Tag: Government

President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to respond to a CNN interview with Jay-Z. (AP Photos)

Beltway Confidential

Trump vs. Jay-Z and the truth about black unemployment

Siraj Hashmi · January 29, 2018 3:30 pm

Wait, There Was a Shutdown?

The Scrapbook · January 26, 2018 9:24 am

Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller has been accused of attempting to steer immigration negotiations in a hardline direction as the White House and Congress scramble to reach both an immigration deal and a funding agreement that could reopen the government. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Sarah Sanders calls attacks on Stephen Miller ‘sad and desperate’

Sarah Bedford · January 22, 2018 3:40 pm

There's a debate on how this shutdown reflects on President Trump and his administration, given what he's said in the past about the 2013 government shutdown. His son, Eric Trump, said that the shutdown is good for the administration politically. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s silver lining to the government shutdown

Siraj Hashmi · January 22, 2018 2:26 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan said his greatest frustration with the partial government shutdown is that both parties had been involved in talks about codifying the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program prior to the budget vote late Friday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Watch: Paul Ryan calls out Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin over 2013 government shutdown comments

Anna Giaritelli · January 22, 2018 1:57 pm

The partial government shutdown took effect on Saturday, and while the Senate was trying to find a way forward to pass a bill funding the government, no tangible progress was made, and the Senate was expected to vote at noon to try again. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Thousands of federal workers stay home on first work day of the shutdown

Pete Kasperowicz · January 22, 2018 1:25 pm

The principles of truth, liberty, and justice have formed the underpinning of our national identity. They have defined us as a nation. They have driven us forward even through the darkest days. (iStock Photo)

Rep. Brad Wenstrup: A return to truth, justice, and the American way

Rep. Brad Wenstrup · January 19, 2018 7:28 pm

The Good and the Bad

The Editors · January 19, 2018 9:25 am

The 2013 shutdown tanked public perception of the GOP, and unlike last time, Republicans have the White House - not just both houses of Congress. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Red Alert Politics

Here’s how a government shutdown will impact millennials

Angela Morabito · January 18, 2018 6:15 pm

"We must have Security at our VERY DANGEROUS SOUTHERN BORDER, and we must have a great WALL to help protect us, and to help stop the massive inflow of drugs pouring into our country!" President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning.

Trump: ‘Democrats want to shut down the government over amnesty for all’

Anna Giaritelli · January 16, 2018 2:22 pm

The Princes and the Mullahs

Elliott Abrams · January 5, 2018 9:00 am

The Trump administration is calling on Iran's government to stop blocking Instagram and other popular social media sites as Iranians demonstrate in the streets. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Trump: Iranian protesters ‘will see great support’ from US

Anna Giaritelli · January 3, 2018 1:53 pm