President Trump moved Thursday to shore up the Department of Homeland Security, pledging to use executive authority to ensure pay continuity for thousands of federal workers caught in an unresolved funding gap, while also using the moment to sharpen his attack on Democratic leaders. The Senate passed a DHS funding bill Thursday morning, but House
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The record has now been set. Forty-six days. The longest partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security in American history — longer than any of us had reason to expect, and
President Trump is weighing a dramatic move — compelling Congress to return early from recess to resolve the funding crisis at the Department of Homeland Security. “It’s something that’s under consideration,” he
Day 40. That’s how long the Department of Homeland Security has been without full funding — and as of today, Washington has no deal and no serious plan to reach one. The
There is a particular quality to a presidential ultimatum delivered in capital letters on a social media platform in the early hours. It is not the language of persuasion. It is the
