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Shutdown Day 17: White House, Dems disagree on definition of ‘negotiating’
and Sunday without authorization to negotiate.
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and Sunday without authorization to negotiate.
“I don’t think I’ll have to,” he said over the hum of Marine One engines on the South Lawn.
Until then, I cannot take a salary knowing that so many federal workers in Nevada and across the country will go without pay.”
During the Oval Office meeting, the president said the agents “basically said — and I think I can take the word ‘basically’ out: ‘Without a wall, you cannot have border security.
“I did say that,” Trump said when asked to confirm his fellow New Yorker’s contention. But in almost the next breath, he said: “I hope it doesn’t go on, even beyond a few more days.”
“Without a wall, you cannot have border security.
“I have rarely seen members this angry about anything. Because it’s personal,” said then-Rep. Joseph Crowley, a New York Democrat.
“Thirteen days that nine of fifteen federal departments and dozens of agencies have shut their doors,” said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont.
“I think he’s a person who is oblivious to the real world,” Reid said of the president.
time on,” Reynolds said.
A congressional aide said Department of Homeland Security officials are supposed to conduct the briefing but it could get canceled because not all of the leaders are back in town yet.
“I have given up trying to understand the president’s ‘Art of the Deal’ negotiating strategy,” said G. William Hoagland, a former senior aide to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
But without a cohort, there’s no way to tell if it was a normal pattern. Which leads to our favorite word: cohort. It’s bound to be a better ride.
evening, all [National Flood Insurance Program] insurers have been directed to resume normal operations immediately and advised that the program will be considered operational since December 21, 2018 without
“I can’t tell you when the government is going to re-open,” he told reporters on Tuesday, adding he will not sign any spending bill to end the crisis until “we have a wall, a fence, whatever they
[LIVE BLOG: Shutdown Countdown — Here’s the Latest] “It is all about — and I say this in any way they want to hear it — it’s all about ‘America first,’” Trump said, appearing to refer to his conservative
It’s like the wheel, there is nothing better,” Trump said, revealing his black-and-white thinking on the matter.
“I think he’s well aware of my position, and I don’t know that you can ignore the fact that we’re strongly encouraging him to veto it,” said House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, who was briefly
I’ve been campaigning on it for years, and six months ago, when I very publicly wanted to do it, I agreed to stay longer,” he wrote in a tweet.
Pelosi attempted to bring the “clean” continuing resolution — without the additional border wall funding that President Donald Trump is insisting be included — to the floor as a privileged resolution.