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President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans who control Congress face their first major budget test next week, with the threat of a U.S. government shutdown potentially hinging on his proposed Mexican border wall as well as Obamacare funding. With Republicans controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, keeping the federal government operating is a basic test of their ability to govern, but their task could become even more complicated if they insist on using the spending legislation to bring about contentious policy changes.
ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR PARIS ATTACK THAT KILLED 1 POLICE OFFICER AND WOUNDED 2 MORE: ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on police officers on the Champs-Elysees in Paris Thursday evening that left one officer dead and two others wounded. The terrorist group released a message through its news agency Amaq saying that the attacker was "one of the fighters for the Islamic State."
Pence will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday as part of his 10-day, four country trip... . U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, and his wife Karen smile as they arrive in Sydney, Friday, April 21, 2017.
During a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Gentiloni, while praising their great culture and artistic accomplishments, President Trump said, "Through the ages your country has been a beacon of artistic and scientific achievement." Trump continued and offhandedly said, "That continues today.
Geopolitical tensions flare every spring on the Korean peninsula, but analysts say the anxiety of recent weeks has been magnified by the unpredictable new player in the annual drama: Donald Trump. North Korea always intensifies its rhetoric when Seoul and Washington stage annual large-scale joint military drills that it condemns as rehearsals for a potential invasion.
FILE - In this March 21, 2107 file photo, President Donald Trump, with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to rally support for the Republican health care overhaul. W... WASHINGTON - A simple question - should adults who are able to work be required to do so to get taxpayer-provided health insurance? - could lead to major changes in the social safety net.
One of the many irritating things about the dominant United States corporate media is the way it repeatedly discovers anew things that are not remotely novel. Take its recent discovery that Donald Trump isn't really the swamp-draining populist working class champion he pretended to be on the campaign trail.
Fox News took Bill O'Reilly off the air after a heavy campaign to fire him led by CNN's media unit and The New York Times. If all the charges of sexual harassment are true, his case is indefensible.
Money for the wall President Donald Trump wants to build along the U.S. border with Mexico must be part of the massive spending bill Congress is preparing, the White House budget director says. Additional funding also must be included to hire more immigration agents, Mick Mulvaney told The Associated Press in an interview in which he laid out the top priorities of the president.
If you're any student of politics, you saw Steve Bannon on the cover of Time magazine in early February - "The Great Manipulator," it called him - and knew to start the countdown then. He'd crossed the line that a politician's advisers mustn't, to a place and prominence where only the most foolish of them tread.
Rhetoric is one of the original seven liberal arts. Aristotle defined it as "the faculty of observing, in any given case, the available means of persuasion."
With a deadline looming this week to avert a U.S. government shutdown, Congress returns to work on Monday as President Donald Trump leans on Democrats to include funding for his promised border wall with Mexico in spending legislation. The Republican president took to Twitter on Sunday to warn Democrats that the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, could soon lose essential funding without Democratic support for a congressional spending plan to keep the government running.
A top private prison company is struggling to convince Texas lawmakers to license one of its facilities to hold immigrant parents and their children together -- a practice that President Donald Trump's administration recently committed to upholding. The Karnes Residential Center, 60 miles south of San Antonio, opened as a family detention center in 2014 and used to hold detainees for months, until a federal judge ruled that children held longer than 20 days must be housed in "non-secure" facilities with child care licenses.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally for Omaha Democratic mayoral candidate Heath Mello today in Omaha, Neb. Sanders, who attracted millions of college-aged and young adults to his presidential campaign last year, is following through on a promise he made when he left the race: to promote younger leaders for the Democratic Party.
Like what you read below? Sign up for HUFFPOST HILL and get a cheeky dose of political news every evening! , just another day on the calendar in which Americans try to forget about reality. Bill O'Reilly is receiving a -- an amount typically reserved for more noble undertakings like selling out to a lobbying firm, ruining the Yankees' playoff chances or running an investment bank into the ground.
While President Donald Trump has been stymied on many fronts - the legal challenges to his refugee ban, the defeat of the AHCA, and the complete lack so far of any legislative accomplishments - Jeff Sessions is firmly in place as the nation's top law enforcement officer. And he has been busy.
President Donald Trump has hosted former Alaska governor Sarah Palin at a White House dinner with musicians Ted Nugent and Kid Rock. Palin posted photos on social media and her website.
The White House is eyeing Wednesday as a target date for a vote on an Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, according to a report, but a Republican aide on Capitol Hill said there is no text of a bill yet. The Washington Post's Robert Costa tweeted that a top White House official said aides to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans will circulate revised language on a health-care bill Thursday evening.
I assume you've already seen the stories making the rounds about all that money President Trump raised for the inaugural. It's really quite scandalous sounding, at least on MSNBC.
About 23 million Americans and 1 in 10 households use prepaid debit cards, and more than $270 billion in payments was made on them in 2015-yet this Congress may choose to gut protections for them. Under the Congressional Review Act , or CRA, Congress has the power to veto new regulations finalized by government agencies.