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MORE (Va.) that he will sign a bill providing backpay to federal workers once the government shutdown, which has stretched 20 days, finally ends.  The Senate passed by unanimous consent legislation Thursday evening providing that federal workers — essential and furloughed employees — will be paid once the shutdown is over. Federal employees are due to miss paychecks Friday, which has caused consternation in the Washington, DC, region.  Trump made his pledge in a phone call with Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) as part of an effort to work

MORE on Thursday gave his strongest indication yet that he may declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress if he cannot reach a deal with Democrats on funding for his long-promised border wall. Trump spent most of the day near the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, a visit many in Washington see as a precursor to an emergency declaration after talks with congressional leaders imploded the day before. “Well, we can declare a national emergency.

The day after Christmas, Singh pulled Gustavo Perez Arriaga over on suspicion of drunk driving.

“Dear Diary…” Trump wrote, quoting Acosta’s tweet about a steel barrier and the safe community on the other side of the border slat wall. The Acosta tweet Trump referenced showed the CNN White House Correspondent at the border pointing to where the steel slats gave way to chain link fencing and talking about the safe neighborhood on the U.S. side of the border. As he stood by the chain link fencing, he said people do see migrants come over the border there. Acosta tweeted video of himself at a steel slat border wall Thursday morning, stating that there was no national emergency there.

“Dear Diary…” Trump wrote, quoting Acosta’s tweet about a steel barrier and the safe community on the other side of the border slat wall. The Acosta tweet Trump referenced showed the CNN White House Correspondent at the border pointing to where the steel slats gave way to chain link fencing and talking about the safe neighborhood on the U.S. side of the border. As he stood by the chain link fencing, he said people do see migrants come over the border there. Acosta tweeted video of himself at a steel slat border wall Thursday morning, stating that there was no national emergency there.

“So I’m here at the dentist and we’re going to continue our series on the people of the border,” O’Rourke says in a video shared to Instagram as he reclines in a dentist chair. The former El Paso-area congressman then flips his cell phone camera onto his hygienist, Diana, to talk about her life growing up near the Southern border. Diana tells O’Rourke she was born in El Paso to a mother from a small Mexican town and a father with U.S. citizenship.

Back in April 2015 — an era so distant in American history that it barely shimmers in and out of view, cloaked in the haze of everything that’s happened since — Donald John Trump promised the United States that he would build a wall on the border with Mexico and that Mexico would cover the cost. It was at an event in New Hampshire covered by Paul Steinhauser of NH1 News, targeting the state which, as it turns out, would provide Trump with his first victory in electoral politics. But at the time — despite Steinhauser’s accurate assessment that it wasn’t — it seemed like a joke.

SCOT LEHIGH In the absences of leadership, US senators have to take matters into their own hands.  Michael A.

SCOT LEHIGH In the absences of leadership, US senators have to take matters into their own hands.  Michael A.

SCOT LEHIGH In the absences of leadership, US senators have to take matters into their own hands.  Michael A.