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Senate Republicans at an off-campus meeting on Thursday discussed making a rules change to speed the confirmation of many of MORE’s nominees after Democrats slowed the process during Trump’s first two years in office. “There was a lot of talk about the history of the Senate and appointments. It was a big topic of conversation,” said Sen.

Sen. MORE’s (D-Calif.) overseas visit to troops in Afghanistan, calling the move “inappropriate.” Graham also criticized Pelosi for “playing politics with the State of the Union.” Pelosi on Wednesday sent a letter to Trump requesting that he agree to postpone the Jan.

The White House on Thursday scrapped a scheduled trip by several Cabinet officials to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, citing the partial government shutdown. The decision comes after MORE (D-Calif.) by nixing her planned trip to Afghanistan. “Out of consideration for the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay and to ensure his team can assist as needed, President Trump has canceled his delegation’s trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. Trump last week c

MORE (D-Calif.) for warning she may postpone the State of the Union address by scrapping her planned trip overseas. In a letter to Pelosi, Trump told her that a congressional delegation trip she intended to take to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan, which he dismissed as a “public relations event,” is now “postponed.” “We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the shutdown is over,” Trump wrote.

Banks, wireless phone companies, and restaurants have set up hotlines where furloughed federal workers can call and receive help during the government shutdown as House and Senate Democrats refuse to fund a border wall to stop illegal immigration. Gibboney — whose 29-year-old son Ronald Da Silva was killed by an illegal alien in 2002 in El Monte, California — says that help from corporate America was never extended to her when she lost her son. “Never, never,” Gibboney said when asked if any businesses had stepped in to help her pay for her son’s funeral services.

Banks, wireless phone companies, and restaurants have set up hotlines where furloughed federal workers can call and receive help during the government shutdown as House and Senate Democrats refuse to fund a border wall to stop illegal immigration. Gibboney — whose 29-year-old son Ronald Da Silva was killed by an illegal alien in 2002 in El Monte, California — says that help from corporate America was never extended to her when she lost her son. “Never, never,” Gibboney said when asked if any businesses had stepped in to help her pay for her son’s funeral services.

The suspect, 21-year-old Hasher Jallal Taheb, allegedly possessed a “hand-drawn diagram” of the West Wing’s ground floor and planned to equip a backpack with explosives and approach the White House “from the back road, causing a distraction for police, and then proceeding into [it]” to launch an attack.

Photos shared to social media purport to show Democrats on a U.S. Air Force bus traveling to the airport when they received word that their access to a military plane had been blocked: One video shows House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) exiting the bus in front of the Capitol building: House Speaker Pelosi and other Democrats planned to depart around 3:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON — She imperiled his State of the Union address. He denied her a plane to visit troops abroad. The shutdown battle between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing out as a surreal game of constitutional brinkmanship, with both flexing their political powers from opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue as the negotiations to end the monthlong partial government shutdown remain stalled. In dramatic fashion, Trump issued a letter to Pelosi on Thursday, just before she and other lawmakers were set to depart on the previously undisclosed trip to Afghanistan and Brussels.

Michael A.