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Leeb Capital CEO Steve Leeb and FBN's Charlie Brady, Liz MacDonald and Charlie Gasparino on why President Trump's tax overhaul and strong economic growth are likely to bolster the markets, even amid an impending government shutdown. A U.S. government shutdown will enter its third day on Monday as Senate negotiators failed to reach agreement late on Sunday to restore federal spending authority and deal with demands from Democrats that young "Dreamers" be protected from deportation.
A President Not Sure of What He Wants Complicates the Shutdown Impasse - WASHINGTON - When President Trump mused last year about protecting immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children, calling them "these incredible kids," aides implored him privately to stop talking about them so sympathetically. Graham: Stephen Miller makes immigration deal impossible - warned on Sunday that the White House staff is undercutting President Trump - and Congress's ability to get a deal on immigration.
The Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing said that exempt federal technicians and active-duty personnel would continue to carry out essential operations at the base today but that non-exempt technicians would be furloughed.
Republican candidates gathered after their Jan. 10 debate in Hebron. From left, Peter Lumaj, Mike Handler, Steve Obsitnik, Toni Boucher, Dave Walker, Prasad Srinivasan, Mark Boughton, party chairman J.R. Romano and Tim Herbst.
Night falls on the U.S. Capitol on Day 2 of the federal shutdown as lawmakers negotiate behind closed doors, in Washington on Jan. 21, 2018. Night falls on the U.S. Capitol on Day 2 of the federal shutdown as lawmakers negotiate behind closed doors, in Washington on Jan. 21, 2018.
The White House public comment line wasn't working on Sunday, and people who called the number were told it's the Democrats' fault. The comment line, which can be reached at 202-456-1111, is supposed to allow citizens a chance to leave a voice message for the President.
The dollar sagged against its peers on Monday as a U.S. government shutdown dented sentiment, although losses were limited for now as investors took a wait-and-see stance on developments in Washington. The shut down came into effect at midnight on Friday after Democrats and Republicans, locked in a bitter dispute over immigration and border security, failed to agree on a last-minute deal to fund government operations.
Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said on Sunday that Senate leaders were discussing a "path" to a vote to provide legal protection for so-called Dreamers, young people who illegally immigrated to the United States as children. "There's a conversation obviously still going on about whether there's a path to getting a vote on the DACA-Dreamer issue," the No.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., arrives for a meeting of fellow Republicans on the first morning of a government shutdown after a divided Senate rejected a funding measure, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. The U.S. government shut down at midnight after Congress failed to resolve a partisan standoff over immigration and spending.
Troy, Mich. a Episodes of congressional disarray feed an ideologically loaded narrative that government is hopelessly incompetent and can never be counted on to do much that is useful.
Washington a As the federal government hurtled toward a shutdown this last week, lawmakers played a now-familiar parlor game: What on Earth does President Trump want? On Wednesday, the White House issued an official statement saying it supported a 30-day spending bill to avert a shutdown that included a six-year extension of the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. But Thursday dawned to see Trump declaring the opposite.
The federal government shutdown has entered its second day and lawmakers remain stymied on even a short-term funding solution - a standoff that could drag on into the start of the work week on Monday. The legislative impasse could impact thousands of federal workers and the citizens they serve, as staffing at most agencies would be cut to a fraction of normal levels.
An explosive new ad by the Trump campaign implying that Democrats would be "complicit" in any murder committed by undocumented immigrants "doesn't work," a leading Democratic senator said. "The American people are not going to accept the premise that immigrants are criminals and that we ought to deport the 'Dreamers,'" Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on This Week Sunday.
Tammy Parks has been living in a hotel while waiting to get back to her home. The Red Cross has helped fund part of her stay, but Parks, like many other, are trying to figure out the next steps.
The Federal Aviation Administration also is using a ground delay to space out planes arriving at the Denver airport . Airport officials say those delays are averaging about 2.5 hours.
President Donald Trump hasn't backed away from his unsubstantiated claim that millions of illegally cast ballots cost him the popular vote in 2016, but his efforts to investigate it appear to have stalled. He transferred the work of the commission investigating his claim to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Justice Department has turned over to Congress additional text messages involving an FBI agent who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team following the discovery of derogatory comments about President Donald Trump. But the department also said in a letter to lawmakers that its record of messages sent to and from the agent, Peter Strzok, was incomplete because the FBI, for technical reasons, had been unable to preserve and retrieve about five months' worth of communications.
Restive Senate moderates in both parties searched for a solution to a partisan stalemate as they raced toward a late-night showdown vote and their last chance to reopen the federal government before hundreds of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., leave a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as Day 2 of the federal shutdown drags on, at the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018. WASHINGTON - Restive Senate moderates in both parties searched for a solution to a partisan stalemate as they raced toward a late-night showdown vote and their last chance to reopen the federal government before hundreds of thousands of federal workers were forced to stay home Monday.
Michael Wolff and I were talking backstage prior to his gig on Tuesday night at the Free Library of Philadelphia , and he confessed that he never saw it coming. He was convinced that he'd gotten the inside skinny about President Donald Trump's den of dysfunction, but in our info-saturated ecosystem, with Trump under scrutiny 24/7, who could have envisioned 11 printings within 12 days of release? After hanging out in the West Wing for nine months - Wolff concluded in his book that Trump is dangerous, incompetent, ignorant and unfit to serve.