Congress OKs border deal; Pres. Trump will sign, declare emergency
WASHINGTON -- Congress lopsidedly approved a border security compromise Thursday that would avert a second painful government shutdown, but a new confrontation was ignited — this time over President Donald Trump's plan to bypass lawmakers and declare a national emergency to siphon billions from other federal coffers for his wall on the Mexican boundary.Money in the bill for border barriers, about $1.4 billion, is far below the $5.7 billion President Trump insisted he needed and would finance just a quarter of the 200-plus miles he wanted.
As President Trump makes case for border wall in Texas, lawmakers reach deal to avoid shutdown
EL PASO, Texas — President Donald Trump headed to the Texas border on Monday to argue his case that walls work as Democrats and Republicans back home in Washington announced a deal had been reached to avoid another government shutdown.President Trump was bound for El Paso, aiming to reshape the debate around the wall following a damaging shutdown fight and with his signature 2016 campaign promise hanging in limbo.
Elizabeth Warren takes on President Trump, says he may not be 'a free person' in 2020
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Back in Iowa as a full-fledged presidential candidate, Democrat Elizabeth Warren took aim at President Donald Trump on Sunday, saying he "may not even be a free person" by next year's election.The Massachusetts senator's comments came a day after President Trump renewed his criticism of her past claims of Native American heritage.
President Trump calls for end of resistance politics in State of Union
WASHINGTON — Facing a divided Congress for the first time, President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Washington to reject "the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution." He warned emboldened Democrats that "ridiculous partisan investigations" into his administration and businesses could hamper a surging American economy.President Trump's appeals for bipartisanship in his State of the Union address clashed with the rancorous atmosphere he has helped cultivate in the nation's capital — as well as the desire of most Democrats to block his agenda during his next two years in office.
President Trump says release of Mueller report 'totally up to' attorney general
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says it's "totally up to" his attorney general whether the public gets to read special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report.President Trump was asked on CBS' "Face the Nation" whether he'd have a problem with a public release.
President Trump says he wouldn't steer son Barron toward football
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump says he wouldn't steer son Barron toward football, saying it's "a dangerous sport," but also wouldn't stand in the way if the soccer-playing 12-year-old wanted to put on pads.The NFL fan tells CBS' "Face the Nation" in an interview taped before the Super Bowl that football is "really tough."He says equipment, including helmets, has improved "but it hasn't solved the problem."President Trump thinks the NFL "is a great product." But as for Barron playing, the president calls it a "very tough question.""If he wanted to?
Pres. Trump names former doctor as assistant and medical adviser
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump has appointed his former doctor to be his assistant and chief medical adviser.Saturday's announcement by the White House follows President Trump's decision to re-nominate Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson for a second star due to inaction by the previous Congress.
President Trump on course with pro golfers Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods
JUPITER, Fla. — The White House says President Donald Trump is playing golf in Florida with pros Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.President Trump arrived at his private club in sunny Jupiter on Saturday morning after he escaped the bitter cold and snow in Washington a day earlier.The weekend trip is President Trump's first to his Florida home and properties since Thanksgiving.
President Trump's State of the Union to focus on 'choosing greatness'
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump heads into his State of the Union address dogged by bruising midterm losses and sinking poll numbers, wounded by a blistering standoff with Democrats.
President Trump, Speaker Pelosi agree on Feb. 5 for State of the Union address
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's invitation to deliver his State of the Union speech on Feb. 5, a week later than originally scheduled because of the partial government shutdown."It is my great honor to accept," President Trump said in a letter to Pelosi. "We have a great story to tell and yet, great goals to achieve!"The speech had initially been scheduled for Jan. 29, but Pelosi postponed it amid what turned into a 35-day partial government shutdown over President Trump's demand for border wall funding.
Government report says US budget deficit set to hit $897B
WASHINGTON — A government report released Monday says that the U.S. budget deficit is set to hit $897 billion this year and predicts that economic growth will slow as the effects of President Donald Trump's tax cut on business investment begin to drop off.The new Congressional Budget Office Report predicts a $118 billion increase over last year's $779 billion deficit.
Lawyer says 12 undocumented immigrants fired from Trump National Golf Club
NEW YORK — A dozen immigrant workers at one of President Donald Trump's golf clubs in New York who are in the U.S. illegally were fired this month even though managers had known about their legal status for years, a lawyer for the workers said Saturday.As the president railed during the partial government shutdown against immigrants coming into the country illegally, a manager at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County called a dozen immigrant workers into a room one by one Jan. 18 and fired them, said lawyer Anibal Romero.Many of them had worked at the club for a dozen or more years, he said, and managers knew they had submitted phony documents but looked the other way."This is bogus.
White House: President Trump OK with 2nd shutdown over border wall spat
WASHINGTON — Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says President Donald Trump is prepared for another government shutdown if Congress won't work with him to secure the southern border.Mulvaney says President Trump doesn't want to see federal agencies closed again and doesn't want to declare a national emergency either.
President Trump ally Roger Stone charged with lying about hacked emails
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's confidant Roger Stone has been charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's 2016 election bid.
President Trump signs bill to end government shutdown
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has signed a bill that temporarily opens the federal government for three weeks, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history at 35 days.The White House says Pres.
President Trump's retreat: Shutdown ends without wall money -- for now
WASHINGTON — Submitting to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congress give him money for his border wall before federal agencies get back to work.Standing alone in the Rose Garden, President Trump said he would sign legislation funding shuttered agencies until Feb. 15 and try again to persuade lawmakers to finance his long-sought wall.
President Trump donates $100,000 from salary to alcoholism research
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has donated his salary from the third-quarter of 2018 to the federal agency that researches alcoholism and alcohol-related problems.The White House says President Trump donated $100,000 to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.Alcoholism is a personal issue for the president.
'We have reached a deal:' President Trump, Congress leaders reach deal to end shutdown
WASHINGTON — Yielding to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump and congressional leaders on Friday reached a short-term deal to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations continue over the president's demands for money to build his long-promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.President Trump announced the agreement to break the 35-day impasse as intensifying delays at the nation's airports and widespread disruptions brought new urgency to efforts to resolve the standoff."I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government," he said from the Rose Garden.After saying for weeks that he would not reopen the government without border wall money, President Trump said he would soon sign a bill to re-open the government through Feb. 15 without additional money for his signature campaign promise.
President Trump confidant Stone is arrested, says he's 'falsely accused'
WASHINGTON — Shouting "FBI, open the door," authorities arrested Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, before dawn Friday in a criminal case that revealed that senior members of the Trump campaign sought to benefit from the release of hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton.The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" with a long history with President Trump, is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller.