1/17/2019

GARY COHN/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive and ex-top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, denounced the partial government shutdown as ‘completely wrong’ in an interview published by the Boston Globe on Thursday [1-17-19]. The shutdown, which entered its 27th day Thursday and is the longest in history, shows no […]

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1/16/2019

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal employees who have been forced to take unpaid leave because of the partial government shutdown will get back pay. President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday [1-16-19] guaranteeing that furloughed workers will be paid retroactively. The legislation, which cleared both the House and the Senate last week, does not spell out specifically […]

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1/16/2019

GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday [1-16-18] asked President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address — or deliver it in writing — as long as the government remains shut down. The president was set to give his annual speech to Congress on Jan. 29. But Pelosi said the […]

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1/16/2019

AMBASSADOR/GOVERNMENT/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vice President Mike Pence tried to enlist America’s ambassadors in the shutdown fight on Wednesday [1-16-19], telling the diplomats they each have ‘a role to play as we take the battle forward on Capitol Hill to secure our border.’ But even as Pence urged the embassy chiefs to defend President Donald […]

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1/16/2019

BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday [1-16-19] that he could turn the ongoing government shutdown into a political issue in next year’s presidential election, labeling ‘Radical Democrats’ as a ‘party of open borders and crime.’ Trump’s White House is in the midst of stalled efforts to reopen portions of the federal government that […]

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1/16/2019

DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has insisted that he is not going to compromise with Democrats to end the government shutdown, and that he is comfortable in his unbendable position. But privately, it’s sometimes a different story. ‘We are getting crushed!’ Mr. Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, after watching some recent […]

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1/16/2019

GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Trump on Wednesday [1-16-19] to scrap or delay his Jan. 29 State of the Union address amid the partial government shutdown, an extraordinary request that escalated the partisan battle over his border wall even as bipartisan groups of lawmakers pressed him to reopen the government and […]

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1/15/2019

GOVERNMENT/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During the longest government shutdown in US history, President Donald Trump has been losing support among those who may be his strongest supporters — white Americans who don’t have college degrees. Among this group, only 45% said they approved of the job Trump is doing as President, according to a recent CNN […]

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1/15/2019

CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With this government shutdown now the longest in American history, it’s time to bring it to an end. The simplest way to end the shutdown is for the Senate to pass, as the House has already done, the six appropriations bills for the remainder of the fiscal year, along with a continuing […]

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1/15/2019

DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said Tuesday [1-15-19] that it would summon tens of thousands of federal employees back to work without pay to get the government running amid a partial shutdown well into its third week, as the White House and increasingly agitated lawmakers on Capitol Hill cast about for a way to […]

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1/14/2019

AGRICULTURE/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s visit to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention comes at an awkward time as farmers and ranchers begin to feel the pinch of the partial government shutdown. The president delivered remarks Monday afternoon before an overwhelmingly friendly audience of members of the country’s largest farm group. But with […]

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1/14/2019

DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said on Monday [1-14-19] that he has rejected a proposal by Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to temporarily reopen the government in an effort to jump-start talks with Democratic lawmakers on funding a border wall. ‘I did reject it,’ Mr. Trump said of the proposal, speaking to reporters […]

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1/13/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The damage done to our Country from a badly broken Border – Drugs, Crime and so much that is bad – is far greater than a Shutdown, which the Dems can easily fix as soon as they come back to Washington!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 13, 2019 10:36 am […]

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1/12/2019

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “President Donald Trump said Saturday [1-12-19] he was alone in the White House with a plan at the ready to reopen the federal government, but close White House advisers and staff said they remained in the dark about how he would end the three-week partial shutdown. Trump was slated to […]

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1/12/2019

BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….I do have a plan on the Shutdown. But to understand that plan you would have to understand the fact that I won the election, and I promised safety and security for the American people. Part of that promise was a Wall at the Southern Border. Elections have consequences!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/12/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats should come back to Washington and work to end the Shutdown, while at the same time ending the horrible humanitarian crisis at our Southern Border. I am in the White House waiting for you!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 12, 2019 9:28 am  […]

