[dropcap]C[/dropcap]APITOL HILL / WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump forced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel a planned trip to Afghanistan and Brussels on Thursday, the latest maneuver in a bitter political battle over the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. In a letter to the speaker of the House, Trump denied Pelosi and members […]
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]APITOL HILL — U .S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proclaimed the country’s southern border with Mexico secure against illegal migration, but said that if opposition Democrats don’t give him the votes to build a border wall he’ll order the U.S. military to do it. In one of a string of Twitter comments, the U.S. leader […]
CAPITOL HILL — Blaming each other for the political deadlock, Republican and Democratic lawmakers closed the first day of a partial shutdown of the U.S. government with few signs of agreement on a spending bill tangled in a fight over immigration. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday night he had scheduled a vote for 1 […]
The United States Senate will resume debate Friday morning on a bill passed by the House of Representatives late Thursday that will fund government operations beyond midnight Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged in a tweet just hours before the debate resumes that Democratic votes are needed to approve the measure. But he suggested Democrats’ […]