Without President Donald Trump to worry about, a bipartisan deal would likely sail through Congress to fund the government ahead of the holidays. But with Trump fueling the border wall brinkmanship, everyone in the Capitol has basically stopped talking. The House and Senate left town Thursday with no strategy to avert a partial government shutdown […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday engaged in an extraordinary argument with Democratic congressional leaders over government funding, threatening a partial shutdown if his demands for border wall money are not met. “I am proud to shut down the government for border security,” Trump told House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., […]

Author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who says he’s being threatened with indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in the Trump-Russia probe, filed a federal lawsuit Sunday night accusing Mueller of constitutional violations and leaking grand jury secrets. Corsi’s new suit against Mueller also accuses the special prosecutor of trying to badger him into giving false […]

Volatility in the administration is leading to volatility in the stock market. When President Donald Trump made it sound as though he had worked out a trade deal with China, or at least a temporary halt in the escalation of hostilities, markets rose smartly. When Trump tweeted that tariffs are wonderful and a fine substitute for a […]

President Donald Trump shared a tweet Tuesday claiming protestors in France chanted “We want Trump.” The original tweet came from Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, and said the protests in France over a proposed hike in fuel taxes showed the success of Trump’s administration. “There are riots in socialist France because of radical leftist fuel taxes,” Kirk wrote. […]