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1/12/2019

CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the partial government shutdown slipped into the record books Saturday [1-12-19], members of Congress had left town, no negotiations were scheduled and President Donald Trump tweeted into the void. He did not tip his hand on whether he will move ahead with an emergency declaration that could break the impasse, […]

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1/12/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Washington used to know how to have a serious debate about border security. Republicans demanded more money for Border Patrol agents and necessary fences. Democrats argued for better surveillance technology and more resources at the ports of entry. The two parties squabbled over how much to spend, how to pay for it […]

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1/11/2019

BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Friday [1-11-19] played down the prospects of an imminent emergency declaration to free up funding for his proposed border wall, saying in a reversal that he wasn’t ‘going to do it so fast.’ Locked in an impasse with Democrats over the wall, Trump has said repeatedly in recent […]

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1/11/2019

CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Despite previously unfruitful negotiations during the last round of shutdown talks, President Donald Trump says he’s ripe to reopen the government — urging party leaders to return to Washington and vote for a wall, or barrier, or whatever they wish to call it — even ‘peaches’…Trump’s comments came shortly after Congress adjourned […]

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1/11/2019

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “President Donald Trump said Saturday [1-12-19] that media reports of dysfunction within his administration amid the longest government shutdown in U.S. history were inaccurate because ‘there’s almost nobody in the W.H. but me’…The shutdown entered its fourth week on Saturday, with congressional lawmakers leaving town Friday as 800,000 federal workers […]

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1/11/2019

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The partial government shutdown is now the longest in American history. The shutdown entered its 22nd day on Saturday [1-12-19], surpassing the previous 21-day record set in late 1995 and early 1996 during the Clinton administration. Nine federal departments and several smaller agencies – one-fourth of the federal government – remain closed […]

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1/11/2019

BORDER/GOVERNMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The government shutdown and partisan wrangling over a wall at the southern border have produced high political drama in Washington, where President Trump has sought to portray the impasse as a national emergency. And as the shutdown reached a record 22nd day on Saturday, Americans following local and national media coverage would […]

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1/11/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has stepped back from declaring a national emergency to pay for a border wall, under pressure from congressional Republicans, his own lawyers and advisers, who say using it as a way out of the government shutdown does not justify the precedent it would set and the legal questions it could […]

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1/10/2019

BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [1-10-19] disputed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s account of their contentious meeting a day earlier, insisting that he had not slammed his fists on the table after hearing Democrats would not support funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Referring to Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a […]

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1/10/2019

BORDER/FEMA/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and the partial government shutdown (all times local): 7:15 p.m. The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says what’s happening on the U.S. southern border is no emergency. W. Craig Fugate, who ran the national disaster agency for nearly eight years under President Barack […]

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1/10/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said he is nearing a decision to declare a national emergency on the southern border, which he visited in person Thursday [1-10-19] despite earlier reservations about taking the trip. The President warned as he departed the White House he would take the step — which would be subject to […]

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1/9/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump stormed out of a shutdown meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday [1-9-19], threatening to declare a national emergency at the border after Democrats refused him money for a border wall. Trump later called the meeting ‘a total waste of time.’ Meanwhile, the partial shutdown droned on for 800,000 federal workers, […]

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1/9/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump walked out of discussions to end a partial government shutdown, now in its third week, calling the talks with congressional Democrats “a total waste of time’…Trump was in a chummy mood when he entered the Situation Room, according to a source familiar with how things unfolded. The President […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As the government shutdown passed its 18th day Tuesday [1-8-19], President Donald Trump told Americans that a border wall is needed to keep the country safe – but avoided talk of declaring a national emergency that would allow him to start building it without congressional authorization. In his first formal address from […]

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1/8/2019

GOVERNMENT/LEGISLATION/MIDDLE EAST/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Democrats blocked action on a bill unrelated to the ongoing government shutdown Tuesday [1-8-19], in protest of President Donald Trump’s demands to fund a controversial border wall with Mexico in exchange for reopening the agencies. The move escalated an already tense situation between the parties as Democrats weighed whether to […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democratic congressional leaders called on President Trump on Tuesday [1-8-19] to reopen the federal government while they resolve differences with him over securing the southern border, in a formal response to his prime-time address from the Oval Office that they dismissed as riddled with misinformation and fear-mongering. ‘The president has chosen fear; […]

