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President Donald Trump was far from the only one in Washington left with a sullen face as a spending bill was finally signed Friday afternoon. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle turned up empty-handed when Trump reluctantly signed an omnibus spending bill that didn't include sufficient funds for his border wall, doesn't defund "sanctuary cities," nor provide any solution on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Donald Trump was criticised by conservatives on Friday as he has signed a "monster" $1.3 trillion spending bill into law, having earlier threatened to veto it. The 2,232-page bill, which had been passed by Congress, funds the US government through September 30 and averted a government shutdown late on Friday night.
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Days of conflicting and misleading statements from President Donald Trump and his top aides have fueled new questions about the White House's credibility, sowing mistrust and instability within the West Wing and leaving some congressional Republicans wondering if they have a good faith negotiating partner in the president. One former congressional GOP leadership aide said it was becoming impossible for Republicans to negotiate anything with White House officials, given the president's willingness to undermine his own team's public and private assurances.
Tucked in the massive congr... . President Donald Trump with, Vice President Mike Pence, responds to reporters' questions in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2018, after he spoke about the $1.3 trillion spending bi... .
President Donald Trump grudgingly signed a $1.3 trillion federal spending measure Friday and averted a midnight government shutdown -- but only after undercutting his own negotiators and setting off a mini-panic with a last-minute veto threat.
The FBI says an attack at a Northern California Air Force base this week has no known "nexus to terrorism." FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan on Friday said a van that illegally entered Travis Air Force Base on Wednesday was on fire as it approached the gate of the base, then veered away and crashed.
President Trump, alongside Vice President Pence, speaks to the news media about the 2,232 page, $1.3 trillion spending bill, at the White House in Washington, March 23, 2018. In announcing the Justice Department's proposal to ban bump stocks in a tweet on Friday, President Trump blamed his predecessor for permitting the devices to be sold.
Sean Ragan, FBI special agent in charge, briefs reporters about a crash at the main gate of Travis Air Force Base, Calif., Friday, March 23, 2018. A 51-year-old man drove a flaming minivan loaded with propane tanks and gasoline cans through the main gate of the major Northern California Air Force base, authorities said, but added the driver had no known links to terrorism.
Four state attorneys general are supporting a judge's order for a federal utility to clean up coal ash at a Tennessee plant. In the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brief Thursday, Democratic attorneys general for Maryland, California, Washington and Massachusetts said overturning the order would threaten the Clean Water Act and give polluters incentive to skirt regulation by rerouting discharges to groundwater.
Former Vice President Joe Biden was quickly forgiven by a crowd of more than 1,500 at Southern Connecticut State University on Friday night, after arriving more than an hour late for the lecture he was scheduled to deliver. Biden was in Annapolis, Md., earlier in the day, accepting the Naval Academy Alumni Association's Distinguished Graduate Award on behalf of Sen. John McCain, who was unable to attend the ceremony due to a battle with glioblastoma, the same aggressive brain cancer Biden's son Beau died from in 2015.
Oregon's attorney general says she is reviewing whether to launch an investigation of Facebook, including whether it violated a state law that protects online customers' private information. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told The Associated Press that she and several other state attorneys general are drafting a letter to Facebook, asking about a leak of Facebook customers' data without their knowledge or consent.
Republicans chose Alex Winkler on Friday night as the replacement for expelled ex-Colorado Rep. Steve Lebsock after he made a last-minute party switch before being expelled earlier this month from the statehouse. Winkler was already running in the November election as a Republican for the House District 34 seat that Lebsock, a former Democrat, was set to vacate as he ran for Colorado treasurer.
The Trump administration on Friday announced a new regulation that would outlaw "bump stocks," the mechanical device used by the Las Vegas shooter to make his rifles fire like more lethal automatic weapons. President Donald Trump announced the regulation in a Twitter message a day before the so-called March for Our Lives, which was organized by young people after the mass slayings at a Parkland, Fla., high school.
The Justice Department announced Friday that it has started the process to amend federal firearms regulations to clarify that federal law defines bump stocks as machine guns. Trump tweeted Friday: "Obama Administration legalized bump stocks.
In past White Houses, the removal of a national security adviser would be the culmination of much drama and hand-wringing. Yet President Donald Trump's decision Thursday to replace H.R. McMaster with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton was only Act III in another week at the Trump White House.
Support for tougher gun control laws is soaring in the United States, according to a new poll that found a majority of gun owners and half of Republicans favor new laws to address gun violence in the weeks after a Florida school shooting left 17 dead and sparked nationwide protests. The poll, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that nearly 7 in 10 adults now favor stricter gun control measures.
It's hard not to focus on the fact that Trump has picked the 100th anniversary of the first Armistice Day celebration for his weaponry parade . But there was another parade a month and a half before the armistice that cries out for comparison because of its remarkable stupidity.