Tag: government shutdown
Democrats push ahead with short-term bill to avoid shutdown
Democrats controlling the House are steering clear of controversy in a short-term, government-wide spending measure that's needed to prevent a government shutdown...
Bradley Byrne: Working for the people
Over the last several weeks, we saw a prime example of how our government is broken. A portion of the federal government shut down,...
Ending showdown with Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump postpones State of Union
President Donald Trump said he is postponing his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends, yielding after a weeklong showdown...
Doug Jones says federal workers shouldn’t “be held hostage just over...
Sen. Doug Jones returned to Alabama last weekend, holding a townhall in Huntsville to discuss the government shutdown.
The Democrat senator held the event at the University...
Shutdown goes on as Donald Trump offer doesn’t budge Democrats
Thirty-one days into the partial government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans appeared no closer to ending the impasse than when it began, with President Donald...
Donald Trump says solution to shutdown impasse ‘so simple’
With the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat,...
Congress to face same question: When will shutdown end?
Congress returns to Washington for its first full week of legislative business since control of the House reverted to Democrats, but lawmakers...
Bradley Byrne: Get the show on the road
It
is time for the Democrat leaders in Washington to stop posturing when
it comes to border security and end the government...
Shutdown squeezing the Alabama city of Huntsville — built on federal...
Once known for its cotton trade and watercress farms, Huntsville, Alabama, is now the ultimate government town: About 70 federal agencies are...
Q&A: How the government shutdown might end
Somehow, some day, the nasty deadlock between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats that's shuttered federal agencies for a record-tying 21 days...