President Donald Trump accused Democratic leadership on Sunday of orchestrating a government shutdown to distract attention away from the current news cycle that has been beneficial to the Republican party. “I don’t think the Dems on the Border Committee are being allowed by their leaders to make a deal,” Trump tweeted. “They are offering very […] More
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) celebrated the end of the partial government shutdown on Friday by sitting down with leftist media commentators and bragging about manipulating President Donald Trump into agreeing on a temporary reopening to allow negotiations over a border wall to take place. The Daily Beast praised Pelosi — including referring to a CNN story […] More
A new report by a statistics professor at Washington University in St. Louis estimates that the 35-day partial government shutdown cost seven times more than the $5.7 billion that President Donald Trump requested for a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Liberty Vittert, who is also an ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society, writesthat estimates for […] More
The general media consensus is that President Donald Trump “lost” the showdown with Democrats over the wall because of the fact that he reopened the government until Feb. 15. Take the first paragraph of a New York Times story, which strongly intimated the president would face a primary challenge: “President Trump’s defeat in his border-wall standoff with […] More
On Friday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke with a Fox News reporter in his office at the Capitol. During the exchange between Graham and the Fox News reporter, the senator made several critical points regarding the battle over border wall funding that’s taking place between President Trump and Democratic leadership. First, Graham stated that this […] More
President Donald Trump pushed back on Twitter Friday evening on the narrative that he had conceded by reopening the government without getting funding for the border wall. Trump tweeted, “I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall. This was in no way a concession. It was taking care of […] More
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer mocked President Donald Trump on Friday immediately after the president ended the government shutdown so non-essential federal employees could get paid and so both of the nation’s major parties could work on a deal to fund border security. Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a press conference following Trump’s announcement that […] More
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service released a paper internally that suggests President Donald Trump may have the authority to use Department of Defense resources to build a border wall without obtaining congressional approval or declaring a state of emergency. CRS, Congress’s in-house research arm, internally published a paper Jan. 10 titled “Can the Department of […] More
Wednesday while addressing the United States Conference of Mayors, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump is holding the “American people hostage” to a “campaign applause line.” Pelosi was referring to the audience at campaign rallies cheering for Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Pelosi said, “Sadly, with this […] More
On January 8th, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded that Donald Trump “defend” funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If you’re a regular reader, you may remember that I pointed out she had voted to fund ICE just a week prior. I wasn’t alone. Various outlets made the case that it was clearly hypocritical to trash the President for funding […] More
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) may be stubbornly refusing to come to the bargaining table on immigration — or in any capacity — but she appears to be slowly losing the faith of her Democratic colleagues. Rep. Steny Hoyer, (D-MD), the second most powerful Democrat in the House next to Pelosi, told Fox News on Tuesday that he […] More
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to President Donald Trump’s Wednesday letter to her that he would hold his State of the Union address as originally planned on January 29 by telling the president that she “will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing” his address until he reopens the government. Pelosi’s letter to Trump comes an […] More
