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Senate leaders brokered a long-sought budget agreement Wednesday that would shower the Pentagon and domestic programs with an extra $300 billion over the next two years. But both Democratic liberals and GOP tea party forces swung against the plan, raising questions about its chances just a day before the latest government shutdown deadline.
Eric Holder, the only U.S. attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, emerged from relative obscurity Wednesday night to denounce "spurious attacks" on the FBI and Justice Department. Holder, a close friend of his former boss, President Barack Obama, appeared on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show Wednesday night, ostensibly to discuss his congressional redistricting project, but also to criticize the current president and attorney general for "discrediting" the FBI and Justice Department.
More specifically: The GOP-passed tax plan that led companies to announce bonuses that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed as "crumbs" compared with "the bonus that corporate America received" may be popular enough that it can lessen the danger of Republicans being wiped out by a blue wave in this year's midterm elections. Near Cincinnati on Monday, President Donald Trump compared Pelosi's "crumbs" comment to Hillary Clinton referring to half of Trump's supporters as belonging in a "basket of deplorables" during the 2016 presidential election.
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A year into the Trump administration, the White House website still has no Spanish-language content, unlike during the two previous administrations and even though nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States speaks Spanish. Even Iran and reclusive North Korea have made efforts to reach out to the Spanish-speaking world.
Senate leaders brokered a long-sought budget agreement Wednesday that would shower the Pentagon and domestic programs with an extra $300 billion over the next two years. But both Democratic liberals and GOP tea party forces swung against the plan, raising questions about its chances just a day before the latest government shutdown deadline.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walk to the chamber after collaborating on an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases, at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 7. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walk to the chamber after collaborating on an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases, at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 7. WASHINGTON - Senate leaders brokered a long-sought budget agreement Wednesday that would shower the Pentagon and domestic programs with an extra $300 billion over the next two years.
Alexandra Chandler was a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst when she came out as a transgender woman in 2006. She could have been fired, but instead she said the conservative Republicans in her chain of command promoted her to division chief.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking, eight-hour speech Wednesday in hopes of pressuring Republicans to allow a vote on protecting "Dreamer" immigrants - and to demonstrate to increasingly angry progressives and Democratic activists that she has done all she could. Wearing four-inch heels and forgoing any breaks, Pelosi, 77, spent much of the rare talkathon reading personal letters from the young immigrants whose temporary protection from deportation is set to expire next month.
A Justice Department official who helped oversee the controversial probes of Hillary Clinton 's use of a private email server and Russian interference in the 2016 election stepped down this week. David Laufman, an experienced federal prosecutor who in 2014 became chief of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, said farewell to colleagues Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with White House Secretary Rob Porter and Sen. Mike Lee as they return to the White House December 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with White House Secretary Rob Porter and Sen. Mike Lee as they return to the White House December 4, 2017 in Washington, DC.
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday, taking issue with Trump's reported plans for a military parade as another potential government shutdown looms and immigration and other issues remain unresolved.
Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday that the Pentagon is preparing options for a possible military parade to send to President Donald Trump for consideration. In a rare on-camera appearance at the White House briefing, Mattis told reporters that the President's respect for the military was apparent in his request of a military parade.
In this file photo taken on July 14, 2017 French Defence Minister Florence Parly, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, US First Lady Melania Trump, US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron, French Senate President Gerard Larcher, the President of the French National Assembly Francois de Rugy and the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo watch as members of the 4th Foreign Regiment march in the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris. AFP / Christophe Archambault Washington: President Donald Trump's dream of hosting a military parade in Washington was met with almost universal derision Wednesday, with critics seeing evidence of creeping authoritarianism.
From left, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., chat as they pass in the Senate subway on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. The Capitol is seen in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018.
Government shutdowns - evidence of how polarized Democrats and Republicans in office have become - are distressingly frequent news. The shutdown produced by U.S. Senate Democrats early in 2018 makes a first for them.
Page texted Mr. Strzok, her lover, about preparing a report for then-FBI Director James B. Comey because "[POTUS] wants to know everything we're doing," Fox News said. The message was one of more 50,000 texts the pair sent over a two-year span between July 2015 and July 2017.
A Dreamer's account of the life "in limbo" that the undocumented are compelled to lead-and how the battle for legalization became a battle for America's good name Over the course of the last 48 hours, bots linked to the Russian Federation have viralized a Twitter hashtag created by Republican lawmakers, who have a lot to be worried about. resident Donald Trump has boasted that he had signed far more bills during his first months in office than many of his predecessors.
They're already being called "Your Honor" in courtrooms across the country, but this week some of America's newest federal judges are students. They're together for training on their new jobs, a workshop affectionately called "Baby Judges School."
The U.S. Senate will be the focus Wednesday in the effort to fund the federal government and avoid another possible shutdown as Republicans and Democrats stand apart on how long to extend domestic spending relative to national defense. With a midnight Thursday deadline pending, the House of Representatives voted mostly along party lines Tuesday night to approve a spending bill that would fund the Pentagon for the remainder of the current fiscal year but fund domestic programs for just six weeks.