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Law and Government
Pelosi delays critical infrastructure vote as bill’s fate remains in jeopardy
Congress must also pass a government funding bill before Friday to prevent a shutdown, and it has until mid to late October…
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National Security
Congress reaches tentative deal that includes a paltry $1.375B for wall
The agreement means 55 miles (88 kilometers) of new fencing — constructed through existing designs such as metal slats instead…
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Law and Government
Trump accuses Dems of pushing for another gov’t shutdown to distract from ‘very bad week’
Republican Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, a key member of the committee, revealed on Sunday morning that negotiations have hit a…
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Politics
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Unyielding
Dems voted down three separate GOP efforts to pay federal workers during shutdown
Day after day the leftist media and congressional Democrats trafficked in tales of suffering endured unpaid federal workers. But when…
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Law and Government
Quote of the Day: ‘Hopefully, now the president has learned his lesson’
For the duration of the shutdown, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were intractable and obstinate. Pelosi in particular bemoaned the…
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Politics
Trump caves on shutdown … kind of
As The Washington Examiner reported a short time ago, Trump 'agreed to [sic] temporarily end the government shutdown without any…
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Law and Government
Could Trump build wall without state of emergency or congressional approval?
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a paper internally that suggests President Donald Trump may have the authority to…
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Media
Tom Brokaw slams freshman Dems for holding ‘pep rallies’ instead of ending shutdown
If you’re under the impression that the socialist darling of the party is going to heed advice from Brokaw, who…
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Law and Government
Government shutdown causing tens of thousands of immigration hearings to be canceled
The lack of funding has resulted in approximately 43,000 immigration court hearing cancellations. The situation is only worsening, with an additional 20,000…
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Politics
Pelosi has gone ‘all in’ on gov’t shutdown: Will her gamble pay off?
When Donald Trump announced that he would be delivering an Oval Office address on the border crisis in primetime, Nancy…
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Unyielding
Porn site reports increase in traffic in D.C. during government shutdown
It's unclear whether it's a function of correlation, causation, or just pure coincidence. Could it be that furloughed government workers…
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Politics
Was Trump’s cancellation of Pelosi’s trip abroad dirty pool?
While Trump's behavior does seem like a quid pro quo following Pelosi's postponement of his State of the Union address,…
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Politics
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Politics
Pelosi’s latest objection to wall: It’s ‘a luxury our country can’t afford’
But what about Pelosi's secondary argument: that erecting a wall during a government shutdown would a needless extravagance while government…
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Law and Government
Trump’s shutdown differs greatly from Obama’s: Here are a few ways how
‘What the marching orders in the last administration were was to weaponize the shutdown, to make it as painful as…
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Law and Government
GOP rep introduces bill to withhold congressional pay during government shutdowns
Daines’s introduction of the bill, sponsored by Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn, comes hours after Daines announced he sent a…
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Law and Government
Road to Oregon’s Crater Lake closed due to ‘human waste buildup’ during gov’t shutdown
Does a nature lover crap in the woods? He does if he's on the way to visit Crater Lake National…
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Politics
Yet another Guatemalan migrant child dies after crossing border illegally
The highlighted passages reveal a pattern of vigilant care on the part of the border patrol and — in the last…
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Law and Government
Schumer: Republicans must ‘abandon’ wall in order to reopen government
‘I want to be crystal clear — there will be no additional appropriations to pay for the border wall,’ Schumer…
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Politics
Ocasio-Cortez’s latest: Congress’s salaries should be furloughed during next gov’t shutdown
Is this the same Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who a few weeks ago was whining, falsely as it turns out, that she couldn’t…
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Politics
Trump appears to back down on demand for $5 billion border wall
'There are certainly a number of different funding sources that we’ve identified that we can use, that we can couple…
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Law and Government
Angry DACA supporters protest all night outside Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home
Schumer has been feeling the heat from his party and constituents ever since the #SchumerShutdown became the #SchumerSurrender.
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Media
Tinseltown mouth breather Rob Reiner joins the chorus that blames shutdown on racism
I don't know but amid all the discussion of the word sh*thole over the past week, the phrase browning of…
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Law and Government
Schumer’s claim of having agreed to border wall in exchange for DACA support is a lie
To listen to the sob story Sen. Chuck Schumer told on the Senate floor on Saturday, he was the voice…
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Media
Wait, what? NYT, AP, Bloomberg, legacy media blame Dems for gov’t shutdown
Many of the nation's top media outlets are reporting that the Democratic Party has allowed the government to shutdown.
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Law and Government
Which top Dem argued in 2013 it would be chaos’ to shut down government over amnesty for illegals?
Democrats this morning are calling it the #TrumpShutdown, while Republicans — including the White House — are calling it the…
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National Security
Dems think 800K illegal immigrants are worth forcing active military to go without pay
Democrats are threatening to hold national security hostage.
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Law and Government
Grinch roll call: Here are the senators who voted to shut down the government before Christmas
Most of the nay votes were from Democrats who are desperate to deal with immigration issues.
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Law and Government
The House Freedom Caucus and the virtues of intransigence
Picking your battles doesn't mean never fighting.
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