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Undated: Senate / Trump cabinet nominations
https://www.senate.gov/reference/Trump_cabinet.htm
Undated: Trump cabinet
nominations
https://www.senate.gov/reference/Trump_cabinet.htm
November 21: Which Republican Senators Are
Most Likely To Fight Trump? ... And which Democrats are most likely to
work with him?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-republican-senators-are-most-likely-to-fight-trump/
-- 2017 --
January 27:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/democrats-in-congress-can-block-trumps-agenda-if-they-want-to-heres-how/?utm_term=.b55854bdd64e
February 15:
President
Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of labor, Andrew Puzder, has formally
withdrawn himself from consideration for the position, Puzder announced
Wednesday — a rare move for a Cabinet-level pick. ... President Barack Obama had
three nominees withdraw, though only one of them formally withdrew by submitting
paperwork to the Senate, the Senate said. Only 10 Cabinet-level nominees have
ever formally withdrawn, according to the
U.S Senate.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-secretary-labor-pick-andrew-puzder-withdraws-nomination/story?id=45517721
April 5: The Senate Should Censure Trump ...
It’s been done once before, against Andrew Jackson. Trump has disgraced the
office of the presidency, so it’s time to do it again.
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-senate-should-censure-trump/
April 7: A bipartisan group of 61 senators sent a letter to Senate
leaders Friday urging them to maintain the 60-vote threshold for filibusters
involving legislation, which they said is needed to ensure bipartisanship
remains a component of passing bills through the chamber.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/senate-filibuster-rules-letter/index.html
April 29: Trump On Senate: "A Very Rough
System," "An Archaic System" That's "A Bad Thing For The Country"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/29/trump_on_senate_a_very_rough_system_an_archaic_system_thats_a_bad_thing_for_the_country.html
May 30: [Trump tweet:] "The U.S. Senate
should switch to 51 votes, immediately, and get Healthcare and TAX CUTS
approved, fast and easy. Dems would do it, no doubt!" ... This is the president
telling Mitch McConnell to take the
"nuclear option" to its full conclusion, ending the practice of requiring 60
votes to pass legislation through the Senate.
https://www.axios.com/trump-tells-mcconnell-how-to-run-the-senate-2426806839.html
June 14: President Trump Wants Senate
Republicans to Pass a 'Generous' Obamacare Replacement
http://fortune.com/2017/06/14/donald-trump-senate-republicans-obamacare-replacement/
June 26: Trump Rallies Senate Support for
Health Care ... White House Watch: President Trump frets about Democratic
obstruction.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-rallies-senate-support-for-health-care/article/2008625
July 28: Senate Republicans are getting more
aggressive in fighting back at President Trump’s attacks on Attorney General
Jeff Sessions.
Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says there will be “hell to pay” if Sessions
is fired, while Sen.
Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
warned he won’t hold hearings to confirm a successor to Sessions.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/344338-senate-gop-steps-up-defense-of-sessions
July 26: Congressional Republicans on
Tuesday warned President Trump not to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
fearing it could be the first step in an attempt to kill the federal
investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections ...
"If he fired Mueller, that would be a problem. It wouldn't pass the smell test,"
added a second House Republican, who requested anonymity in order to speak
candidly. "The American people would demand we do something."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-warn-trump-dont-fire-jeff-sessions/article/2629703
July 29: Trump: Senate Republicans ‘Look
Like Fools’ ... President attacks GOP in confusing tweetst
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-senate-republicans-look-like-fools-should-change-rules
August 3: The Senate Finally Gives Trump His
Administration ... Democrats relented on confirming dozens of presidential
nominees to key government posts, days after the collapse of the Republican
effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/senate-trump-nominees/535884/
August 4: How the Senate Is Subtly Resisting
Trump by Not Taking a Recess ... By having "pro-forma" sessions, the Senate is
technically not going to recess, which means the president can't fill open
positions without their approval
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-senate-is-subtly-resisting-trump-by-not-taking-a-recess-w496036
August 4: The Senate Seems More Willing To
Push Back Against Trump Than The House — Why?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-senate-seems-more-willing-to-push-back-against-trump-than-the-house-why/
August 4: How Senators Are Trying to Block
Trump From Firing Mueller
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/how-senators-are-trying-to-block-trump-from-firing-mueller.html
August 9: At some point in 2019 (if not
sooner) a Republican Senator may walk into the Oval Office and say to President
Trump: “Mr. President, we don’t have the votes,” at which point the Trump
presidency will end in a resignation or a conviction in the Senate.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/08/09/president-trump-needs-friends-in-the-senate/
August 18: Donald Trump is 'just six Senate
votes from impeachment' ... Twelve Republican Senators have 'no fear of the
President'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-impeachment-us-senate-six-votes-congress-president-house-russia-a7899636.html
September 12: Bye-Bye, Blue Slip?
