With the federal government in a partial shutdown and Congress apparently nowhere near a deal to reopen it, President Trump has kept himself busy making sweeping foreign policy changes over the past week. He has announced plans to withdraw troops from both Syria and Afghanistan. Those decisions set off a wave of political upheaval both […]
President Trump has flip-flopped several times in the course of just a week on the shutdown he’s caused. First, Trump said he’d be “proud” to shut down the federal government if a spending deal doesn’t include $5 billion for a wall he said Mexico would pay for. Then on Friday, when a shutdown looked inevitable with […]
Democrats are railing against President Trump’s irresponsible behavior after the government partially shut down Saturday. “It was unnecessary and avoidable,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said, according to the Hartford Courant. “Any shutdown is unfair to the American people and there’s no excuse. I’m hopeful we’ll resolve it over the weekend.” But the shutdown will drag on […]
A tsunami struck Indonesia’s two most-populated islands without warning, killing at least 222 people and injuring over 800. There had been no warning when a 10-foot wave hit the coastline of west Java and Sumatra Saturday evening, Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency told CNN. Officials suspect the tsunami was triggered by an underwater landslide after the Anak […]
The government is set to remain partially shut down through at least Thursday, because President Trump demanded billions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund a border wall he promised Mexico would pay for. On Saturday, both the Senate and the House adjourned for the Christmas holiday, and the shutdown began just after midnight. Shortly […]
This week, President Donald Trump unilaterally decided to pull American troops out of Syria after declaring victory, then saw his Defense Secretary, James Mattis, quit in protest of Trump’s national security worldview. These abrupt developments caused no end of alarm, frustration, and turmoil in most American political quarters as well as in the capitals of American […]