January 15, 2019 Coast Guard misses paycheck, marking first time service members not paid during a shutdown For the first time in U.S. history, a service members in a U.S. Armed Force will not be paid, due to the now-25 day partial government shutdown.
January 15, 2019 We're in a partial government shutdown, so what's it like to visit Grand Canyon right now? Let me tell you… The Grand Canyon National Park is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a partial government shutdown.
January 15, 2019 Democrats boycott White House border security meeting Congressional Democrats on Tuesday rejected President Trump's invitation to a lunch meeting at the White House to discuss border security, in the latest sign that both sides of the government shutdown standoff remain entrenched in their positions with no compromise in sight.
January 15, 2019 Trump doubles down on border wall, as polls show voters turning against his shutdown strategy President Trump used an address Monday to the American Farm Bureau convention to dig in on his call for a border wall, even as new polling indicates most Americans oppose his administration’s strategy of demanding money for the U.S.-Mexico barrier in exchange for ending the partial government shutdown.
January 15, 2019 Trump suggests Pelosi should stop getting a paycheck amid shutdown President Trump clashed anew with Nancy Pelosi over the partial government shutdown on Tuesday, questioning whether the House speaker should continue getting paid while the standoff drags on -- as Pelosi accused the president of holding the paychecks of hundreds of thousands of federal workers “hostage.”
January 15, 2019 Trump says ‘drone flying around’ will not stop new migrant caravan: ‘Only a Wall’ President Trump said Tuesday that a “drone flying around” will not stop the new migrant caravan that is moving from Central America toward the U.S. border with Mexico, doubling down on his claims that “Only a Wall will work.”
January 15, 2019 Doug Schoen: If Trump wants to have even a chance of winning in 2020, he needs to end the shutdown now Despite his later attempts to shift the blame to Democratic congressional leaders, Americans continue to blame President Trump for the shutdown.
January 14, 2019 Amid partial government shutdown, restaurants and breweries aid federal workers, send beer to lawmakers As the partial government shutdown continues, restaurants and food purveyors are stepping up to help feed furloughed employees and bring lawmakers together to strike a deal.
January 14, 2019 Trump misfires, tweets American Farm Bureau speech in wrong city President Trump promoted his upcoming speech to the American Farm Bureau’s annual convention on social media Monday – but tagged the wrong city.
January 14, 2019 Longest-ever government shutdown sees no end – and no compromise – in sight If the shutdown is ever going to end, President Trump, alongside congressional Democrats and Republicans, must do as their political forefathers did and compromise. It’s unclear how and when that might happen.