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1/8/2019

CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The government shutdown is threatening important pieces of President Donald Trump’s agenda, escalating the political stakes as he and Congress vie to see who blinks first. At EPA and the Interior Department, furloughs have frozen efforts to roll back Obama-era regulations and open new water to oil and gas drilling. The White […]

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1/7/2019

GOVERNMENT/MEDIA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump doesn’t care how the shutdown is playing in the polls. He routinely dismisses unfavorable poll numbers as ‘fake news.’ Likewise, he is unlikely to be convinced he’s in political danger because of negative news coverage of the shutdown’s consequences. On Sunday [1-6-19], he blithely asserted that ‘many of those […]

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1/7/2019

DEMS/GOVERNMENT/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Democrats will try to block action on a Syria sanctions bill when it comes up for a vote Tuesday [1-8-19], an effort to keep the focus on the government shutdown. Democrats also will discuss at their weekly policy lunch Wednesday [1-9-18] whether to broaden that blocking tactic to all legislation, according […]

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1/7/2019

BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump unleashed an offensive on Monday [1-7-19] to persuade Americans that a ‘humanitarian and security crisis’ on the southern border must be addressed before a government shutdown can end, announcing a prime-time address for Tuesday and a trip to the border later in the week. Vice President Mike Pence briefed reporters […]

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1/7/2019

GOVERNMENT/IRS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Americans can still expect to get their tax refunds even though the Internal Revenue Service has been swept up in the federal government shutdown. ‘Tax refunds will go out,’ acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought told reporters on Monday. He added that the Trump administration is working […]

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1/7/2019

DEMS/GOVERNMENT/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As the budget standoff between President Trump and congressional Democrats grinds into the third week of a partial government shutdown, the White House has floated the idea that Mr. Trump might invoke emergency powers to build his proposed wall on the Mexican border without lawmakers’ approval. That route could resolve the immediate […]

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1/6/2019

BUDGET/GOVERNMENT: [Reporter: “Mr. President, do you relate to the pain of federal workers who can’t pay their bills?”] “I can relate. And I’m sure that the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustment. They always do. And they’ll make adjustment. People understand exactly what’s going on. But many of those people that […]

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12/26/2018

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump dug in his heels Wednesday [12-26-18] as the partial government shutdown drags on, telling reporters during a trip to Iraq that he would do ‘whatever it takes’ to get a wall at the border with Mexico…Parts of the federal government shut down last week after lawmakers were unable to […]

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12/26/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The partial government shutdown entered its fifth day Wednesday [12-26-18] with no signs of a breakthrough and hundreds of thousands of federal workers about to feel the pinch of a protracted standoff. President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders aren’t currently negotiating directly, according to GOP and Democratic aides. Staff-level discussions are […]

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12/26/2018

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mr. Trump went to Washington. And he changed it. In his first two years in office, President Donald Trump has rewritten the rules of the presidency and the norms of the nation’s capital, casting aside codes of conduct and traditions that have held for generations. In Trump’s Washington, facts are less relevant. […]

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12/24/2018

BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Wall is different than the 25 Billion Dollars in Border Security. The complete Wall will be built with the Shutdown money plus funds already in hand. The reporting has been inaccurate on the point. The problem is, without the Wall, much of the rest of Dollars are wasted!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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12/21/2018

CONGRESS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal government shutdowns are not new to Washington, but it’s unusual for them to happen when one party controls the White House and Congress. That’s what’s occurred under the Republican Trump administration – and it’s happened three times during his nearly two years in office. No other previous administration since the Budget […]

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12/21/2018

CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “With Washington just hours away from a partial government shutdown, lawmakers and President Donald Trump still have not yet reached a deal to stave off a shutdown. An effort to broker an agreement that would prevent a shuttering of key federal agencies appears to be underway, however. Republican Tennessee Republican Sen. […]

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12/21/2018

CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Parts of the federal government shut down at midnight after Congress and the White House failed to reach a deal Friday [12-21-18] night to avert the shuttering of several departments. Both the US House of Representatives and the Senate adjourned after Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said there would […]

