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Read the full statement below: "I supported the short-term government funding bill that passed the House on Thursday, which delays harmful Obamacare taxes and also extends the Children's Health Insurance Program for six years. The House did its job.
Jan. 20, 2018, Fairfax, Va.-Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting Senate Democrats for shutting down the government to impose illegal alien amnesty: "The Democrats have chosen to shut down the government over their demand of amnesty for illegal aliens. Mitch McConnell is right to tell Chuck Schumer that the people of the United States will not be extorted by the Democrat minority that seeks to run the government.
The world's most powerful government shut down today after President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress failed to reach a deal on funding for federal agencies, highlighting America's deep political divisions. For the first time since October 2013 - when a similar standoff that lasted 16 days kept only essential agency operations running - federal workers were being told to stay at home or in some cases to work without pay until new funding is approved.
Sen. Lindsey Graham , one of the Republicans who joined Democrats' shutdown filibuster Friday night, offered a plan forward Saturday, saying he wants to see a 20-day funding bill passed along with a guarantee that the Senate will quickly move to debate immigration next month. The South Carolina Republican had been working the floor during the filibuster vote, trying to win over colleagues to his proposal, and shuttling between GOP and Democratic leaders to keep them up to speed on his deal-making.
The world's most powerful government shut down on Saturday after President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress failed to reach a deal on funding for federal agencies, highlighting the country's deep political divisions. For the first time since October 2013 - when a similar standoff that lasted 16 days kept only essential agency operations intact - federal workers were being told to stay at home or in some cases to work without pay until new funding is approved.
As lawmakers pointed fingers on Capitol Hill and entered into a government shutdown, recent polls show Republicans and President Trump would bear most of the blame. But Republicans still think they have the winning message despite the Senate blocking a short-term spending bill Friday night .
On the first anniversary of his presidency on Saturday, with the stock market roaring and his poll ratings finally rising, he had planned to rest at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, feted by friends and admirers. His failure to win passage by the U.S. Congress of a stopgap bill to maintain funding for the federal government further damaged his self-crafted image as a dealmaker who would repair the broken culture in Washington.
The shutdown could be short-lived. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed early Saturday to keep the Senate in session, and the House was scheduled to reconvene at 9 a.m. Saturday to be ready to vote on whatever the Senate may pass.
Shortly after Congress sent the federal government spiraling toward a shutdown by failing to pass a continuing funding resolution tonight, North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman sent out a statement blasting Republicans, laying blame for the "sh*tdown" squarely at their feet. Earlier today, Huffman voted against the continuing resolution that passed the House and would have funded the government into mid February and reauthorized the Children's Health Insurance Program, which expired in September and provides insurance for some 9 million children, for the next six years.
The White House stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Temporary government funding runs out at midnight Friday and there's still no agreement on a temporary extension.
President Trump and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer failed to resolve the spending impasse on Friday in an extended meeting at the White House intended to see if they could avert a government shutdown. The two men promised to keep negotiating but lawmakers were lurching toward a midnight deadline with no deal in sight and no vote scheduled on a stop-gap measure to fund the government for another four weeks.
Democrats are threatening a government shutdown if they don't get their way on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program shielding illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation if they qualify. Meanwhile, pro-life demonstrators are filling Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life event.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said: "My Democratic colleagues' demands on illegal immigration, at the behest of their far-left base, have crowded out all other important business." A shutdown of the US federal government is looming with opposition in the House and Senate to a Republican bill that would keep the government open for another month.Without action by Congress, the government will shut down on Saturday, the Hill magazine reported.
Tucker Carlson has been flirting with white nationalist rhetoric over the past few months. Case in point, thursday night, he and guest Mark Steyn - a Canadian-born immigrant and conservative commentator - lamented openly that the number of Hispanic and Latino people in Arizona are making the state less American.
If Congress can't agree on a plan to fund the federal government before time runs out, a shutdown is expected to affect millions of Americans. For starters, the continuing resolution proposed by House Republicans would include a six-year reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program - but if it doesn't pass the Senate, CHIP will be funded only through March.
"Government Funding Bill past last night in the House of Representatives," President Trump tweeted early Friday morning. "Now Democrats are needed if it is to pass in the Senate - but they want illegal immigration and weak borders.
A bitterly-divided Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown this weekend in a partisan stare-down over demands by Democrats for a solution on politically fraught legislation to protect about 700,000 younger immigrants from being deported. Democrats in the Senate have served notice they will filibuster a four-week, government-wide funding bill that passed the House Thursday evening, seeking to shape a subsequent measure but exposing themselves to charges they are responsible for a looming shutdown.
Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan has said the gloves are off on illegal immigration. ICE seems to be underperforming ; is this deliberate? The reality is much different .
Thomas Homan, ICE's head, has lambasted California over a state law that limits the cooperation of local law enforcement with federal immigration authorities. Law enforcement officials from Northern California said they will refuse to assist federal authorities in the upcoming sweeps that aim to capture more than 1,500 illegal immigrants, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.