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Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York on Monday night said any spending bill with that much wall funding “can’t pass either chamber of Congress.”
Parks have been closed due to staff furloughs, though the administration has begun using fee collections to re-start services such as trash collection and restroom cleanup, according to a letter Sunday
“The Democratic leadership in the House and Senate informed us there’d be no negotiation until the federal government was open,” Pence said in his ceremonial office across the street from the White
[jwp-video n=”1″] The role of his conservative base, without whom his chances of winning re-election are almost zero, cannot be underplayed in the shutdown standoff.
Pence before Christmas offered over $2 billion for the wall and another $400 million for other border security tools to Senate Democrats.
Saturday tweets appears, yet again, aimed directly at the president’s core conservative supporters who fiercely want a border wall and despite Democratic leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate
Pat Roberts announced Friday that he would not run for re-election in 2020, launching what is expected to be a competitive Republican primary for his seat.
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said staffs of congressional leaders and the president will negotiate over the weekend in hopes of ending the partial government shutdown.
At one point, the president confirmed something Senate Minority Leader Charles E.
Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin said Thursday that he intends to run for re-election in 2020.
After swearing-in the newly elected and re-elected senators on the Senate floor just after noon on Thursday as outlined in the Constitution, Vice President Mike Pence made his way to the Old Senate
over the next two years as House Democrats define how far left their caucus will tilt heading into the 2020 cycle and decide whether there’s any room to cooperate with President Donald Trump as he seeks re-election
She has one of the most progressive voting records in the Senate since joining the chamber in 2013. Warren won re-election by 24 points in November over Republican challenger Geoff Diehl.
And he and his aides made clear she will be a focal point of his expected 2020 re-election campaign.
Pat Roberts presided over the Senate for a brief four-minute session Thursday, with the prayer by Senate Chaplain Barry Black alluding to the gravity of the shutdown.
“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
Notably, Trump declined to say whether he might accept $2 billion for his border barrier to re-open part of the federal government.
Unfortunately, we’re still very far apart,” a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said Saturday evening, referring to VP Mike Pence.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said again Saturday that any deal that would re-open the Justice, Homeland security, Agriculture, Interior and other departments will have to be negotiated by Trump
Renacci lost his bid for the Senate and now leaves Congress with an estimated net worth of $34 million. In New Jersey, Rep. Tom MacArthur lost a tightly contested race to Democrat Andy Kim.