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President Donald Trump urged Senator Mitch McConnell and Republicans in the Senate on Friday to fight to pass funding for border security.

The House Freedom Caucus will lead a special order on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening, where its members will push for funding for President Donald Trump’s planned border wall.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Wednesday that he plans to introduce a short-term spending bill that would fund the government through February.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) charged in a tweet on Wednesday that House Republicans from California, Texas, and Florida secured more than $100 billion for disaster assistance for their states; however, they cannot find $5 billion to fund the border wall.

“We’ll see what happens, it’s too early to tell,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday at the White House. “We need border security.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said during a press conference on Tuesday that he believes the government will not shut down, suggesting that the White House has been “extremely flexible” on how to resolve the December 21 government funding deadline. 

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) has released its list of Worst Ethics Violators of 2018, which includes 2020 presidential hopefuls Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declared President Donald Trump was not going to get the U.S.-Mexico border wall “in any form.” Schumer said, “President Trump should understand there are not the votes for

The Senate advanced a resolution on Wednesday that called for the end of American assistance in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

The text of the latest version of the First Step Act, being circulated by proponents to law enforcement groups and obtained by Breitbart News, still allows a number of violent criminals early release under the program.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signaled on Monday that they distrust President Donald Trump ahead of a pivotal Tuesday meeting to discuss funding the government and potentially funding part of Trump’s border wall.

“Go for it Mitch!” Trump wrote on Twitter, describing the First Step Act bill as “extremely popular” and endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats.

President Donald Trump signed a stop-gap bill on Friday to postpone a fight over a possible partial government shutdown until right before Christmas.

The House GOP leadership is responsible for blocking a pro-American immigration reform package which was backed by President Donald Trump, a top House chairman said Tuesday.

The vast majority of Senate Republicans do not support the so-called FIRST STEP Act, a White House-backed criminal justice reform bill, Breitbart News has learned.

Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Tuesday that Republicans “need to deliver” on their commitment to President Donald Trump to secure $5 billion in border wall funding this December, cautioning that a late December deadline may make it harder for the president to secure more funding.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) predicted on Monday that Congress will avoid a government shutdown, even though President Donald Trump has threatened to shut it down if Congress does not fund his border wall.

Black conservatives spent Monday on Capitol Hill lobbying senators to pass criminal justice reform legislation.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) defeated former Clinton administration Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy on Tuesday in the Mississippi Senate runoff election.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) warned in an interview with Fox & Friends Tuesday that Republicans have just over a month to secure border wall funding before the Democrats take over the House in the new year.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is facing possible removal from the Senate Judiciary Committee as an enlarged Republican majority is set to rule over the Senate in January.

Chicago Mayor and former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday endorsed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) bid to regain her Speakership.

More than 100 conservative leaders have signed on to a letter delivered to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K) urging him to use the remaining days of the 115th Congress to confirm President Donald Trump’s more than 200 executive and judicial nominees.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to bring the criminal justice reform bill up for a vote. Graham said, “I’m urging Mitch McConnell, put this bill on the floor.

“This would be a very good time to do a shutdown,” Trump said.

Thursday, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) reacted to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocking a vote on a protection bill for FBI special counsel Robert Mueller. Coons questioned why McConnell would block the bill because President Donald Trump “has a long history of doing

Two years of non-stop campaigning, denouncing and doxing — and all the Resistance has to show for it is a House majority smaller than the one Republicans currently have and a net loss of three Senate seats?

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Daily Briefing,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that Republicans “need to stop the slide” in suburbs. McConnell said, “Well, we definitely need to stop the slide. We used to do

Avenatti said the midterm results confirmed his views that it will take a fighter to beat President Trump in 2020.

In a press conference Wednesday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) praised President Donald Trump for helping Republicans keep the Senate.

After it was announced that Democrats would take back control of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi spoke out to congratulate her colleagues and commend the DNC chair.

The president called Democrat Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi, according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.

As Democrats across the country readied there 11th-hour midterm election push, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was partying the night away with New York City’s elite.

Two Trump-appointed minority judges in their forties—Amul Thapar and James Ho—are joining Trump Supreme Court justices in questioning two major legal doctrines that give vast powers to federal agencies, possibly heralding that President Donald Trump could build a judicial majority that scales back the administrative state.   

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto refuses to meet President Donald Trump during his Tuesday visit to the city following a synagogue shooting over the weekend that left 11 dead and several injured.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik criticized CNN’s coverage of the mail bombs sent to Democrat Party figures this week, in an interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.