U.S. federal judge rejects Congress' challenge of Trump's border wall funding
A U.S. federal judge on Monday denied a House of Representatives request to prevent President Donald Trump from tapping Defense Department money for his proposed border wall with Mexico, saying Congress lacked authority to sue. Trump's victory is muted by a federal ruling in California ...
Pope hits leaders who build walls to keep migrants out, saying they ultimately imprison themselves
Pope Francis said on Sunday that political leaders who want walls and other barriers to keep migrants out "will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build. The pope made his comments to reporters aboard the plane returning from Morocco in response to a ...
Senate rebukes Trump on border emergency; president vows 'VETO!'
President Donald Trump suffered an embarrassing defeat Thursday at the hands of US senators, including fellow Republicans, who voted to terminate his declaration of an emergency on the border with Mexico. Trump's response was swift and unequivocal: "VETO!" he tweeted after a dozen Republicans joined ...
President Donald Trump in his 2020 budget on Monday called for overhauls of social programs that help poor and elderly Americans, while boosting military spending and funding a U.S.-Mexico border wall, in the opening gambits of his next funding fight with the U.S. Congress. The ...
Once an ally, Trump now tells 'Wacky Nut Job' Ann Coulter he's stopping 'invasion' at Mexico border
President Donald Trump said he's "stopping an invasion" of the U.S. in a pair of tweets directed at conservative commentator Ann Coulter, whose criticism reportedly helped crystallize his decision to forge ahead with a record long federal government shutdown in December. Addressing "Wacky Nut Job" ...
Trump asks military to house 5,000 child migrants amid mounting 'crisis' at Mexican border: Pentagon
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Department of Defense to prepare to house up to 5,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children amid what it calls a mounting "crisis" at the border, the Pentagon said Thursday. The Department of Health and Human Services, "requested DoD support ...
Presidents Day protests decry Trump's emergency declaration as power grab
Activists in Washington, Chicago and dozens of other U.S. cities protested on Monday's Presidents Day holiday against President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Calling Trump's declaration an abuse of power and usurpation of Congress, organizers ...
California tells Trump lawsuit over border wall emergency declaration is 'imminent'
California will "imminently" challenge President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to obtain funds for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said on Sunday. "Definitely and imminently," Becerra told ABC's "This Week" program when asked whether and when California would sue ...
Legal challenges to Trump's emergency declaration face uphill battle
Analysis Democratic lawmakers, states and others mulling legal challenges to U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency in order to obtain funds to build a border wall face an uphill and probably losing battle in a showdown that is likely to be decided ...
Two years into President Donald Trump's administration, a majority of Americans have lost confidence in the brash real estate magnate's performance on everything from the economy to foreign policy, a poll showed Monday. The ABC News/Washington Post poll was published after Trump suffered a major ...
U.S. Senate leaders on both sides rekindle talks on ending shutdown
U.S. Senate leaders from both parties met Thursday in a renewed bid to end a month-long shutdown, as the White House signaled its openness to a three-week government funding bill to allow negotiations over border security to proceed. After dueling Senate measures to end the ...
Democrats push technology as alternative to Trump wall in shutdown impasse
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives floated the idea on Wednesday of ending a partial U.S. government shutdown by giving President Donald Trump most or all of the money he seeks for security along the Mexican border but for items other than the ...
