OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 6:34 AM PT — Friday, January 17, 2019
The new migrant caravan from Central America has crossed Mexico’s southern border, marking a milestone in its mission to reach the United States.
On Thursday, Mexican authorities said nearly 1000 migrants crossed into Ciudad Hidalgo, where they began the process to obtain humanitarian visas.
President Trump responded to the reports of
Doubts are surfacing on whether Michael Cohen will testify before Congress next month. On Thursday, one of Cohen’s advisers said he’s reconsidering the idea, citing safety concerns for himself and his family.
The House Oversight Committee called on him to testify last week in one of their first orders of business since
Derek Hunter| Contributor
On the Friday edition of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast, we cover the latest drama out of DC — the congressional trip that wasn’t.
President Donald Trump canceling the Democrats’ seven-day trip to Europe and the Middle East because they should be in town negotiating an end to the government shutdown was met with clutched pearls by Democrats and the media. This came only a day after they all cheered Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to cancel the State of the Union address. Hypocrisy much?
Benny Johnson | Columnist, Viral Politics
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and a select group of congressional Democrats were boarded on a military charter bus bound for Andrews Air Force Base to catch a military charter jet to Europe were forced to turn around Thursday when President Donald Trump officially postponed the trip.
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
President Donald Trump is insistent he will emerge victorious in a fight with Democratic lawmakers over funding for the border wall while his advisers have increasingly warned him of the partial government shutdown’s ramifications, sources familiar with the situation tell The Daily Caller.
Trump has told confidants in recent days that he is determined to secure some sort of concession from Democratic lawmakers for border barrier funding, even if it means a prolonged partial government shutdown, two sources familiar with the president’s thinking told TheDC. Trump is particularly incensed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s public
Amber Athey | White House Correspondent
President Donald Trump postponed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned international travel over the partial government shutdown on Thursday.
Trump sent a letter to Pelosi informing her that she would not be allowed to use military aircraft to travel to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan for a “public relations event” during the shutdown. The president added that Pelosi would be allowed to fly commercial to make the trip if she so chooses.
Air Force veteran and triple amputee Brian Kolfage, the man behind the viral GoFundMe page to raise money for President Trump’s border wall, said he’s received $7 million from donors for his new idea to privately fund building the wall.
“Our donors gave to us to get the job done, and they trust us to do so,” Kolfage said, confirming the amount, reported CBS News on Jan. 17. He later said the figure was his “guess.”
Ted Cruz posted a new video of himself explaining how to pay for the wall without taxpayer money.
You may have heard of the idea before – he calls it the El Chapo act.
Watch:
Cruz makes a prediction in the video that even though this won’t cost the taxpayers a dime, that Democrats won’t vote for it because they politically don’t really want to secure the border. I
Senate Democrats and 11 Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday to advance a measure which would prevent the Treasury Department from relaxing sanctions on Russian companies connected to Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch with ties to the Kremlin.
House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) proposed the resolution to oppose President Donald Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on those firms, CNN reported.
Schumer forced the vote under a provision of the 2017 Russia sanctions law, which allows lawmakers to
Amber Athey | White House Correspondent
President Donald Trump reassured state and local leaders during a briefing call on border security Tuesday that he is not planning on backing down on his demands for border wall funding.
A source on the phone call told The Daily Caller that the