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Mick Mulvaney: ‘We hope’ federal employees will get back pay by end of week

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday said the hope is that federal employees who were furloughed or forced to work without pay during the government shutdown will receive their back pay by the end of this week.

January 27, 2019

Hakeem Jeffries has no regrets over ‘colorful language’ about Donald Trump

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who chairs the House Democratic Caucus, on Sunday said he doesn't regret recent language he's used to describe President Trump, which has included calling Mr. Trump the "grand wizard" of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

January 27, 2019

Kevin McCarthy suggests not paying Congress during a government shutdown

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday said he would support docking pay for members of Congress as one way to head off future government shutdowns.

January 27, 2019

Marco Rubio: Donald Trump declaring national emergency to build border wall ‘a terrible idea’

Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday said it would be a "terrible" idea for President Trump to invoke emergency powers to secure money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall without congressional approval and that he doubted the White House would ultimately go that route.

January 27, 2019

Roger Stone: Donald Trump has never suggested he could offer pardon

Roger Stone, the longtime political operative and ally of President Trump, said Mr. Trump has never suggested to him that he could offer him a presidential pardon.

January 27, 2019

Roy Blunt warns Donald Trump against invoking emergency powers to build border wall

Sen. Roy Blunt, Missouri Republican, on Sunday warned President Trump against invoking emergency powers to secure money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall if Congress can't strike a deal in the coming weeks, saying such a move would be a "bad precedent."

January 27, 2019

Trump signs bill to end shutdown, fund government through Feb. 15

President Trump on Friday signed into law a measure to re-open shuttered federal agencies through Feb. 15, ending the partial government shutdown that stretched for more than a month.

January 25, 2019

Nancy Pelosi: State of the Union is ‘not planned’ right now

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said a date has not yet been worked out for President Trump's State of the Union Address and that those negotiations will take place once the government is open.

January 25, 2019

Schumer on Pelosi: ‘No one should ever underestimate the speaker’

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Friday the shutdown standoff showed that nobody should underestimate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

January 25, 2019

Senate leaders aim to speed bill through to reopen government

Senate leaders on Friday said they hope to send President Trump a short-term funding bill that will reopen the government by day's end, after Mr. Trump said he would support a measure to fund the government for three weeks while broader negotiations over border security take place.

January 25, 2019

Donald Trump unbowed as dueling government shutdown bids fail in Senate

Senators blocked two different attempts to end the government shutdown Thursday, filibustering one plan from President Trump and another from Democrats, leaving all sides to wonder whether there's a path out of the morass.

January 24, 2019

Senate rejects Trump immigration-shutdown bill, also defeats Dems’ option without border security

The Senate on Thursday rejected President Trump's immigration compromise to grant temporary legal status to 1 million migrants and allocate money for his border wall.

January 24, 2019

Nancy Pelosi: We’d meet with Trump ‘anytime he wants to meet’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said she's prepared to meet face-to-face with President Trump "anytime" to negotiate how to end the ongoing partial government shutdown.

January 24, 2019

House passes measure to fund DHS through February

The House on Thursday passed a stopgap funding measure that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security through February at 2018 funding levels.

January 24, 2019

House passes package to fund government through September — except DHS

The House on Wednesday passed legislation to provide funding through September for shuttered federal agencies aside from homeland security, which has gotten tied up in the standoff over President Trump's desired border wall.

January 23, 2019

House passes bill to reopen government through February

The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would reopen shuttered federal agencies through the end of February, taking another stab after Republicans asked for a revote following apparent passage of the legislation last week.

January 23, 2019

House Dems to lay out border battle demands: No new walls, more security manpower

After weeks of refusing to negotiate, House Democrats say they are working on a border security counteroffer that could match President Trump's $5.7 billion request for money -- though it won't include the 230 miles of new fencing he wants.

January 23, 2019

Supreme Court agrees to hear gun-rights case, rejects DACA one

The Supreme Court ducked taking a major case involving the Obama-era DACA program but did agree Tuesday morning to hear a gun-rights case, in what legal analysts said could be the final word on the court's schedule for this term.

January 22, 2019

Shutdown showdown votes slated for Thursday

Senate leaders scheduled a showdown on a pair of shutdown votes for Thursday, in what will be the first test of whether President Trump or Democrats have a stronger hand in the negotiations.

January 22, 2019

Rep. Collin Peterson, Minnesota Democrat: ‘Give Trump the money’ for the wall

The Democratic chairman of the House Agriculture Committee says he would favor giving President Trump money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall as a way out of the government shutdown if there are "strings" attached to make sure the money is spent properly.

January 22, 2019