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12/21/2018

BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “An array of federal departments shut down on midnight Friday after a last round of negotiations between the White House and congressional leaders failed to break the impasse over funding President Donald Trump’s border wall. It marks the third time this year that the government shut down, although this latest ‘lapse in […]

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12/21/2018

GOVERNMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will stay in Washington amid the government shutdown, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday..The Senate adjourned Saturday [12-22-18] afternoon with no solution to the partial government shutdown and no plans to reconvene until Dec. 27. The White House had twice canceled Trump’s planned departure to his […]

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12/21/2018

GOVERNMENT/MELANIA: “President Donald Trump isn’t traveling Friday [12-21-18] because of a looming government shutdown, but First Lady Melania Trump is on her way to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays. ‘It has long been the family’s tradition to spend their Christmas holiday at Mar-a-Lago. Her plans to travel with her son to their Florida home for his […]

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12/20/2018

CONGRESS/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump reversed his position on a possible government shutdown Thursday [12-20-18] amid rising anger from his conservative base on several fronts. As Trump obsessively monitored criticism from the right casting him as an inept negotiator being rolled by Congressional Democrats, he came to second-guess his earlier decision to sign […]

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12/20/2018

GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thursday [12-20-18] morning started quiet in Washington. Too quiet. Following the Republican-controlled Senate’s passage Wednesday [12-19-18] night of a short-term resolution to fund the government through February 8 — and avoid the political tremors caused by a government shutdown — the Republican-controlled House was expected to follow suit Thursday. Then everyone would […]

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12/19/2018

BORDER/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Rattled by accusations he was caving on his promised border wall, President Donald Trump instead bowed to a conservative backlash. After signaling earlier in the week that he was backing off a government shutdown threat, Trump rapidly changed course on Thursday [12-20-18], informing House Republican leaders that he would not sign a […]

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12/19/2018

DEMS/GOVERNMENT/SENATE/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate passed a stop-gap spending bill on Wednesday [12-19-18] night in an effort to keep the government funded and prevent a partial shutdown at the end of the week. A shutdown hasn’t been averted just yet: The measure will still need to be approved by the House of Representatives and signed […]

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12/19/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/POLLS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “If parts of the federal government shut down later this week, most voters will blame President Donald Trump and Republicans over Democratic minorities in Congress, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The holiday brinkmanship in Washington comes as the government must approve a series of spending bills to stay open past […]

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12/18/2018

GOVERNMENT/HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is giving the gift of time-off to federal employees, announcing Tuesday [12-18-18] he will excuse government workers from duty on Christmas Eve. Trump signed an executive order declaring that ‘all executive departments and agencies of the federal government shall be closed’ on Monday, continuing a loosely followed tradition when […]

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12/18/2018

BORDER/BUDGET/GOVERNMENT/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mitch McConnell thinks he’s gotten President Donald Trump to back off his shutdown threat. And it’s looking increasingly likely to come with a short-term punt. The Senate majority leader emerged from a lengthy party lunch after a flurry of mixed signals from the White House to declare there will be no […]

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12/18/2018

DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Senate’s top Republican said Tuesday [12-18-18] he’s confident that lawmakers and the White House will be able to avoid a government shutdown even though Democrats have rejected the GOP’s proposal for ending the impasse…Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is exploring ‘different’ sources to pay for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, […]

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12/18/2018

BUDGET/DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Senate Republicans are drafting a stopgap spending bill to extend the funding deadline for approximately 25% of the federal government until February 8, according to three sources. The decision to move forward on the short-term plan hasn’t been finalized, the sources said. There are still senators who are urging GOP leaders to […]

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12/17/2018

BUDGET/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans are searching for a way out of the impending partial government shutdown. But they are waiting for President Donald Trump to weigh in before making a move, and he appears to be in no rush to help them out. Roughly one-fourth of the federal government is scheduled to shutter on […]

