All 17 members of the group appointed to work out a compromise on border-security funding are on the Appropriations Committee in either the House or the Senate. The group will be led by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Nita Lowey, D., N.Y., and its ranks include the panel’s top Republican, Kay Granger of Texas. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman […]

Grassroots Republicans are sticking with President Donald Trump as an historic partial shutdown of the federal government continues with no end in sight amid a partisan spat over immigration. That was the consensus report from Republican National Committee members Wednesday as they gathered from around the country for an annual winter business meeting. In interviews, […]

President Trump said Tuesday that the students at Covington Catholic High School have become “symbols of Fake News” after being accused by the press of intimidating a Native American man at a rally in Washington, D.C. Trump also slammed the media for its coverage of the encounter, which many said showed student Nick Sandmann and his […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to raise the political stakes on the partial government shutdown Wednesday by telling President Donald Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, arguing that it’s too dangerous to give a speech to a joint session of Congress with the Secret Service working without pay. Government officials rebutted her claims, […]

No Democrats will attend a lunch on Tuesday with President Donald Trump designed to reach an agreement to end the government shutdown and fund a border wall, the White House said. Trump had invited several moderate House Democrats to the White House in an effort to undermine Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has refused to grant […]