The Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Know How Many Families It Separated at the Border
Six-year-old Allison and her mother, Cindy Madrid, at a Houston, Texas, press conference in July 2018. They were separated for one month under the Trump administration’s now-abandoned family separation policy. Marie D. De Jes’s/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new government report released Thursday found that thousands more children were…
Steve King Was Saying Insanely Racist Things Long Before Republicans Decided Enough Was Enough
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Iowa Rep. Steve King’s openly racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric has finally caught up with him. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to condemn the congressman, with a final vote of 424 to 1. The vote came just a…
The GoFundMe Campaign to Build Trump’s Wall Crashes and Burns
Donald Trump inspects border wall prototypes last year in San Diego, California.Mandel Ngan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “We The People Will Build the Wall,” the effort to crowdfund President Donald Trump’s border wall, has run into a barrier. Brian Kolfage, an Iraq War veteran with a history of peddling…
Trump’s Border Wall Land Grab Makes No Sense for Conservatives Who Hate Eminent Domain
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 4, speaking from the Rose Garden, President Donald Trump threatened to declare a state of emergency so he could use a “military version of eminent domain” to start seizing private land along the southern border to build a wall he…
Trump Once Told Students to Never Let a Wall Get in Their Way
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long before President Donald Trump threatened to “maybe, definitely” declare a national emergency over his $5 billion demands for funds to build a border wall, the former real estate magnate once offered a very different—if not inspirational—message about concrete walls. “I’ll tell you, to me,…
Schumer: President Stormed Out of Shutdown Talks in a “Temper Tantrum”
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump walked out of the latest round of negotiations to end the partial government shutdown after Democratic leaders continued to refuse his demands for funds to build a border wall, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday. Schumer, who along with…