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UPDATED with Senate vote and White House confirmation, 1 PM: The White House has confirmed what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said today: President Donald Trump will sign the bipartisan bill to fund the government and avoid another shutdown — and POTUS also will follow through on his plan to declare a…

POTUS got off to a busy start Saturday, reminding the nation that there could be another government shutdown soon, because "21 days goes very quickly." He also touted the slogan "build a wall & crime will fall."

“I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government,” President Donald Trump, the man who singlehandedly shut down the government, announced at a Friday afternoon presser. “In a short while I will sign a bill to open the government for three weeks,” he…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed President Donald Trump via Twitter just before the dawn of Thursday and shortly after POTUS announced he would postpone SOTU and instead deliver “in the near future!” from the House chamber. Pelosi, who controls the keys to that chamber, had said he would be invited back when the…

Will he or won’t he? And if so, where and will he? Looks like we finally have an answer. Donald Trump fired off a pair of tweets tonight confirming that he will wait to deliver the annual State of the Union Address until after the partial shutdown of the federal government is over. Tonight’s social media governance…

UPDATED with Donald Trump’s response: “We just found out she's canceled it and that's a great blotch on the incredible country that we all love,” President Donald Trump told reporters at the WhIte House this afternoon, of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response to his letter trying to bully her into letting him deliver…

President Donald Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi daring her to keep him from delivering his State of the Union Address from the House of Representatives chamber on Tuesday. After previously inviting Trump to deliver his SOTU on January 29, Pelosi last week sent him a letter calling on him to postpone…

Furloughed federal employees have got a friend in Broadway’s Carole King musical Beautiful: Producers have announced that workers hit by President Donald Trump’s partial government shutdown will be given free admission to select performances of the hit production. "The shutdown has affected so many government…

In advance of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address, which he says he will deliver on Tuesday, whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi likes it or not, POTUS has unveiled his catchy new Border Wall Mantra: “BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL!” Trump tweeted this morning. “This is the new theme, for two years…

President Donald Trump observed Martin Luther King Jr. day praising federal employees who have not been paid in a month due to his government shutdown that they are “GREAT PATRIOTS,” and promising  them “WE WILL WIN BIG!” at the southern border. “Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for standing up for the…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has not yet heard from President Donald Trump, 24 hours after sending him a letter suggesting that the State of the Union Address be delayed until he re-opens the government or that he deliver it in a letter or from the Oval Office. As House speaker, Pelosi gets to decide when and…

Seth Meyers believes it’s becoming clear that President Donald Trump has no way out of the government shutdown he claimed as his own last month and now has boxed himself into. The Saturday Night Live alum — Meyers, not Trump — took “A Closer Look” at the national mess on his NBC late-night show tonight. Watch the…