Tag: Dick Durbin

"There is not likely to be a DACA deal, though we're working every single day on telephone calls and person to person to try to reach this bipartisan agreement. I don't see a government shutdown coming," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Dick Durbin: It’s unlikely we’ll reach a DACA deal, but ‘I don’t see a government shutdown coming’

Josh Siegel · February 4, 2018 2:48 pm

"The Democrats just aren't calling about DACA," Trump tweeted late Thursday night. "[House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi and [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer have to get moving fast, or they'll disappoint you again. We have a great chance to make a deal or, blame the Dems! March 5th is coming up fast." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump: Blame Democrats who ‘just aren’t calling’ if DACA fix isn’t reached in time

Diana Stancy Correll · February 2, 2018 5:32 am

Demonstrators urging the Democratic Party to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act program. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Democrats think ‘chain migration’ is a racist term — but they said it themselves in October

Angela Morabito · February 1, 2018 10:03 pm

"The $1.5 trillion kind of sucked the oxygen out of the room," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said as he exited the House chamber after President Trump's address. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Trump stuns Congress with infrastructure price tag

Susan Ferrechio · January 31, 2018 4:37 am

President Trump will speak to a joint session of Congress Tuesday at his first State of the Union address. (Jim Lo Scalzo / Associated Press)

4 big ways Democrats plan to protest Trump’s State of the Union

Laura Barrón-López · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump sent a letter earlier in the week to African leaders expressing his desire for "strong and respectful relationships" with African countries, it was reported on Saturday. The letter follows allegations that Trump referred to African and other immigrants as being from "shithole countries" earlier in January. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he ‘deeply respects’ African nations in wake of ‘shithole’ remark controversy

John Siciliano · January 27, 2018 5:15 pm

President Trump is taking heat from both sides of the immigration debate, from Republicans who don't want to see too much amnesty and Democrats who don't want to see too many changes to border security as they do in his most recent proposal. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump’s immigration tug-of-war

W. James Antle III · January 27, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., put forth a bipartisan immigration proposal with Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill. It was nixed by the White House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ann Coulter: Why does Lindsey Graham have a ‘seat at the table at all on immigration negotiations?’

Mandy Mayfield · January 27, 2018 3:48 am

After the government shutdown ended, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., (pictured right) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., both signaled that they were against President Trump's new immigration plan on their internet pages. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats side with immigrants in border battle with Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · January 26, 2018 7:33 pm

"Well, they scheduled the meeting to brief the Four Whips group on their immigration plan," Dick Durbin's spokesman Ben Marter told the Washington Examiner. "The [White House] said that 'given the rollout yesterday' they are holding off for now, but I note that we haven't received a single page of their plan except through news reports." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke File)

Democrats say White House canceled immigration meeting with lawmakers

Sarah Bedford · January 26, 2018 7:27 pm

President Trump could go down in history as someone who improbably broke an immigration stalemate. Or it could be the latest immigration reform disappointment. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

5 traps that could doom Trump’s immigration plan

W. James Antle III · January 26, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said in response to President Trump's immigration plan: "Dreamers should not be held hostage to President Trump's crusade to tear families apart and waste billions of American tax dollars on an ineffective wall." (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Dick Durbin: Trump holding Dreamers ‘hostage’ with immigration plan

Pete Kasperowicz · January 26, 2018 1:23 am