Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:59:58 +0000
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “unhappy” with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance construction of more barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but he didn’t say he wouldn’t sign the measure.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:59:58 +0000
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “unhappy” with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance construction of more barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but he didn’t say he wouldn’t sign the measure.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:13:51 +0000
Republicans have vilified Nancy Pelosi for years as a San Francisco liberal and now they’re trying to portray her as a captive of resurgent left-wingers in her Democratic Party. But in her early moves so far as House speaker, Pelosi is displaying her pragmatic streak.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:28:44 +0000
Federal employees are turning on office lights and computers and reopening national parks and museums for the first time in weeks, but others employed by government contractors face still more uncertainty over when they’ll resume work or whether they’ll ever be paid for time lost to the stalemate over President Donald Trump’s border wall.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:27:34 +0000
As the shutdown dragged through its fifth week, another missed paycheck loomed for hundreds of thousands of workers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 08:59:05 +0000
In a bid to break the shutdown stalemate, President Donald Trump offered to extend temporary protections for young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children and those fleeing disaster zones in exchange for his long-promised border wall. But while Trump cast the move as a “common-sense compromise,” Democrats were quick to dismiss it as a “non-starter.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 14:17:35 +0000
Former President George W. Bush treated his Secret Service detail to pizza to show his appreciation for their service without paychecks during the partial government shutdown.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 08:30:05 +0000
President Donald Trump said he’ll be making a “major announcement” on the government shutdown and the southern border on Saturday afternoon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:03:53 +0000
The number of furloughed federal employees seeking unemployment benefits jumped in the first two weeks of the shutdown.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:53:15 +0000
With the partial shutodwn of the U.S. federal government in its fourth week, Washington, D.C., is littered with shutdown specials — offering furloughed federal employees discounts on everything from food and drink to live theater and medical marijuana .
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