The US’s partial federal government shutdown, sparked after Donald Trump refused to sign a Congressional funding bill that didn’t include money for a border wall, is now in its 18th day, making it the longest since 1995.
Donald Trump will speak tonight in his first official Oval Office address, to address US immigration issues and his demands to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
As Donald Trump’s presidency ends its second year, the US has failed to spend most of the money already allocated for a wall on the Mexico border or build a single foot of new wall there.
US vice president Mike Pence, Congressional leaders, presidential advisor Jared Kushner, and the Secretary of Homeland Security will meet this weekend to try to hammer out a spending bill to end the US government shutdown, which is heading into its second week.
After eight years of Republican rule in the House of Representatives, Democrats officially took over on Thursday (Jan. 3) in a swearing-in ceremony that was marked by boisterous cheers and a public outpouring of support for new speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose leadership was challenged by younger members in recent weeks.
The big year-ahead question looming in Washington right now is a simple but brutal one: Will Donald Trump’s presidency survive 2019?
Donald Trump flew to Iraq’s Al-Asad Air Base on Dec. 26 for a surprise visit to US soldiers in a combat zone for the first time during his two-year presidency.
Updated Dec. 26 at 3:15pm ET with details of the Trumps’ trip to Iraq.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis was unstinting in his criticism of Donald Trump in the damning, carefully written resignation letter delivered to the White House yesterday (Dec. 20). His main takeaway? Trump’s worldview threatens the global order that supports the US’s “security, prosperity and values,” and the president’s stance is incompatible with his own.
Updated on Dec. 21 with details of Nielsen’s Congressional testimony.
Donald Trump has trashed relationships with the US’s closest allies the past year, insulted foreign leaders, scorned decades-old alliances in overseas meetings, and undermined global regulatory bodies.
US secretary of Defense James Mattis has resigned, and will be departing the government at the end of February, he told Donald Trump in a letter, 48 hours after Trump unexpectedly said that the US military would exit the Syrian civil war.
Donald Trump’s decision on Dec. 19 to pull US troops out of Syria wasn’t vetted by the Pentagon, the State Department, Congress, or US allies, and his rationale for it is false, foreign policy experts and military veterans say.
Updated Dec. 19 at 1:30pm EST with a statement from the Trump Organization.
It was just a week ago that Donald Trump proclaimed he would be “proud” to shut down the government by Dec. 21 if he didn’t get money from Congress to build the border wall with Mexico he promised voters.
The White House and congressional Democrats appear to be on a collision course ahead of the Dec. 21 deadline to keep the federal government running. No one can be sure of the outcome, but there are three key things that could point to what it may be.
The Trump White House is determined to shut down the government on Dec. 21, in an attempt to get funding for a border wall with Mexico. So what happens to federal services if the government closes for business?
Donald Trump could be spending up to 16 days at Mar-a-Lago over the holidays, an alert issued by the Federal Aviation Administration indicates. If he spends the full time there, it will be the US president’s longest stay at the Florida members-only resort Trump owns since he took office in January 2017.
The US government is edging closer to a shutdown before Christmas, and the Senate faces a tough vote today over whether to continue funding the Saudi Arabia-led coalition that’s caused hundreds of thousands to starve in Yemen. But the most recent White House news is all about the wall Donald Trump wants to build between the US and Mexico, and the ongoing fallout from a New York investigation into Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen.
First daughter and US presidential adviser Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, vacationed at a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic over a long weekend in August. The cost to US taxpayers: more than $58,000.
Donald Trump is threatening once again to shut down the US government if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall between the US and Mexico. An animated spat with presumed incoming speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority leader Charles Schumer at the White House this morning (Dec. 11.), shows how unlikely he is to get what he wants.
Maria Butina, a Russian graduate student in the US, is expected to plead guilty this week to charges related to being a spy for the Kremlin, which could reveal closer ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Russia, and the National Rifle Association.
Update, Dec. 12: Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison.
William P. Barr, the former attorney general under George H. W. Bush, could be returning to his old job, after Donald Trump nominated him today (Dec. 7) to fill the position held by Jeff Sessions.
