There’s only one area where bipartisanship still reigns in Washington: avoidance. Republican and Democrat leaders this week held hands and used the funeral events for President George H. W. Bush as an excuse to move their funding deadline—which previously expired on December 7—two weeks forward, to December 21, four days before Christmas. In
If 2018 has made anything clear—apart from the fact that our politics are a dumpster fire—it’s that we have a crisis at the southern border. Whatever one thinks about Trump, he didn’t create it. He is, however, the only one who has been trying to fix it, and next week represents the last
Last week in the House of Representatives, America’s role in the ongoing war in Yemen received the most attention it ever has in the three years it’s been waged. The attention did not come in the way you might think—like an open debate on the merits, for example—but rather, in the form of
The Weekly Standard published a gusher last week on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Fred Barnes, the magazine’s executive editor, fell all over himself praising McConnell’s “pragmatism and political skill . . . [which] allows little to get in the way of winning.” Barnes went on to brag about the majority leader’s
Despite Democratic gains in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Election Day outcomes were far from the big blue wave that liberals promised Though Democrats managed to flip the House, the loss of at least 30 Republican seats is in line with historical averages. Generally speaking, the president’s party loses around 30 seats
In counties and states thousands of miles from the border, illegal immigration is framing debates, campaign ads, and grassroots activism. In states as far west as Idaho and as far north as Minnesota, squeamish members of Congress are finally being forced to confront an issue they’ve managed to spend years avoiding. In Idaho
A thousand miles or so from the southern U.S. border, Central American migrants are on the march. What began with around 5,000 people has swelled to as many as 14,000—and possibly more. They have traveled on foot approximately 500 miles so far, walking through immigration checkpoints in Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico with minimal
Barely one week after redoubling his commitment to build President Trump’s southern border wall in the upcoming lame-duck session, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has given in. McConnell on October 10 told the Associated Press he was “committed to helping the president get wall funding.” The next day, he told the Washington
After two solid years of fighting it, congressional Republicans may now be prepared to fund President Trump’s border wall after all. On Monday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) promised “a big fight” over Trump’s wall when the House returns to work in December, telling reporters, “we have a commitment to go
Building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was Donald Trump’s signature campaign promise. He’s running out of chances to keep it. Trump has been president for nearly two years, but we are still waiting to see construction begin on even part of the roughly 1,000 miles of border wall he pledged to voters.