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12/17/2018

BUDGET/GOVERNMENT/POLLS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Americans have a clear message to Washington as the government hurtles toward a partial shutdown Friday [12-21-18]: Don’t. By a double-digit margin, 54 percent to 29 percent, those surveyed in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll say they oppose the shutdown that President Donald Trump threatened if Congress doesn’t agree to his […]

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12/12/2018

BUDGET/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The trick in Washington has always been to make sure a government shutdown is pinned on the other guy. President Trump is the first to ever pin one on himself. In a new twist on the old game of shutdown politics dating to the 1990s, Mr. Trump was essentially goaded on Tuesday […]

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12/11/2018

BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “‘This has spiraled downward,’ Nancy Pelosi declared. That turned out to be an understatement. For 17 awkward and tense minutes in the Oval Office on Tuesday [12-11-18], President Donald Trump and his Democratic adversaries — Pelosi, the expected incoming House speaker, and Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader — clashed […]

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12/10/2018

BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Donald Trump’s meeting Tuesday [12-11-18] with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer may go a long way toward determining whether the government enters a partial shutdown before Christmas. But as Democrats seriously re-engage with Trump for the first time in nearly a year, their broad distrust of the president has expectations […]

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11/30/2018

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal employees are not to use the terms ‘resistance’ or ‘#resist’ in statements regarding President Donald Trump, according to guidance issued by the Office of the Special Counsel on Nov. 27. The guidance, emailed to federal employees, states that use of those terms when discussing the President, as well as supporting or […]

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10/20/2018

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “All levels of government and Law Enforcement are watching carefully for VOTER FRAUD, including during EARLY VOTING. Cheat at your own peril. Violators will be subject to maximum penalties, both civil and criminal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 20, 2018 7:36 pm […]

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10/17/2018

BUDGET/DEFENSE/GOVERNMENT/MILITARY/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [10-17-18] instructed federal department leaders to slash 5 percent from their budgets next year, signaling a renewed interest in belt-tightening amid mounting deficits…Even the military could see slight cuts from its current budget: Trump said the Pentagon’s budget would ‘likely be $700 billion,’ according to a White […]

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10/5/2018

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [10-5-18] lost another senior level official in his administration with the resignation of Jeff Pon, director of the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the federal government workforce. Pon is the latest in the unusually long list of senior officials to leave Trump’s administration. In a news […]

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10/1/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said three times this afternoon that he must now decide whether to push for more funding for the border wall in December — toning down a threat he previously espoused with certainty…The president has for months been throwing around the idea of forcing a government shutdown to get Congress […]

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9/28/2018

CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signed an $854 billion spending bill on Friday [9-28-18] to keep the federal government open through Dec. 7, averting a government shutdown in the weeks leading up to November’s pivotal midterm elections. Trump signed the legislation to fund the military and several civilian agencies without journalists present as the […]

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9/28/2018

GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [9-28-18] signed a massive spending package that funds a large section of government and averts a shutdown, a White House aide confirmed. The signing, which was scheduled to occur in private at noon on Friday, was done in the Oval Office and several lawmakers were present, the […]

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9/20/2018

ELECTION/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “All summer, congressional GOP leaders have touted their success passing spending bills before the Sept. 30 funding deadline, a rare feat in this partisan age that they’ve even highlighted on the campaign trail. But President Donald Trump just doesn’t care. He wants his wall, and he wants it yesterday. Trump on […]

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9/20/2018

DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Raising the specter of a government shutdown in just 10 days, President Donald Trump complained Thursday [9-20-18] that a spending plan pushed by congressional Republicans is ‘ridiculous’ because it does not include funding for a border wall with Mexico. Trump tweeted that he wants to know ‘where is the money for Border […]

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9/13/2018

GOVERNMENT/HOUSE OF REPS/SENATE/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House and Senate negotiators reached bipartisan agreement on a package of spending bills, as well as a continuing resolution to fund the remainder of the government through December 7 and forestall a potential government shutdown battle, aides in both chambers told CNN on Thursday [9-13-18]. The agreement, which the Senate […]

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9/6/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [9-6-18] a possible shutdown of the U.S. government over border wall funding ‘most likely’ would not happen until after the November congressional elections. In an interview with Fox News, Trump said he had been persuaded that closing the government would hurt his fellow Republican candidates. Trump […]