Republicans want to trash another century-old Senate norm to help Trump.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/09/will_republicans_trash_another_senate_tradition_to_help_trump.html
September 13: President Trump cheers
long-shot Senate effort to revisit Affordable Care Act repeal ...
http://www.thegazette.com/president-trump-cheers-long-shot-senate-effort-to-revisit-affordable-care-act-repeal-20170914
http://www.thegazette.com/president-trump-cheers-long-shot-senate-effort-to-revisit-affordable-care-act-repeal-20170914
October 5: President Donald Trump suggested
Thursday that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigate media companies that
he believes are reporting information that is “just made up.”
“Why Isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR
country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!” the president
tweeted from his personal account early Thursday.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/05/Trump-suggests-Senate-Intelligence-Committee-investigate-media-companies/stories/201710050296
October 8: Trump tweeted Sunday morning in a
series of posts attacking [Senator Bob] Corker ... The senator responded to
Trump's tweets with an insult later in the morning, calling the White House "an
adult day care center" in a Twitter post.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/donald-trump-bob-corker-tweets/index.html
October 8: Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that
President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless
threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World
War III.” ... “He concerns me,” Mr. Corker added. “He would have to concern
anyone who cares about our nation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/us/politics/trump-corker.html
October 24:
Trump: Bob Corker couldn’t get elected dog catcher
http://nypost.com/2017/10/24/trump-bob-corker-couldnt-get-elected-dog-catcher/
October 24: Donald Trump has now personally
attacked 1 in 5 Republican senators
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/politics/trump-gop-senators-corker/index.html
October 25: Trump defies Republican critics
with Senate 'love fest'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41743702
November 8: Senate Rushing to Confirm Trump
Judges Who Back Voter Suppression, CAP Issue Brief Says ...
President Donald Trump’s judicial
nominees are moving through the Senate at a rapid pace despite major concerns
about problematic records on voting rights, hateful rhetoric, and racial
hostilities, according to a new issue brief from the Center for American
Progress.
Despite the concerns, Trump has seen
more than twice the number of Senate confirmations as former President Barack
Obama did at this point. The Senate Judiciary Committee also is moving faster,
holding hearings for more than two dozen of Trump’s nominees, nearly twice as
many as Obama at this point.
https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2017/11/08/442446/release-senate-rushing-confirm-trump-judges-back-voter-suppression-cap-issue-brief-says/
November 15: Ivanka
Trump says there’s a “special place in hell” for child predators and says she
has no reason to doubt the accounts of women who say they were treated
inappropriately as teenagers by Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for Senate in
Alabama.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/15/ivanka-trump-roy-moore-child-predators-244964
November 16: Al Franken Issues Apology After
Accusation of Forcible Kissing and Groping ... during a 2006 U.S.O. tour of the
Middle East before he took public office ... Mr. Franken, who has been mentioned
as a possible presidential candidate, almost immediately released an apology to
the newscaster, Leeann Tweeden, who said that Mr. Franken forcibly kissed her
during a rehearsal and groped her for a photo as she slept.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/us/politics/al-franken-sexual-harassment-groping-forcible-kissing.html
December 3: Political Appointee Tracker
https://ourpublicservice.org/issues/presidential-transition/political-appointee-tracker.php
December 4:
December 5: Republican Sen. Jeff Flake,
who's been adamantly opposed to Republican Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore,
posted a photo Tuesday of a check with his signature on it that was addressed to
Moore's Democratic rival, Doug Jones.
Flake's
Twitter account posted the image of the $100 check along with the caption,
"Country over Party."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/jeff-flake-writes-doug-jones-check/index.html
December 12: Trump slams Senate critic with
tweet called sexually suggestive
Half a dozen Democratic senators have called on President Donald Trump to resign
over sexual misconduct allegations. On Tuesday morning he singled out one of
them for attack — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — and with a sexually
suggestive tweet that immediately provoked new criticism.Trump wrote that
“Lightweight” Gillibrand “would come to my office ‘begging’ for campaign
contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them).”
http://www.theday.com/article/20171212/NWS13/171219791
December 13: Democrat wins US Senate seat in
Alabama setback for Trump
http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/democrat-wins-us-senate-seat-alabama-setback-trump/
December 14:
Donald
Trump has claimed he never believed failed Republican
Senate candidate Roy
Moore could win in Alabama, saying the "deck was stacked against him".
