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Trump Bends the Knee to Pelosi, Temporarily Ends Shutdown He Created
The president of people who support the Covington Catholic crew proved that his dealmaking abilities were limited to threats and intimidation and has effectively bent the knee to Nancy Pelosi and agreed to temporarily reopen the government for three weeks as Congress continues to negotiate border security funding. During a speech from the White House…
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Trump Now Wants to Put His Wall on a Layaway Plan
President Trump is becoming desperate, so desperate that he’s now willing to put funding for his border wall on a pay-as-you-go plan. On Thursday, lawmakers shot down two dueling proposals to reopen the government. A Republican-backed proposal sought to have the full $5.7 billion for the wall and a Democrat-sponsored proposal sought to reopen the…
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Rest in Peace to the Dueling Senate Bills to Reopen the Government, Both of Which Died Quick Deaths
The Senate shot down a GOP- and White House-backed bill that would have given President Trump money for his dumb-ass wall that no one wants and also funded the government. Basically Republicans couldn’t get enough Democrats to back the bill that would have funded the full $5.7 billion needed to run a medieval wall along…
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Nancy Pelosi Suggests Trump Write State of the Union in Crayon or Reschedule for Feb. 31
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is tired of President Donald Trump’s fuckshit. As such, Pelosi is offering Trump alternatives to having an in-person State of the Union address while the government is shut down over his dumbass border wall that no one wants. According to CNN, Pelosi has asked Trump to either deliver his…
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No Check, Snowed In and No End in Sight: How Black D.C. Is Surviving Trump’s Government Shutdown
“He didn’t ask me!” yelled a heavy set 40-something-year-old guy sitting by the window in my barbershop. I had just asked everybody what they thought about President Trump’s claim that federal employees told him to keep the shutdown going. My barbershop is at the perfect demographic nexus of the D.C. metropolitan area. Nestled in a…
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The Shutdown Could End Tomorrow But Dealing With Trump Is Like Negotiating With a Criminal
Before taking office, President Donald Trump shouted from the rafters about his ability to get deals done. He truly sold white America on his business acumen and ability to seal the deal. Now we all realize that his business methods are equivalent to a goon holding a debtor’s kids in a seedy basement until he…
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Donald Trump Tells the Grinch to Hold His Beer: National Christmas Tree Unlit Due to Government Shutdown
The national Christmas tree in Washington, D.C., stood lightless and listless on Christmas Day, a casualty of the partial government shutdown, sending sectors of the country into a whirlwind of delays, stoppages and emergency adjustments to holiday plans. According to the Associated Press, several national parks had closed as a result of the government shutdown…
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‘Enough Is Enough’: House Dems Stage Sit-in on Floor of Congress Over Guns
At noon Wednesday, members of the House shut it down—all the way down. In a historic act of protest, Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives refused to observe the regular order of the House, staging a sit-in protest over the lack of legislation on gun control. The protest Wednesday occurred after House Republicans…