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The budget standoff between President Trump and Congress has now entered its third week. The House won’t pass a spending bill that gives Trump the $5.6 billion he wants for his wall, or indeed any money for it. Trump won’t sign a bill that doesn’t contain it. The resulting partial government shutdown is only now reaching the point at which it is starting to hurt, where essential government personnel are…

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not meet with U.S. national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday, while telegraphing a widening rift between the NATO allies that leaves the Trump administration’s plans to withdraw troops from Syria in limbo. In a speech to parliament, Erdogan said that Bolton had made a “serious mistake” in calling for a new condition for the U.S. exit from Syria. Bolton has…

China’s economy is showing signs of extreme stress, and not just because of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Economic data is showing that China’s debt problems are gobbling up cash faster than more Chinese people can become consumers. To change this narrative and calm markets, China will have to make a deal with Trump by March 1. The deal will likely be a sham. But the best outcome for China…

President Trump’s border wall prototypes are seen from Tijuana in Baja California state, Mexico, on Monday. Trump has said he may invoke emergency powers to build a border wall if Congress doesn’t agree to his demand for funding. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images President Trump’s border wall prototypes are seen from Tijuana in Baja California state, Mexico, on Monday. Trump has said he may invoke…

CNN host Jake Tapper laughed in Mick Mulvaney’s face today after the acting White House chief of staff insisted that “nobody blames the president” for debasing politics. On Sunday’s State of the Union, Tapper and Mulvaney discussed Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) using swear words to discuss a potential impeachment and Trump’s reaction. “President Trump obviously is not exactly known as a delicate flower when it comes to the language. He’s sworn…

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Politics Since first threatening a government shutdown last month in his battle with Congress over border wall funding, President Donald Trump has leaned heavily on Twitter to rally support among his followers. So far, the strategy seems to be working. That, however, doesn’t bode well for a quick resolution to the standoff. With a partial government shutdown now in its third week, the White…

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, Vice President Mike Pence, White House legislative affairs aide Ja’Ron Smith, followed by White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, and others, walk down the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office building, on the White House complex, after a meeting with staff members of House and Senate leadership, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON – White House officials and congressional aides…

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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he may call a national emergency to build border wall O’Rourke signals support for ‘concept’ of Green New Deal Supreme Court to take up gerrymandering cases MORE said Saturday that he wants to end the partial government shutdown that is stretching into its third week while reiterating his claim that most of the federal workers being furloughed or forced to work without pay are Democrats….

“I reject your facts,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, reportedly said to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a border-security meeting this week. “These aren’t my facts,” Nielsen reportedly responded. “These are the facts.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen got into a tense confrontation this week, with the California Democrat interrupting Nielsen’s presentation on border security and illegal immigration, telling her “I reject your facts.” The…

Unfortunately for the excitable freshmen Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is the one calling the shots. Cute as they are, their demands that President Trump be impeached look like they’re going nowhere because of her. Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., told supporters Thursday, “We’re gonna go in and impeach the motherfucker!” In anticipation of this exact kind of lunacy, Pelosi, in all her political wisdom, appointed Rep. Jerry Nadler,…

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers assist travelers with luggage through a security screening area during a partial federal government shutdown Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state. (Associated Press) A Department of Homeland Security spokesman lashed out at CNN on Friday, labeling as “fake news” the network’s report that hundreds of Transportation Security Administration screeners at the nation’s airports have been staging a “sick out” this…

(Kitco News) – Gold remains under pressure Friday but is off its lows following what some economists have deemed as dovish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Speaking at the American Economic Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta, Powell struck an optimistic tone for 2019, saying that he expects to see labor-market strength continue into 2019. However, he added that the central bank is paying attention to…

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A top Senate Republican warned Thursday the nearly two-week partial shutdown could go on for “months and months” as a resolution to the impasse between President Trump and congressional Democrats over border security grows more elusive. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that he is not optimistic that a deal could be struck between the two sides, after a White House meeting Wednesday between Trump…

Democratic leaders are negotiating in bad faith, against good policy, and to lamentable results in the current border-wall-funding theater on Capitol Hill. Set aside for now the realities that President Trump has played his pro-wall poker hand incredibly ineptly, that conservatives in general have badly overstated the relative importance of immigration-related policy, and that the Trumpian Right has cultishly turned “The Wall” into an item of absurdly talismanic significance. Those…

If President Trump is afraid of the headache new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is about to give him, he should say the first prayer of his life and thank God it’s her, not him, who has to deal with the incoming House Democrat freshmen. The Washington Post over the last few days has done magnificent reporting on the political cramps Democrats are suffering before the new Congress is even…

Democratic leaders are negotiating in bad faith, against good policy, and to lamentable results in the current border-wall-funding theater on Capitol Hill. Set aside for now the realities that President Trump has played his pro-wall poker hand incredibly ineptly, that conservatives in general have badly overstated the relative importance of immigration-related policy, and that the Trumpian Right has cultishly turned “The Wall” into an item of absurdly talismanic significance. Those…

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