Mr Trump endorsed Mr Moore despite a number of sexual
harassment allegations against the former
Alabama justice.
The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strane [Alabama Republican who lost in
September runoff] (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore
will not be able to win the General Election," the U.S. President said in a
Twitter post on Wednesday.
"I was right! Roy worked hard but the deck was
stacked against him!"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-roy-moore-alabama-senate-election-twitter-not-able-to-win-updates-latest-a8107321.html
December 26: A major Utah newspaper slammed
the state's senior senator, Orrin Hatch, in a scathing editorial Monday, calling
on him not to seek re-election.
The Salt Lake Tribune, labeling the Republican senator "Utahn of the Year,"
took issue with Hatch's role in President Donald Trump's decision to
shrink national monuments in Utah and his role in the GOP's package of tax
cuts and reform.
The paper's editorial board also said its position on Hatch was due to "his
utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power."
The Tribune's criticism of Hatch is tied closely to Hatch's support of Trump, a
controversial figure in heavily Republican Utah.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/26/politics/orrin-hatch-utah-salt-lake-tribune/index.html
December 29: Republicans are mulling
changing the Senate's rules to speed up consideration of
President Trump's nominees.
GOP senators want to cut down the amount of debate time needed to confirm
hundreds of the president’s picks, arguing Democrats are using the Senate’s
rulebook to stonewall and slow-walk nominees and the GOP agenda.
Republicans have been privately discussing the potential changes for months, but
support for the move appears to be growing amid mounting frustration about the
pace of nomination votes.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366260-senate-gop-seeks-to-change-rules-for-trump-picks
-- 2018 --
Undated: Trump cabinet nominations
https://www.senate.gov/reference/Trump_cabinet.htm
January 5: Two Republican senators are
asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into
Christopher Steele, the author of a controversial opposition research dossier on
President Trump.
Sens.
Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and
Lindsey Graham (S.C.) sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray asking that they
investigate if the former British intelligence agent lied to federal
authorities.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/367631-gop-senators-request-criminal-investigation-of-trump-dossier-author
January 9:
Donald Trump’s Judicial Takeover Can Only Be Stopped if Democrats
Win the Senate
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/trump-judicial-nominees-2018-senate-democrats/
January 11:
Trump's
Racism Rears Its Ugly Head as Bipartisan Senate
Group Proposes Principles of a DACA Deal.
https://www.nilc.org
January 21: Senate Republicans Reject
Trump’s Call To End The Filibuster Rule ... The president tweeted that a way to
end the shutdown would be to simply change the Senate procedures.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-filibuster-reject-trump_us_5a64d801e4b0dc592a09d354
January 25: Nominations: Where are President
Trump and the Senate Taking the Courts?
https://fedsoc.org/events/nominations-where-are-president-trump-and-the-senate-taking-the-courts
February 1: One of the few Senate Democrats
who has Trump’s ear is feuding with Mike Pence ... Sen. Joe Manchin: “The Vice
President’s comments are exactly why Washington sucks.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/1/16959450/joe-manchin-mike-pence-west-virginia-senate-2018
February 1: Trump Implores Senate To Vote On
Hardline Immigration Bill ... Trump said they would either have something that
is “fair and equitable and secure, or we’ll have nothing at all.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-senate-immigration_us_5a733cade4b01ce33eb09719
February 2: Mitt Romney to Make Utah Senate
Race Announcement on Feb. 15
Mitt Romney took another step toward running for a U.S. Senate seat from Utah
when he tweeted on Thursday about an upcoming announcement regarding the 2018
race. Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate,
announced in January that he would
retire at the end of the year, a move many saw as clearing the way for
Romney to seek his seat.
http://time.com/5129796/mitt-romney-utah-senate-announcement-orrin-hatch/
February 6: Duckworth calls out 'Cadet Bone
Spurs' after Trump's 'treasonous' remark
An Illinois Democrat who was seriously wounded in Iraq derisively referred to
President Donald Trump's draft deferments after Trump called Democrats
"treasonous" for not clapping during his State of the Union speech.
"We don't live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military
and in the Senate—to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when
he demands I clap," Sen. Tammy Duckworth
tweeted Monday evening.
