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Ryan Hopes to Avert Shutdown by Funding CHIP and Cutting Taxes The Speaker hopes to woo Democrats with new funding for children’s health care — and conservatives, with cuts to Obamacare taxes.
Why the Trump Administration’s DACA Policy Is Indefensible Trump does not want to deport the Dreamers — he only wants to torture them until Congress agrees to pass legislation it otherwise wouldn’t.
The GOP’s Not-So-Cunning Plan to Blame a Shutdown on Democrats It involves insisting they’re at the mercy of the Democratic minority, and Trump is, as he put it, “the least racist person.”
DACA Renewal Applications Are Being Processed Again Trump says the program is “probably dead,” but the USCIS is now obeying a court order to restart the acceptance of renewals.
How Trump’s ‘Sh*thole’ Remark Could Help Provoke a Government Shutdown It gives Democrats a perfect excuse to draw a hard line on immigration.
Defense-Spending Battle Could Trigger Government Shutdown While all eyes are on the fight over immigration policy, spending disputes, particularly over defense, could shut down the government, too.
Trump Rejects Bipartisan Dreamers Deal The president demands an immigration bill that can win Democratic support — and make all of his far-right friends happy.
The Progressive Case for Giving Trump His Stupid Wall A jobs program for border-state construction workers will do less harm than many of the concessions that Democrats are poised to make on DACA.
Trump Ending DACA Was Never About the Law. A Federal Judge Noticed. The administration didn’t offer much legal justification for killing the program. Now a court has ordered that protections for Dreamers be restored.
Trump on Russia Investigation: I Do Things ‘100 Percent Proper’ The president weighed in on that and several other topics during an impromptu press availability on Saturday.
Nobody Seems to Know What Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Wall’ Would Look Like Years after Trump started talking about a border wall, congressional negotiators trying to cut a spending deal still aren’t sure how it’s defined.
Why a Government Shutdown Is Looming Again in January Another month of GOP rule, another month of stressful and arbitrary deadlines.
Trump: Give Me a Border Wall or I’ll Deport the Dreamers If the president means what he says, then there will be no DACA deal — and 800,000 Dreamers will become subject to deportation.
Britney Comes Out in Support of Dreamers Spears calls for Congress to create a permanent solution to the current DACA crisis.
Delirious December Gives Way to Jittery January As Congress Passes Spending Bill Congress has kicked multiple cans down the road to January, but they won’t be able to stall any longer.
Democrats Abandon Threats to Shut Down Government to Protect Dreamers After some saber-rattling, congressional Democratic leaders have decided to pursue Dreamer protections through bipartisan negotiations.
Congress Nearing Deal to Stave Off Shutdown Showdown Until January Anything could still happen, but it looks like the government will stay open through Christmas, with a real battle on tap for January.
Shutting Down the Government for Dreamers May Be Risky for Democrats Of all the reasons for triggering a government shutdown, reestablishing DACA protections ranks low in public support.
After Tax Cuts, Republicans Eye Civil War House conservatives just fired the opening salvo in a looming intraparty fight over spending, immigration, and perhaps, the special counsel.
Will the Government Avoid a Shutdown? 5 Key Questions A government shutdown is unlikely. But if talks wander onto non-spending topics, and each side thinks the other will be blamed, it could happen.
McConnell’s Making Promises That He Needs Democrats to Keep Some of the deals McConnell is cutting involve a bipartisan spending bill that’s designed to prevent a government shutdown. That’s dangerous.
Republicans Trying to Engineer a Government Shutdown They Can Blame on Democrats In the latest maneuvering over spending, Republicans want Democrats to go to the mats on immigration policy and perhaps trigger a government shutdown.
Good Place Actor Bambadjan Bamba Reveals He’s an Undocumented ImmigrantBambadjan Bamba, who also appears in the upcoming Black Panther , came to America as a child. He spoke up in support of DACA.
December Disaster Looms As Spending, Debt, and Tax Controversies Pile Up The legislative train wreck temporarily avoided when Donald Trump cut a deal with Democrats in September is back for real.
Senate Republicans Rule Out DACA Fix in Spending Bill And Steve Bannon has (reportedly) convinced a key House Republican to oppose legal status for Dreamers — in any bill.
Paul Ryan (Reportedly) Plans to Let Democrats Save DACA for Him The Speaker told House conservatives that protections for Dreamers will be a part of the year-end spending bill.
GOP Senator Says Trump Told Him He Won’t Stick to DACA Deadline The president wants Congress to come up with a fix by March 5 — but if not they’ll “give it some more time.”
Roy Moore May Have Killed the DACA Deal Steve Bannon branded Moore’s victory as the revolt of the Trumpen proletariat. The president bought his hype.
Trump Flips Again, Demands Broad Immigration Crackdown in Exchange for DACA Fix It’s unclear if it’s a starting point for negotiations or a totally unrealistic line in the sand.
This White House Aide Is Trying to Sabotage Trump’s DACA Deal The Breitbart wing of the White House is pushing for Trump to demand radical cuts to legal immigration in exchange for showing Dreamers his mercy.
Trump Administration Supports Path to Citizenship, a.k.a. Amnesty, for Dreamers In the latest in a series of flip-flops, the Trump administration now seems to be endorsing eventual citizenship for beneficiaries of a deal on DACA.
Nancy Pelosi Will Not Be Talked Over by Men “Do the women get to talk around here?” Pelosi asked at Wednesday’s White House dinner.
World Upside Down: Breitbart News Prefers Ryan to Trump on Dreamers Deal Trump’s most reliable media allies are comparing his DACA deal to Bush 41 raising taxes, and even prefer their longtime target Paul Ryan’s position.
Does the GOP Base Love Trump More Than It Hates ‘Amnesty’? As Trump pursues a DREAM Act, we’re about to learn whether Trumpism is more of a personality cult than nativist movement.
Trump’s Immigration Flip-Flop His astonishing (if shaky) deal with Democrats is a miniature version of the immigration reform efforts that divided the GOP in the recent past.
Pelosi and Schumer Say They Struck a Deal With Trump to Replace DACA Democrats claim Trump agreed to new border-security measures, but no border wall — though the White House disputed that.
The Alabama Senate Race Is a Sprint to the Right In most any other state, the richly funded Luther Strange would go after Senate runoff opponent Roy Moore as a dangerous fanatic. But not in Alabama.
Steve Bannon’s Nationalism Isn’t About the Economy, Stupid If Bannon cared about his economic agenda, he would want Trump to work with Democrats. But he doesn’t, because he only cares about immigration.
5 Reasons Why a Dreamer Bill Could Really Happen Could Trump’s one legislative achievement be a bill to help immigrants?
Why This Dreamer Risked Deportation to Protest Donald Trump Basilisa Alonso is one of nine undocumented youths who were arrested for protesting Donald Trump’s repeal of the DACA program.
15 States Sue Trump Over Decision to End DACA Attorneys are arguing that the president was motivated by racism.
Gina Rodriguez Is Producing Immigration Dramas for CBS and CW One show will be about a teenager who would have qualified for DACA.
Trump Promises to ‘Revisit’ DACA in 6 Months, Though That Isn’t Really Possible He suggested that if Congress fails to act, he’ll extend the program himself, though his administration spent the day arguing that that’s illegal.
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Watch Late-Night Hosts React to Trump’s DACA Announcement Colbert, Kimmel, and Meyers blasted the president’s decision.
Politicians React to Trump’s Decision to Rescind DACA The decision has split members of the Republican Party.
Your Guide to Fighting Trump’s Decision to End DACA How to protest and who in Congress to call to stand up for the rights of immigrants.
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