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Pence says White House looking into Trump’s ability to declare border emergency – CNN

Monday, January 07, 2019

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White House signals some compromise in ending U.S. government shutdown – AOL

Monday, January 07, 2019

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Showing signs of compromise, the White House signaled on Sunday that talks to reopen the federal government could produce a deal in which President Donald Trump moves away from his demand that a proposed barrier along the southern border be a concrete wall. The possible concession, which comes days after Trump had floated a barrier of steel instead of a concrete wall, came even as…

Bolton says Turkey must not attack Kurdish fighters once US leaves Syria – AOL

Monday, January 07, 2019

JERUSALEM, Jan 6 (Reuters) – White House national security adviser John Bolton added a new condition on Sunday to the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, saying Turkey must agree to protect the United States’ Kurdish allies. President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to announce a U.S. pullout from Syria left many questions open, chiefly whether Kurdish fighters who had been operating in northern Syria alongside U.S. forces would now be attacked by…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: I’m ‘a consensus builder’, not ‘a flamethrower’ – Washington Examiner

Monday, January 07, 2019

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said she doesn’t mind being labeled “radical,” but doesn’t see herself as a “flamethrower.” “There’s a lot of folks that I think sometimes want to brand me as a flamethrower. But really the truth, I think the truth of what I am is a consensus builder,” Ocasio-Cortez told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in a behind-the-scenes clip from her Sunday night interview. “I like to think that I’m…

Passing The Torch, California Gov. Jerry Brown Tells Newsom, ‘Don’t Screw It Up’ – NPR

Monday, January 07, 2019

California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom emerge from the Governor’s office to talk with reporters after meeting at the Capitol. Newsom will be sworn into office Monday Jan. 7, 2019. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption toggle caption Rich Pedroncelli/AP California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom emerge from the Governor’s office to talk with reporters after meeting at the Capitol. Newsom will be sworn into office…

Liz Peek: Instead of attacking Trump, here’s what Romney should be doing – Fox News

Monday, January 07, 2019

Video Press loves Romney’s Trump blast New senator rips the president in op-ed. Shame on Mitt Romney. Publishing an ad hominem attack on President Trump in The Washington Post on the cusp of occupying a Senate seat that he won with the help of an endorsement from the Oval Office was dishonorable. In addition, it underscored what many voters suspected all along about Romney: that he is not to be…

How Trump’s tweet storms to rally support for the government shutdown seem to be working – CNBC

Sunday, January 06, 2019

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Politics Since first threatening a government shutdown last month in his battle with Congress over border wall funding, President Donald Trump has leaned heavily on Twitter to rally support among his followers. So far, the strategy seems to be working. That, however, doesn’t bode well for a quick resolution to the standoff. With a partial government shutdown now in its third week, the White…

Trump: ‘May declare a national emergency’ to build wall – CNN

Sunday, January 06, 2019

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GOP Strategist Calls Ocasio-Cortez ‘The Little Girl.’ She Lets Him Have It. – HuffPost

Sunday, January 06, 2019

So Ocasio-Cortez, “far from showing her craziness, is fully in line with serious economic research,” Krugman added. Republican policy to keep taxes on the wealthy low, on the other hand, “rests on research by … well, nobody,” he added.

Shutdown spares federal park rangers at site in Trump’s Washington hotel – Los Angeles Times

Sunday, January 06, 2019

A watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the General Services Administration, seeking documents explaining why the tower was open, how it continues to be funded and any communications between the agency and the Trump Organization, the president’s company. Trump gave up day-to-day management of the firm in 2017 but continues to receive earnings from its operations.

Mulvaney: Saturday shutdown meeting ‘did not make much progress’ – CNN

Sunday, January 06, 2019

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Donald Trump Makes Wild Boast About ‘Great Support’ For The Border Wall – HuffPost

Saturday, January 05, 2019

Trump is refusing to end the partial government shutdown unless Democrats grant him federal funding for the wall that he originally told voters Mexico would pay for. Democratic lawmakers, including new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have pointedly said they do not endorse the wall idea.

Trump warns shutdown could last ‘years,’ says he may declare ‘national emergency’ to build border wall – Fox News

Saturday, January 05, 2019

Video Trump: We had a productive meeting with Pelosi and Schumer, we’re all on the same page of wanting to get government open President Trump says discussions will continue about funding for border security after meeting with congressional leaders at the White House. President Trump stood firm Friday on his demands for a border wall after the second White House meeting with congressional leaders this week broke up with no…

Homeland Security blasts CNN, says TSA ‘sick out’ report ‘grossly misrepresented’ situation at airports – Fox News

Saturday, January 05, 2019

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers assist travelers with luggage through a security screening area during a partial federal government shutdown Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state. (Associated Press) A Department of Homeland Security spokesman lashed out at CNN on Friday, labeling as “fake news” the network’s report that hundreds of Transportation Security Administration screeners at the nation’s airports have been staging a “sick out” this…

GOP Clutches Pearls Over Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s ‘Foul Language,’ Shrugs Over Trump’s – HuffPost

Friday, January 04, 2019

“I’m not in the censorship business. I don’t like that language, I wouldn’t use that language, but I wouldn’t establish language standards for my colleagues,” Pelosi told MSNBC Friday, when asked about Tlaib’s comments, before adding that “I don’t think it’s anything worse than what the president has said.”

Pelosi downplays Rashida Tlaib’s profanity-laced vow to impeach Trump, as Republicans fume – Fox News

Friday, January 04, 2019

Video ‘We are not doing a wall’: Pelosi vows there will be no funding for a border wall in her first hours as House speaker After retaking the gavel on Capitol Hill, Nancy Pelosi dashed any hopes from Republicans that she would be more agreeable to a border wall once her House speakership campaign was over by telling the press that Democrats will not agree to one; Doug McKelway reports….

House Democrats vote to reopen government, reject Trump’s demand for wall funding – CNN

Friday, January 04, 2019

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On ‘wall’ fight, Democrats are the cynical ones – Washington Examiner

Thursday, January 03, 2019

Democratic leaders are negotiating in bad faith, against good policy, and to lamentable results in the current border-wall-funding theater on Capitol Hill. Set aside for now the realities that President Trump has played his pro-wall poker hand incredibly ineptly, that conservatives in general have badly overstated the relative importance of immigration-related policy, and that the Trumpian Right has cultishly turned “The Wall” into an item of absurdly talismanic significance. Those…

Pelosi’s Day 1: Win the gavel, change the rules, end the shutdown – Washington Examiner

Thursday, January 03, 2019

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats return to power in the House on Thursday with an ambitious first-day agenda that involves her election as speaker, changes to longstanding House rules, and an attempt to end the government shutdown. But it also marks a return to divided government and more legislative gridlock that in the past has fueled frustration with Congress among voters. That gridlock could already be seen Wednesday, when Pelosi,…

On ‘wall’ fight, Democrats are the cynical ones – Washington Examiner

Thursday, January 03, 2019

Democratic leaders are negotiating in bad faith, against good policy, and to lamentable results in the current border-wall-funding theater on Capitol Hill. Set aside for now the realities that President Trump has played his pro-wall poker hand incredibly ineptly, that conservatives in general have badly overstated the relative importance of immigration-related policy, and that the Trumpian Right has cultishly turned “The Wall” into an item of absurdly talismanic significance. Those…