Author: Andrew Taylor
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David Ramsey: Let’s return to Nixon’s polarizing Air Force Academy graduation speech
Polarizing. It describes a leader armed with the charisma, intelligence and inclination to divide America, where talent at polarizing leads to power, fame and riches. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were beloved and despised. So were Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Today, Donald Trump polarizes, inspiring tension and loud fun at family dinners across…
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Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall
WASHINGTON • The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said “It’s coming out of military pay and pensions. $1 billion. That’s the plan.” Durbin…
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House passes resolution to stop Trump’s border emergency declaration
WASHINGTON — Democrats ignored a veto threat and rammed legislation through the House Tuesday that would stymie President Donald Trump’s bid for billions of extra dollars for his border wall, escalating a clash over whether he was abusing his powers to advance his paramount campaign pledge. The House’s 245-182 vote to block Trump’s national emergency…
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Trump to declare national emergency at border as he signs Senate’s spending compromise
WASHINGTON — The Senate resoundingly approved a border security compromise Thursday that ignores most of President Donald Trump’s demands for building a wall with Mexico but would prevent a new government shutdown. The White House said Trump would sign it but then declare a national emergency and perhaps invoke other executive powers to try to…
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Shutdown avoided: Lawmakers agree on border deal
Congressional negotiators reached agreement Monday night to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues that had threatened to scuttle the talks. Republicans were desperate to avoid another bruising shutdown. They tentatively agreed to far less money for President Donald Trump’s…
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Both parties feel urgency after Senate fails to end shutdown
WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic leaders hunted Friday for a way to halt the 35-day partial government shutdown, but remained at odds over President Donald Trump’s demand that any compromise include money for his coveted border wall. Senators were talking with increased urgency after Thursday’s defeat of competing proposals from Trump and the Democrats. The…
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Week 5: House Democrats float ’21st Century’ border security plan
WASHINGTON — House Democrats are putting forward a new proposal to end the government shutdown, aiming to lure President Donald Trump away from his demand for a border wall by offering billions of new dollars for other border security measures. The offer is a possible path toward a compromise even though it does not have…
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Trump’s $4 trillion budget helps move deficit sharply higher
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday launched what he calls a “big week” for his infrastructure plan, which envisions $1.5 trillion in spending over a decade to rebuild roads and highways. The plan would fulfill a key campaign goal but rely heavily on state and local government budgets to become a reality. The president…
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Trump signs budget deal, government reopens
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed a $400 billion budget deal that sharply boosts spending and swells the federal deficit, ending a brief federal government shutdown that happened while most Americans were sleeping and most government offices were closed, anyway. The House and Senate approved a bill to keep the government funded through…
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Congress stumbles into gov’t shutdown, budget deal stalled
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government stumbled into a shutdown at midnight as a rogue Senate Republican blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal, protesting the return of trillion-dollar deficits on the watch of Republicans controlling Washington. The shutdown — technically a lapse in agency appropriations — was the second government closure…