Shutdown

Meyers tore into claims Trump is a "political genius."

"I would hardly be able to stand it," Hirono told MSNBC Thursday.

The Fed announced a rate hike Wednesday.

Congress and the president must agree on a funding measure by midnight Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown. 

34 percent of Republicans said they would use their own money to privately fund a border wall, and 10 percent of Democrats said they would contribute.

"This was a 10-minute briefing Sarah," one reporter can be heard yelling as Sarah Huckabee Sanders left the room.

"If the 63 million people who voted for Donald Trump each contributed $80, that would get you near the $5 billion mark."

The president is prepared to own a government shutdown, should one commence, saying during a meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer that he'd be "proud to shut down the government for border security."

The president reportedly grew frustrated after he took responsibility for any government shutdown over the budget impasse.

"It is not clear how Trump could have appeared any more irrational and unhinged," Jennifer Rubin said.

The retort came as part of a long, tense, on-camera meeting between President Donald Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over how to avoid a government shutdown.

A second bug found in the service prompted the decision to change the timeline.

Opening statements will begin on November 13.

The security checkpoint was reopened after a bomb squad determined the object in question was, in fact, a toy.

President Donald Trump spent much of the government shutdown laying blame on congressional Democrats.

If Democrats' attempts to pass a significant immigration deal end up getting stymied in the House, then the shutdown will have been a complete failure. 

Senators needed a tool to prevent Republicans and Democrats from talking over each other during debates.

"We will never forget the names of EVERY single liberal obstructionist responsible for this disgusting shutdown," a Trump campaign email said.

The Senate has voted to temporarily end the government shutdown, here are the winners and losers of the deal.

The Senate has foregone providing deportation relief for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the country as minors—for now.

What's next? Spoiler alert: possibly another shutdown.

The government shutdown could lead to the death of American coal miners.

Mike Pompeo says that the American spy agency will not be affected by the closure.

"Problems start from the top and have to get solved from the top, and the president's the leader, and he's got to get everybody in a room, and he's got to lead," Trump once said.

In the government shutdown blame game, politicians are accusing one another of holding CHIP hostage. Here's everything to know about that program.

The White House and GOP officials have branded the federal government freeze the "Schumer Shutdown."

Around a million federal workers won't be going into the office. So what services will be affected?

Trump's senior policy advisor, Stephen Miller, is hindering progress on an immigration deal, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters.

Gutierrez added that Democrats were already willing to "go build the wall themselves" if it meant protecting dreamers, but the president shifted the goalposts at the last minute—again.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Sunday that the House would agree to an even shorter short-term spending bill to end the government shutdown.