Category: Government

Senate Republicans blocked a stopgap measure to end the partial shutdown on Thursday, the second of two failed efforts to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Senators voted 52-44 on the legislation, falling short of the 60 votes needed to defeat a filibuster. GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Cory Gardner […]

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday subpoenaed Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, confirmed to NBC News. The move comes a day after Cohen delayed his public testimony before the House Oversight Committee over alleged “ongoing threats against his family from President Trump” and members of his […]

President Donald Trump took office January 20, 2017.  The Fox News Poll checked in with voters about how things are going for the administration after two years.  Here are six takeaways. Forty-one percent of voters rate the economy positively (excellent or good), which is better than the 33 percent who felt that way when President […]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took no action Tuesday on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a move that requires the government to keep the program going for at least 10 more months. The Trump administration urged the justices to hear appeals of lower court rulings that prevent the government from […]

The White House is still planning to move ahead with next week’s scheduled State of the Union address, but the details remain up in the air after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strongly urged the president to delay the speech or submit it in writing amid the government shutdown fight. According to multiple sources, it remains unclear […]

Anticipation is building for special counsel Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE’s report, bringing to boil a debate over whether it will also be made public. The report took center stage at attorney general nominee William Barr’s confirmation hearing last week, where Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee […]

President Donald Trump lit into Democrats — and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in particular — in a Sunday tweetstorm in which he appeared to threaten to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants living in the United States and defended his proposal to end the partial government shutdown. That offer, which Trump presented Saturday in a White […]

President Trump, in a televised White House address Saturday, offered Democrats a compromise package on immigration in an effort to end the nearly monthlong partial government shutdown — although some prominent Democrats were dismissing the olive branch as a “non-starter” before Trump even spoke. Trump announced that he was prepared to back a three-year extension of protections for […]

President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen responds to the Wall Street Journal report, tweeting he acted ‘at the direction of and for the sole benefit’ of Trump and that he regrets his ‘blind loyalty.’ Michael Cohen, the president’s former fixer who was recently sentenced to three years in prison, leveled a new allegation Thursday at […]

President Trump will meet with a top North Korean official Friday afternoon in the Oval Office, the White House confirmed. The face-to-face comes after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Kim Yong-chol, North Korea’s lead negotiator, in the nation’s capital early Friday morning to negotiate terms that could lead to a second nuclear summit between […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump should either delay his State of the Union address or submit it in writing, Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote Wednesday in a letter citing the security burdens that the annual address to a joint session of Congress would place on a partially shuttered federal government. “Sadly, given the security concerns and […]

Congressional Democrats on Tuesday rejected President Trump’s invitation to a lunch meeting at the White House to discuss border security, in the latest sign that both sides of the government shutdown standoff remain entrenched in their positions with no compromise in sight. A senior administration official told Fox News that the president had invited Democrats […]