Tag: Chuck Schumer

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the 2019 March for Life dinner in Washington, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019.

Republican senators give Pence an ‘earful’ during private meeting about shutdown

Anna Giaritelli · January 25, 2019 1:53 am

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, speaks about her oath of office as she stands next to Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, following their meeting.

Beltway Confidential

Shutdown fight highlights missing ingredient that has impeded Trump's agenda

Philip Klein · January 24, 2019 10:13 pm

President Trump speaks to the media before signing anti-human trafficking legislation, Wednesday Jan. 9, 2019, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Behind him are Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, left, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, and Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division.

White House open to short-term shutdown fix if it includes ‘large down payment’ on border wall

Melissa Quinn · January 24, 2019 10:00 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., returns to his office at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. The Senate will vote on two competing proposals this week to end the partial government shutdown, but neither seems to have enough votes to advance.

Democrats block Trump’s plan to end shutdown, fund border wall

Susan Ferrechio · January 24, 2019 8:05 pm

President Donald Trump pauses at the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. Trump is heading to the Army-Navy Football Game in Philadelphia.

What do Democrats care about? Helping people or hurting Trump?

Washington Examiner · January 23, 2019 4:57 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, talks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before his speech at the McConnell Center's Distinguished Speaker Series Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Louisville, Ky.

Senate sets up Thursday votes on doomed plans to reopen the government

Susan Ferrechio · January 22, 2019 9:30 pm

Schumer: Trump using ‘hostage tactics’ in shutdown talks

Al Weaver · January 22, 2019 8:25 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

Immigration compromise leaves Trump walled in

Daniel Chaitin, Naomi Lim · January 21, 2019 6:04 am

Trump campaign sending bricks to Pelosi and Schumer

Caitlin Yilek · January 18, 2019 9:59 pm

House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at DMI Companies in Monongahela, Pa., Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. McCarthy joined with other House Republicans to roll out their "Commitment to America" agenda that he says House Republicans would follow if they take control of the chamber after midterm elections.

Wall-to-wall politics

Jay Caruso · January 18, 2019 5:00 am

Vice President Mike Pence, center, looks on as House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Trump speak during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

As Trump and Pelosi become ever more petulant, they both need to swallow a bitter shutdown pill

Daniel DePetris · January 17, 2019 10:58 pm

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and Russian metals magnate Oleg Deripaska, right, walk to attend the APEC Business Advisory Council dialogue in Danang, Vietnam, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017.

Republicans join Democrats to rebuke Trump on Russia sanction relief

Susan Ferrechio · January 17, 2019 5:51 pm