The majority leader’s allies say he’s not being pressured to change his stance on standing with Trump. A handful of Senate Republicans are expressing frustration with their party’s handling of the ongoing government shutdown. But Mitch McConnell is a long way from facing any sort of rebellion. The Senate majority …
Miami International Airport announced it would close one of its terminals for three days because an increasing number of Transportation Security Administration employees are refusing to continue to work without pay during the partial government shutdown. An airport spokesman told the Miami Herald that the security checkpoint at Terminal G would be closed beginning …
The Trump administration’s shutdown was planned about as well as everything else Trump has done. The Trump administration’s shutdown of the federal government over the last two weeks is a synecdoche for the way it has run the federal government over the last two years. They blundered into it almost …
A president trapped by his own laziness and ignorance flails hopelessly. In a short, uncharacteristically non-meandering speech to the nation from the Oval Office punctuated by loud sniffing, President Trump depicted illegal immigration as an urgent crisis. In place of cogent policy arguments, Trump substituted his familiar anecdotes about immigrants …
As the partial government shutdown extends into its third week, the Department of Agriculture won’t say how long it can keep paying out food stamp benefits for the nearly 39 million people who depend on the program each month. The White House and House Democrats, locked in a bitter political …
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Congress can’t agree on what Trump’s wall is, because Trump can’t admit what it’s for. As America’s government shutdown enters its sixth day, the debate in Congress has turned metaphysical. Now, it looks like 420,000 federal workers will have to get by without paychecks until our nation’s (philistinic excuse for) …
The Senate rules make no sense. President Trump initially presented his plan to shut down the federal government as a hopelessly misconceived gambit to force Democrats to fund his border wall. But now he is presenting it as something slightly different: a gambit to force Republicans to change the rules of the Senate to …
In the line of succession, House Speaker John Boehner is the third-ranking official in the country. For practical purposes, he has all but disappeared as a leader. That failure is pushing the country toward the financial brink. Boehner’s collapse as speaker has been sad to watch. Unable to control his …
If the House and Senate can’t agree on a government funding bill by Sept. 30, the federal government will shut down. And, right now, the House and Senate can’t agree on a bill. They’re wrangling over Obamacare. The photograph is cleverly shot to make it look like the gates of the federal …
Early this year, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, made headlines by telling his fellow Republicans that they needed to stop being the “stupid party.” Unfortunately, Mr. Jindal failed to offer any constructive suggestions about how they might do that. And, in the months that followed, he himself proceeded to …