Duckworth, an Army veteran who lost her legs while serving in Iraq, appeared to
be referencing Trump's draft deferments. Trump received five draft deferments
throughout the Vietnam War, and on one occasion, Trump
received a deferment because of bone spurs.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/politics/tammy-duckworth-cadet-bone-spurs/index.html
February 8: Trump's Fed nominee barely
escapes Senate committee vot
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-fed-nominee-barely-escapes-senate-committee-vote/article/2648508
February 9:
Senate Democrats in Trump
States Raise More Than GOP Challengers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-09/senate-democrats-in-trump-states-raise-more-than-gop-challengers
February 9: How One Republican Broke With
Tradition to Help Trump Confirm More Judges ... As chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley decided to overturn an unwritten
rule that both home-state senators had to consent to a judicial pick for it to
move forward. Using paperwork known as “blue slips,” senators from the minority
party could use the process to halt the president’s more controversial judge
picks.
http://time.com/5141506/chuck-grassley-blue-slips-trump-judges/
February 9: Donald Trump Joins With Russian
Bots to Trash Mark Warner on Twitter ... Both the president and pro-Russian
interests are promoting a Fox News story revealing the Democratic senator’s
texts.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/donald-trump-joins-with-russian-bots-to-trash-mark-warner-on-twitter/
February 10:
Democrats dominating Senate fundraising
battle
Nine of the 10 Democrats up for reelection in Trump states raised $1 million.
None of their GOP opponents hit that mark.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/10/democrats-senate-fundraising-2018-402087
February 11: Election may test anti-Trump
winds, affect Senate control
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/election-may-test-anti-trump-winds-affect-senate-control/
February 11: Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is
undecided as to whether to seek reelection next year, according to the senator,
a development that threatens to reshape the Senate’s power structure and
Republican attempts to keep the majority.
Corker, who chairs the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is still
considering whether to run for a third term next year. His retirement would
cause a reshuffling on top Senate committees and potentially tighten the race
for control of the Senate, which heavily favors Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/11/bob-corker-considers-retiring-242553
February 11: Sen. Bob Corker is standing by
his decision not to seek re-election, a senior adviser says
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/11/sen-bob-corker-sticking-his-decision-not-seek-re-election-his-office-says/327432002/
February 11: Senator wants docs from estate
Trump sold to Russian billionaire
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/senator-docs-estate-trump-sold-russian-billionaire-article-1.3814034
February 15: Trump administration
eviscerates bipartisan immigration plan as Senate shows little progress
The Trump administration offered venomous criticism of a bipartisan immigration
plan Thursday, as senators struggled to reach a consensus on a bill to protect
young immigrants from deportation and boost border security.
The Senate later blocked that measure and another favored by President
Donald Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/trump-administration-criticizes-senate-daca-immigration-plan.html
February 15: President Trump rejects
bipartisan immigration efforts, compounding Senate bills on DACA
... the president’s demand that Republicans heed his criteria for any
legislation he would sign, including dramatic cuts in legal immigration, created
new doubts about whether the Senate could reach consensus.
“We can’t hide, we can’t run away from it and I’m hopeful we’ll do it this
week,” Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, told reporters.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/President-Trump-rejects-bipartisan-immigration-12614686.php
May 16: Senate committee agrees with
intelligence community assessment of election meddling, breaking with GOP House
investigation
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/senate-committee-agrees-intelligence-community-election-meddling/index.html
May 16: New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand spoke from the Senate floor Thursday trying to force Senate
leadership's hand to advance sexual harassment legislation, which would overhaul
how such complaints are handled on Capitol Hill.
"Enough is enough, we should do better," she continued. "We have waited a
hundred days and we should not have to wait any longer, so I urge my colleagues
to do the right thing now to support this bill, fix this system here in Congress
that is failing ... on this issue of sexual harassment. This one is as easy as
it gets. So lets have a vote. And lets pass it."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-sexual-harassment-legislation/index.html
May 21: Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders
said Monday he will run for re-election on an agenda that would prioritize
working families.
The campaign said Sanders would kick off his re-election bid with a series of
rallies across Vermont next month.
Sanders ... is among the list of possible contenders for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 2020 ....
"Our struggle to create a government which represents all of us and not just the
one percent — a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial
and environmental justice — must continue," Sanders wrote in a statement
released by the campaign.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article211577659.html
May 24: Senate Bill on Congressional Sexual
Misconduct Has Limited Reforms
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/24/headlines/senate_bill_on_congressional_sexual_misconduct_has_limited_reforms
June 5: Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell announced Tuesday the Senate will skip much of its treasured August
recess to press ahead confirming the President's nominees and passing government
spending bills.
