Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) won a stunning political victory over President Donald Trump this past week, and according to Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski the Speaker should now turn up the pressure on the president to score a complete victory and possibly end his presidency. Trump agreed to sign a temporary funding…
Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart appeared on CNN’s New Day this morning and said that he believes that President Donald Trump is nearly impossible to negotiate with because everything he says “is fiction.†“Illegal immigration is at historical lows. There is no crisis at the border,” says Former Clinton White House Press Secretary,…
A desperate and unhinged Donald Trump took to his favorite platform this morning — Twitter — to make outlandish statements, defend himself, and promise that he would still build a border wall with Mexico. The president has come under withering attack from his right-wing base of conservative voters and media personalities since yesterday. One such…
Ann Coulter continued her attacks on President Donald Trump late into Friday night, tweeting just before midnight: ‘NO MORE WORDS! Break ground today.†NO MORE WORDS! Break ground today. https://t.co/mmGBrL53fO — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 26, 2019 Coulter’s tweet was in response to a Trump tweet had also posted late Friday night where he said…
Donald Trump tweeted late Wednesday night that he would wait to deliver his State of the Union address until after he has re-opened the government, in a total capitulation on the issue to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “As the Shutdown was going on, Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the…
Trump’s shutdown is nearly five weeks old, and as millions of Americans are going without pay, a potential crisis is hitting America’s airports. Millions of people traveled over the just-concluded holiday weekend, and it was reported that the percentage of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screeners missing work has hit 10 percent. The TSA workers…
The politics of Donald Trump’s shutdown are beginning to worry some big-time Republican operatives. Opinion polls show that while Trump has increased his approval ratings with Republican voters during the shutdown, he has lost significant ground with many important voting groups, such as independents and non-college educated white voters. These are both crucial demographics for…
On Monday, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who wants to reopen the government and has taken part in discussions trying to broker a compromise, issued a threat. If talks to end the shutdown don’t work, she told Erica Werner from the Washington Post, “We’re not just going to sit back and do nothing.” “Murkowski,…
A Fox News editorial published yesterday says that if Donald Trump doesn’t end his shutdown soon he will have no chance of being reelected as president in 2020. Since the shutdown began, numerous polls have shown President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating increasing to record highs. In addition, his approval rating, which has been steady since…
As Donald Trump continues his unhinged Twitter rants, and continues to blame Democrats for the shutdown he caused, one simple fact seems to have escaped him: Democrats can’t give him what he wants. Because the shutdown is extremely unpopular with the general public, and even more unpopular with Democratic voters, it would be almost impossible…
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that most Americans are blaming Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress for the partial government shutdown which is the longest in U.S. history. By nearly a two-to-one margin U.S. voters assign blame to the president and members of his party rather than to congressional Democrats. The poll also…
The partial government shutdown became the longest in U.S. history as of midnight last night, a dubious accomplishment for the record-shattering presidency of Donald Trump. The impasse between Trump and Congress has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers, as well as millions of federal contractors, with no income. The shutdown is causing real financial…
Key members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus have told Donald Trump that they don’t want him to take the extreme step of declaring a national emergency as a means to build his wall at the southern border. These House Republicans in the conservative group have privately expressed their objections to Trump and members of…
When President Donald Trump stormed out of a White House meeting with congressional leaders last Wednesday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sat there silently, uttering not a word as the talks blew up, according to others in the room.
Donald Trump’s last meeting with Democratic congressional leaders ended with him storming out of the room and declaring the talks “a total waste of time.†The Democratic Senate Leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, said that the president threw a “temper tantrum.†And now, after all that, Trump is going today to the U.S.-Mexico border…
A former GOP member of Congress has predicted that Donald Trump will leave the White House “soon†in a “spectacular political crash-and-burn†set to take place during 2019. John LeBoutillier, who was a Republican representative in New York City back in the 1980’s, made his prediction in a column for The Hill. LeBoutillier wrote in…
Donald Trump’s partial shutdown of the U.S. government is almost two weeks old. One of the effects of the shutdown that Trump probably didn’t anticipate is that he has closed most of the country’s immigration courts. His fight for the wall is now making it impossible to deport people, or even hear immigration cases. In…
One of the country’s largest unions has brought a lawsuit against Donald Trump for illegally shutting down part of the U.S. government while still requiring employees to work without getting paid. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) union, which represents federal workers, filed the suit yesterday. The key claim in the AFGE legal action…
White House officials are hoping that Trump’s government shutdown has created a situation that will benefit him politically as we move into the new year. According to a new report in The Daily Beast,Trump and his aides believe that the fight over a government funding bill will distract the Nancy Pelosi and the new Democratic…
In 2013 Donald Trump said that if there is a government shutdown the president should be fired. And this is one of the few times he has ever told the truth. Tens of millions of Americans no doubt agree with this thought also, as the week-long “Trump Shutdown†of the U.S. government is still continuing….
In just six days Democrats will control the U.S. House of Representatives, at which time they will probably make Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House, arguably the second most powerful position in Washington. And according to POLITICO, Pelosi and the Democrats have a plan in place to totally demolish Donald Trump in their ongoing battle…
Donald Trump is already losing his shutdown battle with Democrats. After his return from Iraq today he immediately began tweeting desperately, threatening to hold Democratic voters hostage until he gets funding for his border wall with Mexico. But two new polls show that his position is very unpopular. Writing on Twitter, Trump told Democrats that…
With Congress on break for a long Christmas weekend we know that Trump’s government shutdown will last until at least Thursday. If it goes on much longer than that it won’t be the fault of Democrats, however. It will because Republicans on Capitol Hill can’t agree among themselves how to end the impasse. Yesterday the…
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) had harsh words for President Trump early Saturday morning over that they are calling “the Trump shutdown.†Thanks to Trump large parts of the federal government are being closed after Congress failed to pass legislation that would provide funding for his “ineffective…
According to the editors of the Washington Post, people “go into public service to make sacrifices and to accomplish some good for their fellow citizens, not to be pawns in pointless political gamesmanship.†But  hundreds of thousands of federal workers who will have to work without pay over the holidays have become exactly that: pawns…
President Donald Trump has a deadline of midnight tonight. If he doesn’t sign a bill providing money needed by key federal agencies by that time, there will be a partial government shutdown. While millions of Americans look on with shock and horror, the president seems to be enjoying himself. On Friday he bragged that a…
Republican leaders in Congress are desperately trying to stop President Trump from shutting down crucial parts of the United States government, according to the Washington Post. On Monday they contacted the White House, asking that the president back off his threat of a partial shutdown if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall. If…
The U.S. government has been pushed to “the brink of a partial shutdown,†according to the Associated Press (AP).  With both sides unwilling to budge, a compromise solution does not look possible. On the one hand, Donald Trump and his White House aides say that Congress must provide $5 billion to build a wall along the…
Republicans in Congress are expecting a partial government shutdown, “just in time for Christmas,†but they would probably rather have a lump of coal. President Trump’s harmful comments at a White House meeting with congressional Democrats on Tuesday about how he would accept blame for a shutdown have made the partial shutdown scenario much more…
U.S. lawmakers struggled on Sunday to reach a breakthrough during the second day of a government shutdown.
If Republicans and Democrats are unable to resolve their differences, federal agencies could remain partially closed when the work week begins on Monday.
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.
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.
