Government Shutdown - Page 131

January 23, 2019

Fox News Poll: Voters see shutdown as bigger problem than border situation

Most voters consider the partial government shutdown a major problem or, even worse, an emergency, according to a new Fox News Poll. 

January 23, 2019

Supreme Court hands DACA recipients a gut-wrenching good news-bad news moment. Here's what needs to happen now

Republicans and Democrats in Washington should get serious about a compromise that includes strong border security and a permanent answer for these young people, whose promise and possibility we have now witnessed for years.

January 23, 2019

Maryland church offers help, hugs to workers affected by government shutdown: 'We will all get through it'

A church in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, whose county has the largest concentration of federal employees in the nation, turned its congregation into a center of hope and help for furloughed government workers. 

January 23, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez challenged over claim that shutdown prevents her from opening district office

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez still doesn’t have a regional office, and she says it’s because of the ongoing partial government shutdown. But other New York freshmen lawmakers don't seem to be having the same problem. 

January 23, 2019

Trump unveils new slogan for border wall

President Trump on Wednesday unveiled a new slogan for the border wall as he presses Democrats to agree to funding for the project amid the government shutdown standoff. 

January 23, 2019

GOP strategist blasts Stephen Miller, says ‘Maybe someday he’ll have a relationship with a live human woman’

A Republican strategist laid into the White House's senior policy adviser Stephen Miller on Tuesday during a debate about immigration but took a bizarre ad hominem swipe at Miller.

January 23, 2019

Dem mocked for ignoring slavery, claiming 'never in history' have people worked without pay in US

A Vermont Democrat was forced to apologize Tuesday for ignoring the history of slavery in the U.S. in an effort to promote his bill banning federal workers from working without pay amid the partial government shutdown.

January 23, 2019

Marc Thiessen: Shutdown showdown -- While Democrats pander to their base, Trump shows leadership

Last week, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia offered President Trump some advice on how to end the current border wall standoff. "Always try to find a solution in which both sides come out ahead," Warner told the president. It's good advice. Trump is taking it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., are not.

January 22, 2019

Partial government shutdown turns off taps for many craft breweries

For more than thirty days roughly 7,000 local and independently owned breweries nationwide have been squeezed; new releases placed on hold, interstate shipments halted, and grand openings pushed back.

January 22, 2019

Heck, yes, Trump should give his State of the Union – Let Pelosi, Schumer boycott and show how craven they are

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given President Trump an opportunity to change the dynamic of the State of the Union address, an event that has become predictable and often boring. It has featured members of Congress popping up and down like whack-a-moles, interrupting the president with applause if they agree with him, or stone silence if they don’t.