Tag: Democratic Party

Without a spending deal between Democrat and Republican lawmakers, the U.S. government entered a partial shutdown Friday night. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

Government shutdowns prove America is the greatest country on Earth

Pete Kasperowicz · January 20, 2018 5:35 am

In the case that vulnerable Democratic incumbents - think Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., (pictured) Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Joe Manchin, D-W.V. - are pressured into taking a vote to shut down the government over DACA protections getting left out of a spending bill, it won't soon be forgotten by their opponents. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Shutdown blame game will be different for vulnerable Democrats in Trump Country

Emily Jashinsky · January 20, 2018 2:51 am

Donald Trump Jr. said there is "little doubt" in his mind that a memo circulating among members of Congress proves that the Obama administration abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in order to spy on his father's presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Trump Jr. on FISA memo: Media, Democrats working together to deceive Americans

Mandy Mayfield · January 20, 2018 2:48 am

The disagreement has nothing to do with the core of the bill. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Democrats’ DACA shutdown

Washington Examiner · January 19, 2018 11:20 pm

Thirty-one percent of Americans would blame Democrats in Congress if there's a government shutdown, while 26 percent said they would blame congressional Republicans, a CNN poll showed Friday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Plurality of Americans would blame Democrats for government shutdown: Poll

Diana Stancy Correll · January 19, 2018 10:20 pm

On Friday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., (pictured center) said, "It turns out that Donald Trump's campaign talk about helping the 'forgotten men and women' was just that - talk." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats berate Trump for ‘severely’ testing US democracy in his first year

Anna Giaritelli · January 19, 2018 7:50 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., accused Democrats of favoring a fast remedy for illegal immigration over the need to keep the government, including the military, fully funded. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell asks Democrats to support funding: ‘Stop the wild goose chase’

Susan Ferrechio · January 19, 2018 4:48 pm

Sixty-six Democrats voted against Rep. Kevin McCarthy's motion to table Rep. Al Green's proposal, a bit more than the 58 who voted the same way in December. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump impeachment gaining support among House Democrats

Pete Kasperowicz · January 19, 2018 4:21 pm

Conservative Internet pundits Diamond and Silk tell Democrats, "I understand that they are so keen on DACA. But listen, this is not Burger King, you can't have everything your way. You gonna have to come to the table. You have to negotiate."

Diamond and Silk tell Democrats: ‘This is not Burger King, you can’t have everything your way’

Anna Giaritelli · January 19, 2018 3:41 pm

Less than an hour after the House passed a temporary stopgap spending bill, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Senate Democrats are the "only thing standing in the way" of government funding and other resources and programs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Paul Ryan: Senate Democrats are ‘the only thing standing in the way’ of averting government shutdown

Diana Stancy Correll · January 19, 2018 1:30 am

A National Park Service employee posts a sign on a barricade closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the 2013 government shutdown.

Beltway Confidential

Nobody wins in a government shutdown

Emily Jashinsky · January 18, 2018 8:17 pm

Paul Ryan suggested that even without Democrats, the measure can pass the House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Paul Ryan: ‘I think we are in a good place’ on spending vote

Susan Ferrechio · January 18, 2018 5:16 pm