Government Shutdown

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2019. Photo by Jim Young/Reuters

Analysis: Shutdown saga delivers lesson on political compromise, defies skeptics

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks about security at the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters

WATCH: Trump declares national emergency to build border wall

Trump did not say on Friday when he would make such a declaration, but the move will allow him to bypass Congress to spend more money to erect barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border.

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters following a meeting with congressional leadership on the ongoing partial government shutdown and border security in the Rose Garden of the White House in on Jan. 4, 2019. Photo by Jim Young/Reuters

WATCH: Trump declares national emergency to build border wall

Battling with one branch of government and opening a new confrontation with another, President Donald Trump announced Friday he was declaring a national emergency to fulfill his pledge to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

By Alan Fram, Catherine Lucey, Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

Trump and Congress gear up for a fight over national emergency plan

Congress is preparing to send a government funding package that contains a compromise on allocations for border security to President Trump, who has announced his intention to sign the bill. However, Trump also plans to declare a national emergency in…

A migrant, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, looks at U.S. border patrol officers through holes in the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico Nov. 25, 2018. Photo by REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

WATCH: Senate approves border security and funding bill

President Donald Trump will sign Congress' border security compromise, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday.

What’s in the massive border security and funding bill?

By Lisa Desjardins

The funding and border security bill is 1,159 pages. We have been studying the bill carefully so you don’t have to. Here are some highlights and key details.

Congress scrambles to iron out complicated funding legislation

Congressional negotiators revealed more about a proposed funding deal Wednesday, but President Trump has yet to indicate whether he'll sign it. With just two days left before a second government shutdown would take effect, the pressure is on to hammer…

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Senate Republican signals opening for contractor back pay, in critical hour of negotiation

While a tentative bipartisan agreement exists to fund the government and avoid a second shutdown, more work must be accomplished quickly to meet Friday's deadline. Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., talks to Judy Woodruff about the outlook for President…

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WATCH: Trump tells law enforcement conference that border wall is ‘on its way’

President Donald Trump told a conference of the Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs Association that the wall he envisions in some places along the southern border would be harder to scale than Mount Everest.

Unhappy with deal, Trump still doesn’t expect a new shutdown

By Jill Colvin, Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press

Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appears to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement that would head off a threatened second government shutdown but provide just a fraction of the money he's been demanding for…