There is a raging debate about who is responsible for the government shutdown, which has now lasted two days. A key Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham (SC), offered his opinion on Sunday afternoon: the problem is the White House staff. Graham pointed the finger specifically at White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller, who holds extreme views […]
Although the government shutdown might have you thinking that the administration of President Donald Trump is now focused solely on trying to pass a deal that includes a border wall with Mexico, that’s not the case. There’s, in fact, no movement as of Sunday afternoon on any kind of deal that might reopen the government. […]
On Saturday, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign aired an incendiary, unhinged new ad claiming that Democrats who oppose his demand for a border wall “will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants.” It was particularly strange timing given the fact that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) offered to fund the wall in exchange […]
The federal government, as of Sunday morning, remains closed, with no real apparent talks underway to reopen it. On Saturday evening, The New York Times, citing a White House aide, said that President Donald Trump spent the day frustrated and angry, watching videos of himself in 2013 attacking President Obama’s leadership during the shutdown that […]
As North and South Korea continue to make diplomatic inroads at the Winter Olympics in Pyongchang, The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump was mostly concerned about who would get credit for bringing the two Koreas together. President Trump, who on the floor of the United Nations threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea in […]
The next presidential election is almost 3 years from now. The government was shut down on Saturday at midnight and thousands of government employees have been furloughed or are working without pay. President Trump is releasing campaign ads. On Saturday, Trump released an ad through his campaign accusing Democrats that stand in Trump’s way of […]
