Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that President Trump will secure the southern border "with or without Congress," and did not explicitly rule out the possibility of another government shutdown in the coming weeks.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that all federal employees should receive backpay they missed during the 35-day government shutdown by the end of the week.
"I’m reasonably optimistic," Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said. "I think everybody’s stepped out into the new world we’re in — Republican Senate, Democratic House, new Speaker, Republican president. The initial touching of the gloves was not producing the kind of result that we need to produce here.
"I think what will happen is that the efforts to continue to build physical barriers, which have gone on in the last two administrations, will continue, but not to the degree the president has requested," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on "Face the Nation" on CBS.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Sunday that he would oppose an effort by President Trump to declare a national emergency to construct a wall along the southern border, calling the prospect a "terrible idea."
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Sunday, following a temporary reprieve from the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, that they aren't "good leverage" in policy negotiations.
“The president is the only one who has been reasonable in these negotiations. I’ve been in every single meeting, so I watched it. ... [Democrats] didn’t want to negotiate. It was the president who offered four different plans," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Roger Stone, the longtime confidant of President Trump who was arrested as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, said Sunday that the indictment against him is "thin as piss on a rock" and pledged to "fight for my life."
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that Roger Stone will "need a much better defense" against charges he faces in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe after he called the indictment "thin as piss on a rock."
Chris Christie, the former Republican New Jersey governor who served on President Trump's transition team, said Sunday that the indictment of Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant, is "pretty damning."
"I will affirm that what is in the indictment about me is accurate. And I will affirm that, if asked to in court," Jerome Corsi, a conservative political commentator, said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro (D) on Sunday urged Starbucks founder Howard Schultz to reconsider running as an independent candidate for president in 2020.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) said Sunday that it is "certainly not appropriate right now" to bring articles of impeachment against President Trump.
Former Sen. Alfonse D’Amato (R-N.Y.) called on President Trump to push back on the far-right flank of his base that urged him to recently shut down the government to fund a border wall.
The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Sunday credited President Trump with encouraging other countries to spend more on defense, and downplayed critics' concerns that the president's rhetoric and actions have threatened to undermine the alliance.
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