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
A pro-immigration enforcement organization says the Trump administration deserves praise for deporting criminals back to their home countries.
Soon after taking office in 2017, President Trump put pressure on countries with an executive order: no more visas if they refuse to take back dangerous criminals.
At the end of the Obama presidency, 23 countries were uncooperative and that number has now shrunk to just nine countries thanks to Trump’s action.
President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, William Barr, will likely have to explain his past criticism of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian election meddling at his Senate confirmation hearing starting on Tuesday.
Senators were expected to
Auto executives gathered in Detroit on Monday called on the Trump administration and Congress to resolve trade disputes, and end the government shutdown, saying political uncertainty is costing the industry.U.S. trade officials are negotiating
President Donald Trump will meet members of Congress at the White House later on Tuesday as the partial U.S. government shutdown enters a 25th day without resolution amid a standoff over border wall funding.
Trump is scheduled to host the lawmakers for lunch, according
President Donald Trump has been scrutinized for calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” dozens of times, but the president took his Native American jokes a step further by referencing violent events, and he’s getting pushback from all sides.
Trump tweeted about Warren on Sunday, mocking her