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9/6/2018

CONGRESS/GOVERMENT/PAUL RYAN/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday [9-6-18] he has a good understanding with President Donald Trump to fund the government by a Sept. 30 deadline, despite Trump’s comments a day earlier that he would be willing to shut down government if Congress does not provide enough border security funding. […]

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9/5/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [9-5-18] he would be willing to shut down the U.S. government over border security issues. In answer to a question from a reporter, Trump said: ‘If it’s about border security, I’m willing to do anything. We have to protect our borders.’” –Reuters Staff, “Trump says willing […]

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9/5/2018

BORDER/ELECTIONS/GOVERMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [9-5-18] held out the possibility of a government shutdown before the November elections over his effort to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, even as Republican congressional leaders publicly urged him away from that path and predicted it wouldn’t occur…Trump’s stance on whether he’d force a […]

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9/5/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [9-5-18] he would be willing to shut down the U.S. government if Congress does not provide enough funding for border security, reversing a stance he took a day earlier. Trump made his comments at a meeting with congressional Republican leaders at the White House about the […]

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8/31/2018

CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told lawmakers on Thursday [8-30-18] he wants to scrap a pay raise for civilian federal workers, saying the nation’s budget couldn’t support it. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Trump described the pay increase as ‘inappropriate’…An across-the-board 2.1% pay increase for federal workers was slated to take […]

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8/30/2018

GOVERMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ran for office as a populist. He swore to fight for the ‘forgotten men and women,’ a phrase he stole from FDR. But under his presidency, the middle class remains forgotten — hammered is more like it. President Trump’s announcement that he wants to cancel the 2.1% pay raise […]

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8/30/2018

GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump announced Thursday [8-30-28] he was canceling across-the-board pay raises for civilian workers across the federal government, citing the ‘nation’s fiscal situation’…roughly 1.8 million people wouldn’t get an automatic pay boost next year, including Border Patrol and ICE agents. That stance puts vulnerable GOP lawmakers representing northern Virginia — home […]

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7/10/2018

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “The Federal Government benefits from a professional cadre of administrative law judges (ALJs)… Pursuant to my authority under section 3302(1) of title 5, United States Code, I find that conditions of good administration make necessary an exception to the competitive hiring rules and examinations for the position of ALJ. These conditions include the […]

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4/27/2018

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Job vacancies are fast becoming a singular threat to President Donald Trump’s administration, with a record number of openings that stretch from low-level appointments to the secretary’s office at the Department of Veterans Affairs. While civil servants have stepped up to fill gaps, their power and influence is limited — and many […]

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4/5/2018

BUSINESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amazon.com Inc. is best known for transforming the U.S. retail industry, a feat that President Donald Trump has recently attacked. But the company has quietly been cultivating a major customer in his own backyard: the federal government. In the past several years, the Seattle-based company has won much of the business to […]

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3/30/2018

GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One Health and Human Services employee swore off online dating after potential suitors repeatedly got upset that he worked for the Trump administration. An Education Department fellow eagerly returned to teaching after listening to Betsy DeVos bash public schools. And one Environmental Protection Agency official said staffers are distraught at having to […]

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12/28/2015

GOVERNMENT/JOBS: “Wages in are country are too low, good jobs are too few, and people have lost faith in our leaders.We need smart and strong leadership now!”  – 12/28/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 12/28/2015 […]

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12/26/2015

GOVERNMENT/TERRORISM: “A new terror warning was issued for European cties. At what point do we say we have had enough and get really tough and smart. Weak leaders!”  – 12/26/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 12/26/2015 […]

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12/16/2014

GOVERNMENT/SPENDING: “How many more times do we all have to watch and pay for that stupid and never ending #SmokeyBearHug commercial. How much is govt. spending?”  – 12/16/2014, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 12/16/2014 […]

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12/3/2014

GOVERNMENT/GUANTANAMO/ISIS: “State Department has not revoked a single passport of ISIS Americans http://t.co/ixwdZ9Uo1N We should send them to Gitmo for some R&R.”  – 12/3/2014, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 12/3/2014 […]

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