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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with law enforcement officials on the MS-13 street gang and border security, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, in Washington. . Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., smiles as he meets with reporters as work continues on a plan to keep the government as a funding deadline approaches, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018.
House Republican leaders have come out with a plan to keep the government open for six more weeks while Washington grapples with a potential follow-up budget pact and, perhaps, immigration legislation. GOP leaders announced they would seek to pass the stopgap spending bill by marrying it with a full-year, $659 billion Pentagon spending bill that's a top priority of the party's legion of defense hawks.
With less than a week before government funding runs out, it appears Congress will consider another short-term spending package, although negotiators reportedly are close to a long-term deal. If lawmakers do not act before midnight Feb. 8, federal agencies will shut down for the second time in as many months.
President Donald Trump says Republicans are coming off one of "the greatest years in the history of a party." Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said another continuing resolution is expected next week, but another shutdown is not likely.
In March of 2014, America first became aware of a practice soon come to be known as "McConnelling" - candidates posting hokey stock videos of themselves online that Super PACs could then pilfer and use in their own ads. At the time, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky uploaded an awkward reel of himself accomplishing several mundane tasks, including giving speeches, hanging out with his wife and flashing a million-dollar smile while staring deeply into voters' souls.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office said in a news release that R.D. James was confirmed Thursday as assistant secretary of the Army for civil works. Former President Ronald Reagan appointed James to serve on the Mississippi River Commission, and he held the position for 36 years.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., comments on the government shutdown during a TV news interview at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives at the Capitol at the start of the third day of the government shutdown, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.
For years, the number of democracies in the world had been on the rise, but recently the trend has stalled. The New York Times journalists Max Fisher and Amanda Taub explore why some democratic countries have backslid, while others never quite made it.
A 15-year-old girl, later identified as Bailey Nicole Holt, died at the scene and a 15-year-old boy, later identified as Preston Ryan Cope, died at the hospital, Bevin said. The shooting took place just before 8 a.m. local time at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, about 120 miles northwest of Nashville, Tennessee.
In the hours after U.S. senators struck a deal to end the government shutdown Monday, scores of immigrant advocates gathered near the U.S. Capitol to protest what they saw as the Democrats' decision to abandon the “dreamers,” young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. One by one, they called out the names of Democrats who voted with Republicans to end the shutdown, shouting, “Shame!” On Tuesday, the protesters will be back, rallying in Upper Senate Park and then visiting lawmakers' offices to demand the vote on immigration legislation that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has vaguely promised.
At least two people were killed Tuesday in Benton, Ky., after a shooter opened fire on students and faculty at a local high school. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said at least 17 others were also injured in the attack on Marshall County High School, 12 of whom sustained gunshot wounds.
One of the multiple wounded victims has died in a shooting at Marshall County High School in Western Kentucky Tuesday, according to Kentucky State Police. "Much yet unknowna Please do not speculate or spread hearsaya Let's let the first responders do their job and be grateful that they are there to do it for us."
WASHINGTON – The deal that ended the government shutdown on Monday paved the way for Senate consideration of immigration legislation, but it did nothing to ensure that the House would act on such a bill – or that President Trump would sign it. That has raised fears among immigrant advocates that the shutdown-ending compromise merely sets up a repeat of what happened five years ago, when eight senators forged an immigration deal that passed the Senate but went nowhere in the House after the GOP's conservative base revolted against any attempt to give "amnesty" to illegal immigrants.
President Trump signed a short-term spending bill that will fund the government through Feb. 8, ending a weekend-long government shutdown. The measure also extends the Children's Health Insurance Program through 2023 and suspends three Obamacare-related taxes and fees.
Sen. Chuck Schumer was seen to cave after Senate Democrats agreed to end the U.S. government shutdown. Democrats are widely viewed as having caved on their pledge to fight for young, undocumented immigrants to remain in the country, after agreeing to end a U.S. government shutdown shortly after supporting it.
Some military families took a breath of cautionary relief Monday when a deal appeared to have been reached in the Senate to end a short government shutdown. "When this filibuster started we thought, 'oh, no, it's happening all over again,'" said Emily Erickson, the wife of an Air Force staff sergeant stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, a sprawling installation outside Las Vegas.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives at the Capitol at the start of the third day of the government shutdown, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.