"It would be outrageous for Democrats, who agree with the president….they agree that we need border security," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "They just are unwilling to let this president win."
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Sunday said that the end of the ongoing partial government shutdown is not close, blaming President Trump for his forecast.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Sunday called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to take up Democratic bills to re-open parts of the government as a partial shutdown stretches into its third week.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Sunday that she would support holding a Senate vote on bills passed in the House to re-open parts of the government unrelated to negotiations over funding for President Trump's wall along the southern border.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said President Trump has moved away from his desire for a concrete wall along the U.S.-Mexico border toward a plan for metal fencing instead, which he said indicates how the president is working to compromise with Democrats.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney in an interview broadcast Sunday downplayed the significance of pressure from President Trump's more conservative supporters to follow through on a pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said there will not be progress on negotiations to end the partial government shutdown "as long as the radical left is in charge."
New York Rep. Peter King (R) said his party should make concessions to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) if the president is serious about reopening the government.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Sunday that discussions about impeaching President Trump are a "distraction," and that Democrats should instead focus on their legislative agenda.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) on Sunday scoffed at the controversy surrounding Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-Mich.) profane vow to impeach President Trump, accusing Republicans critical of the freshman lawmaker's comments of hypocrisy.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Trump "is not in a position to talk about language" because "no one has done more to debase the political sphere than Donald Trump."
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that although President Trump uses coarse language at times, he is not to blame for "coarsening" public discourse.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committees, said Sunday that he is planning to hold hearings to better understand President Trump's national security strategies, saying that there has been a "lack of transparency and explanation" for Trump's decisions.
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro on Sunday pledged that he will not be a "single-issue" candidate if he runs for president, touting his support for a number of major reforms.
Discussions within the Trump Organization during the 2016 presidential campaign about a proposal to build a real estate development in Moscow are a key component of the events being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The Washington Post first reported on the business proposal, which ultimately fell through, back in August 2017, but more has since come to light as a result of the special counsel’s investigation.
Michael Cohen’s November guilty plea revealed that the talks lasted until June 2016 – six months longer than he had previously claimed -- at which point Donald Trump was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
The revelations have put Trump and his allies on defense and invigorated House Democrats hoping to probe the president’s past business dealings. Here is a more in-depth look at the Trump Moscow property proposal, and why it matters in the context of Mueller’s broader investigation.