The move follows months of frustration by GOP leaders -- and President Donald
Trump -- over the countless Democratic filibusters that have dramatically slowed
progress in the Senate.
McConnell's decision upset Democrats, many of whom are up for re-election and
would rather be home campaigning.
"The fact that the Republicans have resorted to keeping Democrats off the
campaign trail in August shows you just how nervous they are about November," a
senior Senate Democratic aide told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/mitch-mcconnell-cancels-august-recess/index.html
July 26: Senators offer bipartisan IRS
reform bill
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/398986-senators-offer-bipartisan-irs-reform-bill
September 2: The Senate’s final verdict on
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh – whose high-stakes, high-wire
confirmation hearing begins Tuesday – will hinge on the views of just a handful
of lawmakers.
As it stands, Republicans hold a razor-thin, 50-49 majority with one vacancy.
Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey will soon appoint a successor to the late
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., but even then the GOP majority can suffer few
defections.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/02/in-kavanaugh-confirmation-fight-just-handful-senators-hold-key.html
September 28: Trump on Kavanaugh delay:
Senate has to 'do what they think is right'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/28/politics/white-house-brett-kavanaugh-votes/index.html
October 6: The Senate confirmed Brett M.
Kavanaugh as the 114th Supreme Court justice on Saturday by one of the narrowest
margins in history amid mass protests, ending a vitriolic battle over his
nomination and solidifying a conservative majority on the court.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kavanaugh-vote-divided-senate-poised-to-confirm-trumps-nominee/2018/10/06/64bf69fa-c969-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html?utm_term=.69a42a1dd5d1
October 11: Senate heads home to campaign
after deal on Trump nominees
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/411087-senate-heads-home-to-campaign-after-deal-on-trump-nominees
October 26: Trump
officials irked that Border Patrol union endorsed 3 Senate Democrats
It's an “egregious” action on “the existential issue of this election,”
one White House official told POLITICO.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/26/border-patrol-union-senate-democrats-894886
October 27: Trump, Republicans Continue
Remaking The Federal Courts — Even As Senate On Recess
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/27/660643999/trump-republicans-continue-remaking-the-federal-courts-even-as-senate-on-recess
December 17: At the turn of the 18th
century, a newly elected president of the United States—only the second in the
nation’s then-brief history—cautioned the American people about “the danger to
our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our
free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” In particular, John Adams
pointed to threats from abroad, warning that if a changed election outcome “can
be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by
terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the
American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern
us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves.” Speaking before a joint
session of Congress, he thus pleaded with the U.S. Senate and the House of
Representatives to “[preserve] our Constitution from its natural enemies,”
including “the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign
influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments.”1
The threat of foreign influence over our elections did not wane in the
intervening 220 years: Today, the United States has a president whose election
was aided by the fraud and intrigue of a foreign nation. Americans who watched
how President Donald Trump, in the words of the late Sen. John McCain, “abased
himself … abjectly before a tyrant” in Helsinki, cannot be faulted for wondering
whether John Adams’s long-ago warning has become a reality.2
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/12/17/464235/following-the-money/
December 22: U.S. government partially shuts
down as Congress resists funding Trump’s border wall
McConnell adjourns Senate until Dec. 27
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/government-shutdown-draws-closer-as-lawmakers-wrangle-over-border-funding-2018-12-21
December 27:
The Senate returned to work for the first time
since Saturday but quickly adjourned after scheduling no votes, signaling
that little, if any, progress has been made toward resolving the budget impasse
that shut down a quarter of the federal government.
President Donald Trump shows
no sign of backing down from his demand for funding for a wall along the
nation’s southern border.
“Whatever it takes,” Trump said Wednesday when asked how long the shutdown could
last.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/27/government-shutdown-no-end-sight-standoff-enters-sixth-day/2415605002/
December 27: US government shutdown over
border wall will last into 2019
Both houses adjourn without acting to end closure, as Democrats prepare to
assume control of Congress next week
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/27/us-government-shutdown-continue-2019-trump
December 27: Shutdown affects court cases
that involve Trump
The partial government shutdown has prompted the chief judge of Manhattan
federal courts to suspend work on civil cases involving U.S. government lawyers.
The order suspends action in several civil lawsuits in which President Donald
Trump is a defendant.
Judge Colleen McMahon said in a written order that the suspension will remain in
effect until the business day after the president signs a budget appropriation
law restoring Justice Department funding.
http://www.kplctv.com/2018/12/27/latest-trump-returns-his-attention-shutdown/
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