By Samuel Warde on January 21, 2018
Government Shutdown, Immigration Feud Closes Government, Immigration Shuts Down Government, Stalemate on Government Funding, White House message
Weird News, White House
BuzzFeed’s David Mack posted a video recording of the unprecedented attack by the White House on Democrats. The Trump administration seems to be doing everything in its power to derail any meaningful discussion in Congress regarding the government shutdown. Fact-checking website Snopes reported that, on Saturday, “The Republican-controlled White House went so far as to […]
By Samuel Warde on January 20, 2018
Budget Battles, Budget Wars, Government Funding, Government Shutdown
Barack Obama, Budget
Checkout Trump telling Fox News that the president is always to blame in the event of a government shutdown. Of course, Barack Obama was president at the time. The Democratic Coalition posted a video clip of Trump doing an interview with Fox News on their Twitter page in response to the federal government shut down. […]
By Samuel Warde on January 20, 2018
Continuing Resolution, CR, DACA, Federal Budget, Federal Shutdown, Government Funding, Government Shutdown, Government Spending, Immigration, National Defense, Shutdown
Budget, Smackdowns, Social Media, Social Media Battles, Twitter Tantrum, Twitter Trends
Twitter pulverizes Trump and his fellow Republicans for the government shutdown with #TrumpShutDown and #DoYourJob The federal government went into shutdown at midnight, after a key vote in the Senate fell short of the necessary support to keep the government open. NBC News reported that: “The proposal that failed was the one passed by the […]
By Samuel Warde on September 28, 2015
Americans do not want government shut down, Americans do not want government shut down over planned parenthood, Government Shutdown, Planned Parenthood, politics, US Voters don't shut down the government
Politics, Polls, Reproductive Rights, Republican Logic, Republicans, Right Wing Fanatics, Women's Issues
A new Quinnipiac University National poll released today shows that Americans oppose shutting down the federal government in the dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood by a margin of 69 – 23 percent, including 56 – 36 percent among Republicans. The poll also found that a slightly smaller portion of voters, 52 – 41 percent, oppose cutting […]
By Samuel Warde on November 21, 2014
Barack Obama, Congress, Executive Orders, Funding, Government Shutdown, Presidential Actions
Barack Obama, Immigration
America’s immigration system is broken and on Thursday the President announced his executive actions to fix what he can to help build a system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. Our immigration system has been broken for decades. And every day we wait to act, […]