Tag: Border

President Trump will meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other lawmakers from New York and New Jersey on Thursday to discuss infrastructure-related projects. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Compromise, dammit!

Quin Hillyer · December 21, 2018 9:47 pm

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks to reporters.

Beltway Confidential

Bob Corker confuses shortsightedness for tyranny

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 21, 2018 9:16 pm

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said a tax cut for small businesses isn't big enough. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Nuking the filibuster right now would be the height of stupidity

Philip Wegmann · December 21, 2018 6:19 pm

En route to a meeting at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, walks with Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, as work continues prior to a Friday night funding deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. Trump is imploring McConnell to change the Senate's rules in order to pass the spending bill with money for a border wall.

Senate GOP pans Trump over call to end the filibuster for border wall

Al Weaver · December 21, 2018 6:07 pm

New GoFundMe effort wants to buy ladders for migrants to climb over crowdfunded border wall

Anna Giaritelli · December 21, 2018 5:49 pm

President Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn before leaving the White House in D.C.

Trump works to shift blame for shutdown to the Democrats

Steven Nelson · December 21, 2018 5:43 pm

From left, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, arrive to speak to reporters ahead of President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Amid reports that Trump has wanted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, McConnell said since he's unaware of any effort, official effort, by the White House to undermine the special counsel, he sees no need to bring up legislation to "protect someone who doesn't need protection."

Senate Republican leaders headed to White House as Trump demands nuclear option to get wall funding

Susan Ferrechio · December 21, 2018 3:18 pm

In this Jan. 14, 2016 photo, U.S. Air Force Sr. Airman (retired) Brian Kolfage, speaks with the media during a 2016 groundbreaking ceremony for a new home he and his family were receiving through the Gary Sinise Foundation's RISE program at Sandestin, Fla. An online fundraiser started by Kolfage to pay for construction of President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall was up to millions of dollars Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018 bringing further attention to an issue that could lead to a government shutdown.

National Security

Triple amputee veteran raising money for border wall: ‘Democrats want this’

Katelyn Caralle · December 21, 2018 3:03 pm

President Trump speaks during an event.

Trump calls for ‘nuclear option’ to ram border wall funding through the Senate

Pete Kasperowicz · December 21, 2018 12:59 pm

President Trump takes the stage at a rally at Alumni Coliseum in Richmond, Ky., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018.

National Security

Trump: ‘Nothing else’ but the wall will secure the border

Katelyn Caralle · December 21, 2018 12:38 pm

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., doesn't support single-payer healthcare. But in a bit of political gamesmanship often seen in Congress, Daines wants to force vulnerable Democratic senators running for re-election in red states in 2018 to take a position on the liberal healthcare policy, which is gaining currency on the Left. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

GOP senator: End the filibuster to pass Trump’s wall money

Pete Kasperowicz · December 21, 2018 12:23 pm

President Trump takes the stage at a rally at Alumni Coliseum in Richmond, Ky., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018.

Trump boosts his 2020 chances with border wall fight

Al Weaver · December 21, 2018 5:00 am