President Trump is warning of a possible Democratic victory in November's midterm elections, seemingly lowering expectations for Republican wins well ahead of any voters heading to the ballot box.
Trump regularly notes that the party in control of the White House historically tends to lose the midterms, attributing it a "psychological factor" in voters. The president certainly has experience with the trend when in 2018, Republicans lost control of the House during his first term.
"Presidents, whether it's Republican or Democrat, when they win, it doesn't make any difference. They seem to lose the midterms," Trump told conservative talk show host Will Cain on Fox News while in Iowa this week. |
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House Democrats have informed GOP leaders that they will not help pass a funding package through a fast-track process, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill — complicating Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) plan to swiftly pass the measure and reopen the government.
The decision, first reported by Punchbowl News, comes a day after Johnson told House Republicans that he wanted to use the special process to pass the measure and bring a swift end to the partial government shutdown that began at midnight Saturday. Johnson had sought bipartisan cooperation in the effort to bypass the difficulty of getting unified Republican support under a razor-thin margin. The process of suspending the rules requires a two-thirds threshold, meaning 70 Democrats would have had to support the vote under suspension. |
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President Trump said Saturday that he hopes "enough people will use their heads" to bring a swift end to the partial government shutdown that began this weekend.
"I think it's going fine," Trump told Fox News's Jacqui Heinrich regarding government funding. "We had a big GDP…I lost a point and a half because of the last [shutdown]," he said. "So we'll see what happens. I think the Democrats don't want it to happen. Makes them look very bad, but it's not a good thing for the country. So hopefully enough people will use their heads." |
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Maryland Democrats are barreling toward a standoff over a redistricting proposal that could hand the party all of the state's eight congressional seats.
Democrats in the state House could pass a map recommended by Gov. Wes Moore's (D) redistricting advisory commission as soon as this week. It's the latest push from a Democratic governor to combat Republican-led redistricting across the country.
But the effort, cheered on by national Democrats, could be doomed in the state Senate, where chamber President Bill Ferguson (D) fears the plan will backfire on his party in the courts as control of Congress hangs in the balance in the midterms. |
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Minnesota's standoff with the Trump administration amid its immigration crackdown in the state has made a political tinderbox of the Twin Cities, as devolving clashes between protesters and federal agents stoke fears of a bigger brewing conflict.
Local officials have deemed the surge of immigration enforcement officers a "federal invasion," doubling down in the courts and in public remarks as federal confrontations with Minnesota residents turned violent, then deadly. The fatal shooting of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti brought the standoff to a cliff edge — and both President Trump and the state seem to have changed course |
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A federal judge on Saturday rejected an effort by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) to block the surge of immigration resources the Trump administration has sent to the state.
In a 30-page decision, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez ruled that Ellison is unlikely to succeed in claims that the surge violates the 10th Amendment, which protects states' rights against federal infringement. "Plaintiffs ask the Court to extend existing precedent to a new context where its application is less direct — namely, to an unprecedented deployment of armed federal immigration officers to aggressively enforce immigration statutes," Menendez wrote.
"None of the cases on which they rely have even come close," the judge added. |
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The child care industry is struggling to convince parents that its facilities are safe.
Providers are in a tough spot after months of immigration operations that have included parents taken in by authorities while dropping off or picking up their kids — as well as fraud allegations that have led to harassment at facilities around the country.
Now, a shortage of workers that was already an issue before President Trump took office is getting worse, and some parents are looking at unlicensed child care options that the federal government doesn't regulate as highly. |
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A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered the release of the 5-year-old boy and father who were transported to a detention center in the state amid the Trump administration's immigration operations in Minnesota.
In a Saturday opinion, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery admonished the administration's removal of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, saying the pair "seek nothing but the modicum of due process and the rule of law." "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency," Biery wrote. "And the rule of law be damned." |
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President Trump has invited several nations — including key U.S. allies — to join his "Board of Peace" to oversee postwar restoration efforts in the Gaza Strip, but several world leaders have rejected the request while one country had its invitation revoked.
The board was established after the first phase of Trump's 20-point peace plan to rehabilitate Gaza after Israel and Hamas reached a fragile ceasefire deal following two years of conflict that destroyed much of the territory's infrastructure and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Trump administration launched the board at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and issued invitations for 60 countries to join the board. The former businessman-turned-president will serve as chairman with veto power over the board's decisions and membership. |
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OPINION | Earlier this month, nine fishermen were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after their crab boat ran aground in rough seas near St. George Island in Alaska's Bering Sea. The crew survived, thanks to a rapid response and a bit of luck.
But the vessel itself tells a more troubling story: it was built in 1978. Nearly half a century later, it was still hauling crab in one of the most dangerous fishing grounds on Earth. |
OPINION | As someone who has served in senior positions for both Republican and Democratic elected officials in New York, I've seen my share of political theater. But few things irk me more than public servants who apply one set of rules to themselves and another to those on the front lines of law enforcement.
The recent lawsuit against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), challenging his eligibility to run for California governor on residency grounds, has brought this issue into the spotlight. |
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BY DIONNE SEARCY, ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS, RUTH MACLEANT & ERIC SCHMITT |
Top advisers from the Trump Administration sat at the head of a giant wooden table in an office near the White House in late October listening as religious activists described attacks on Christian churches and pastors in Nigeria. The activists wanted President Trump to do something about it.
Three days later, the president threatened to enter Nigeria "guns-a-blazing" to avenge what he has called a "Christian genocide." Then, on Christmas Day, Mr. Trump launched Tomahawk missiles at "terrorist scum" he said were responsible for killing Nigerian Christians. |
BY SAM KESSLER, REBECCA BALLHAUS, ELIOT BROWN & ANGUS BERWICK |
Four days before Donald Trump's inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their fledgling cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars, according to company documents and people familiar with the matter. The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities.
The deal with World Liberty Financial, which hasn't previously been reported, was signed by Eric Trump, the president's son. At least $31 million was also slated to flow to entities affiliated with the family of Steve Witkoff, a World Liberty co-founder who weeks earlier had been named U.S. envoy to the Middle East, the documents said.
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Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt showed signs of activity as Israel said that limited travel to and from the territory was set to resume Monday after years of near-complete isolation. Reopening the border crossing is a key step as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire moves ahead.
Israel announced Sunday that the crossing has opened in a test. COGAT, the Israeli military agency that controls aid to Gaza, said in a statement that the crossing was actively being prepared for fuller operation, adding that residents of Gaza would begin to pass through the crossing Monday. |
As the Trump administration pressures Iran with a massive military buildup in the region, Persian Gulf states are warning U.S. officials that Tehran's missile program remains capable of inflicting significant damage to U.S. interests in the region, according to two Western officials briefed on the matter.
Although Iran's missile program suffered critical losses in the country's 12-day war with Israel last June, an assessment produced by a U.S. ally in the gulf found, key elements remain intact and other capabilities have been rebuilt, according to the officials. They and others in this report spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the subject with the media. |
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