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government, restoring food stamps to 45 million poor and working-class households that rely on them, avoiding chaos in the nation's air traffic system, unwinding layoffs and providing back pay to more than 1
Senate Democrats pushed back against the House-passed provision, which would deliver more than 30 percent of the tax benefit to the top 1 percent of households based on income, according to the Tax Policy
Best of the best (1) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: The minority leader started the year relatively quietly. He has reemerged in a big way.
Pelosi in briefing room, stumps for ‘wall’ by any other name] Hours later, at the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked if there is any scenario under which she would agree to give the president $1
Before the votes Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated that Democrats will not agree to a border wall but joked that she’d give Trump $1 for it. “A dollar?”
Watch: Sparring over the shutdown [jwp-video n=”1″] Given the shutdown, the first afternoon of floor speeches in the new Congress sounded a lot like the final floor speeches of the prior
Watch: Pelosi seeks a return to regular order, like many before her [jwp-video n=”1″] After initially saying she would not put an end date on her speakership, as some of her opponents had
Schumer: Trump Holding Federal Employees ‘Hostage’ [jwp-video n=”1″] “Hopefully we can get there Friday,” McCarthy said, referring to congressional leaders and White House officials having
Watch: 2018 in 5 Minutes — the Best of Congressional Hits and Misses [jwp-video n=”1″]
“We are in a shutdown because Democrats refuse to fund border security,” Trump said even though Democratic leaders have floated over $1 billion in such dollars for the rest of the fiscal year.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Trump began threatening to shut down the government if he didn’t get his funding months ago. In a Dec. 11 meeting with Senate Minority Leader Charles E.
2018 in 5 Minutes: The Best of Congressional Hits and Misses [jwp-video n=”1″] Lawmakers involved in the talks and analysts already since the Trump-Pelosi immigration brawl could keep the
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2018 var rcrdTwitter = 1; The next morning, the president was back on Twitter threatening Democrats — less than a week away from being forced to negotiate
At the White House, the door that leads to both White House press offices remained locked at 1:30 p.m.; the press office called a travel-photo lid just before 1 p.m., sending the day’s press pool home
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 653 points in a truncated trading day that ended at 1 p.m.
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2018var rcrdTwitter = 1; ….going to be there for three months, and that was seven years ago – we never left.
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018var rcrdTwitter = 1; This is about the Republicans’ far-right flank and Democrats’ far-left faction.
IAD-HNL- IAD pic.twitter.com/Z4pDiM2Z3Z — Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) December 21, 2018var rcrdTwitter = 1; At 7:08 a.m.
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018var rcrdTwitter = 1; Remember When Donald Trump Wanted Mexico To Pay for the Wall?