Tag: Border

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., walks to a podium to speak during a demonstration against the partial government shutdown on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.

8 Republicans vote to reopen the Treasury Department in test of House GOP unity

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2019 10:11 pm

Record number of families arrested at southern border in December

Anna Giaritelli · January 9, 2019 10:10 pm

A migrant from Honduras looks from the border fence into the U.S. side before jumping to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico.

Rep. Mark Green: Put down the resistance and work with Trump on border security

Rep. Mark Green · January 9, 2019 9:46 pm

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, right, speaks as she stands next to Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, left, following their meeting with President Trump at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.

Pelosi, Schumer botched their rebuttal to Trump, say House Dems

Al Weaver · January 9, 2019 9:39 pm

When will this stop? Trump tweeted. When will we get tough, smart & vigilant? (AP Photo/Darren Abate, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump's trip to the border will be a waste — if he wastes it

Eddie Scarry · January 9, 2019 8:09 pm

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., stand with President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, as Trump speaks while departing after a Senate Republican policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.

Trump says GOP united in shutdown fight, urges them to ‘stick together’

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2019 8:01 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, stand after delivering the Democrats' response to President Trump's address on border security at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.

Pelosi and Schumer rebuttal got higher TV ratings than Trump’s border security address

Anna Giaritelli · January 9, 2019 7:39 pm

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 28: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) reads a statement before questioning U.S. Attorney General William Barr during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Congressional Auditorium at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center July 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. In his first congressional testimony in more than a year, Barr is expected to face questions from the committee about his deployment of federal law enforcement agents to Portland, Oregon, and other cities in response to Black Lives Matter protests; his role in using federal agents to violently clear protesters from Lafayette Square near the White House last month before a photo opportunity for President Donald Trump in front of a church; his intervention in court cases involving Trump's allies Roger Stone and Michael Flynn; and other issues.

Nadler rejects Whitaker’s offer to testify in February, demands hearing this month

Kelly Cohen · January 9, 2019 7:19 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.

Trump on the national emergency option: ‘I may go that route’ to build a border wall

Melissa Quinn · January 9, 2019 6:42 pm

Beltway Confidential

Democrats didn’t need a response to Trump’s immigration address because the media did it for them

Ryan Girdusky · January 9, 2019 6:31 pm

A Transportation Security Administration employee helps air travelers check in at a TSA security checkpoint at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Atlanta.

Pressure: GOP offers to pay federal employees who work during the shutdown

Pete Kasperowicz · January 9, 2019 5:39 pm

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks during a campaign rally in Houston.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick denies ‘rumor’ of Trump job offer after helping write prime-time speech

Daniel Chaitin · January 9, 2019 5:26 pm