Senators were reaching for a deal overnight Sunday to try to end a two-day-old government shutdown, hoping to prevent the worst of the effects of…
Dreamer shutdown shows power of illegal immigrants
Democrats called it the Trump shutdown. Republicans labeled it the Schumer shutdown. But in reality, it was the Dreamer shutdown. The recipe for the current…
Chuck Schumer blames Donald Trump for government shutdown
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Sunday that President Trump’s rotten deal making and inept leadership caused the “Trump shutdown,” as finger-pointing intensified on…
Report finds ‘chaos’ in Trump’s first travel ban
Homeland Security was “caught by surprise” when President Trump issued his first travel ban last January, the department’s inspector general said in a new report…
Inside the Beltway: Big, bad government shutdown has become a campaign tool
Some wonder if there’s more going on with the government shutdown than a shrill blame game and righteous posturing among Republican and Democratic lawmakers. The…