The partial government shutdown became the longest in U.S. history as of midnight last night, a dubious accomplishment for the record-shattering presidency of Donald Trump. The impasse between Trump and Congress has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers, as well as millions of federal contractors, with no income. The shutdown is causing real financial…
Both U.S. Senators from Maryland said Sunday that they believe the Senate shouldn’t consider any new legislation that is not related to the partial government shutdown . They said that no new business should be brought up in the Senate until the upper body takes a vote to reopen the government. The two senators are…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke with Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli on ‘Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas’ to weigh in on the news that Republican President Trump leaked highly classified information about an ISIS plot to the Russians.
McConnell’s response was a call for less drama.