and it is really starting to…

5 years ago

Democrats Play Hardball and Pledge to Paralyze the Senate

Democrats in the U.S. Senate are planning to stop the consideration of all non-shutdown legislation on the floor of the…

5 years ago

Lindsey Graham Implies That Nancy Pelosi Is a ‘Crazy’ ‘Radical Liberal’

GOP Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was on the CBS show “Face the Nation” on Sunday and implied that…

5 years ago

Trump Is Radioactive So Many Republicans Want Nothing to Do With Him

Everybody knows that President Donald Trump has many enemies and detractors in the new Democratic-led House of Representatives. But it’s…

5 years ago

House Budget Chair Willing to Give In to Trump For Dreamer Protections

New House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) said on Friday that some amount of money for border security in…

5 years ago

Senators Push For New Immigration Deal to End Shutdown

Several key members of the U.S. Senate have said they want to revive controversial immigration negotiations as a way to…

5 years ago

Twice as Many Voters Blame Trump for Shutdown Than Blame Democrats

Twice as many Americans blame Donald Trump than blame congressional Democrats for the partial government shutdown that is now nearly…

5 years ago

Trump Shutdown Closes Immigration Courts, Stopping Deportations

Donald Trump’s partial shutdown of the U.S. government is almost two weeks old. One of the effects of the shutdown…

5 years ago

Trump Losing Shutdown Battle, Says He’ll Hold Democrats Hostage

Donald Trump is already losing his shutdown battle with Democrats. After his return from Iraq today he immediately began tweeting…

5 years ago

Trump: Government Won’t Open ‘Until We Have a Wall’

Donald Trump yesterday said that the partial shutdown of the federal government will last until Congress gives in to his…

5 years ago

Ocasio-Cortez Wants Congress to Give Up Salaries During Shutdowns

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday called for congressional salaries to be furloughed during government shutdowns. When one-fourth of federal…

5 years ago

Trump Has Succumbed to ‘the Tyranny of Talk Radio Hosts’

As critical agencies within the federal government shut down at midnight Friday, there is no clear sign that a compromise…

5 years ago

Shutdown Threat, Obamacare Ruling Will Destroy the Republican Party

The Republican Party is a shipwreck. The entire party is facing a disaster of historic proportions, and its members don’t…

5 years ago

House speaker: Trump to back spending bill, avert shutdown

Paul Ryan on Wednesday said he is confident that President Donald Trump would approve a congressional spending bill to fund…

6 years ago

Madman Trump Still Threatens Shutdown: “I Think It’s a Good Thing, Politically”

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he still wants to shut down the United States government over his immigration and…

6 years ago

Senate adjourns till 12:01 a.m. EST without approving budget deal

The U.S. Senate adjourned on Thursday until 12:01 a.m. EST (0500 GMT) without approving a budget deal. The current temporary…

6 years ago

Congress leaders reach $300 billion budget deal

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday reached a two-year bipartisan budget deal worth around $300 billion that would lift caps on…

6 years ago

The Trump Shutdown Unmasks A Weak President Who Has Surrendered the Reins of Control

"Will Donald Trump take the reins of his presidency back?" asks Kasie Hunt. The MSNBC host of Kasie DC continued,…

6 years ago

Trump’s dealmaker image tarnished by U.S. government shutdown

Trump's failure to win passage by the U.S. Congress of a stopgap bill to maintain funding for the federal government…

6 years ago

Trump Is Blowing A Gasket Because The Shutdown Is Keeping Him from His Mar-a-Lago Party

President Trump understands what's at stake right now, as we sit on the precipice of a government shutdown: His anniversary…

6 years ago

Boehner Ally Calls Ted Cruz Republicans “Right Wing Marxists”

"The right-wing Marxists have teamed up with Pelosi. They're the ones who always team up with Pelosi. They are the…

9 years ago

Republicans Are Fixated On Using Extortion To Rule America

The truth is that since teabaggers became de facto leaders of the Republican Party, they have contemplated various schemes to…

10 years ago

Ted Cruz Is Just the Figurehead of The Koch/DeMint Destroy Government Conspiracy

Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and…

11 years ago

Republicans Who Refused to Do Their Jobs Are Complaining About Getting Nothing Out of Shutdown

Republican members of Congress and their conservative talking heads are angrily complaining that they did not get anything for shutting…

11 years ago

The Senate has the Constitutional Power to Expel Ted Cruz

The Senate theoretically has the Constitutonal power to expel Ted Cruz by a two-thirds vote immediately and with no recourse.

11 years ago

Republicans Have Put America in Distress Because They Refuse to Do Their Jobs

Every one of America's fiscal crises over the past three-and-a-half years is because Republicans refuse to do their jobs of…

11 years ago

Tea Party Terrorist Republicans Are on an Economic Suicide Mission to Harm Obama

Tea party Republicans who are willing to commit political suicide to punish the people for electing an African American man…

11 years ago

Ender’s Shame: How A Classic Sci-Fi Novel Parallels Today’s Tea Party

Orson Scott Card wrote his 1985 novel about the dangers of manipulating children. He could have easily been writing about…

11 years ago

Tell the Justice Department to Investigate the Koch Brothers’ Seditious Govt Shutdown Plot

It's time for the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the conservative plot to harm the US government…

11 years ago

Republicans Have Made America Into a Global Laughingstock With Their Government Shutdown

It is a sad commentary indeed that a group of anti-government terrorists have, in two years brought shame on a…

11 years ago

Republican Terrorists Have Exposed Themselves as The Traitors They Are

Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence…

11 years ago

Blinders On: How The Tea Party Led Republicans Straight To Political Suicide

With no end goal in mind, the Tea Party blindly led Republicans over a political cliff that will ultimately undermine…

11 years ago

Republican Traitors Draped in Tea Keep Their Promise to Break the Government

The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; "break the government of the United States."

11 years ago

Rafael, the Wacko Birds and Their Celebrated Shutdown

Rafael and the wacko birds celebrated the government shutdown as if they actually accomplished something.

11 years ago