Tag: Chuck Schumer

• Monday, January 8th 2024 - 11:29 UTC

  US Congress reaches deal to avert gov't shutdown

  

  Lawmakers from both major parties have reached a deal to avoid a US government shutdown in 2024, Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Sunday in Washington DC.

• Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  Returning US “war powers” from the White House to Congress stalled in Senate

  

  Republican Senators are delaying an upper House committee's vote on the repeal of the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, (AUMF), the so-called wide-ranging war powers that allowed the war in Iraq, and other military actions.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2020 - 09:38 UTC

  Trump gives go-ahead to presidential transition, but continues with legal challenges

  

  President Donald Trump on Monday said he had given Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration, the go-ahead to proceed with a transition for President-elect Joe Biden’s administration despite plans to continue with legal challenges.

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Trump calls Nancy Pelosi a “third rate politician”; President experienced a “meltdown”

  

  Top congressional Democrats walked out of a fractious White House meeting on Syria policy on Wednesday when US President Donald Trump attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a “third-rate politician.”

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Trump walks out of meeting with Democrats failing to lift the government shutdown

  

  President Donald Trump has walked out of a meeting with Democratic leaders as negotiations broke down on the 19th day of a US government shutdown. The Republican president ended talks after Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer stuck by their refusal to fund his planned US-Mexico border wall.

• Monday, December 19th 2016 - 09:31 UTC

  Russian cyber-attacks: top US Senators from both parties call for a Select Committee

  

  Pressure mounted on Sunday for a broader congressional investigation of Russian cyber-attacks aimed at influencing the United States election, even as President-elect Donald J Trump team says there was no conclusive evidence of foreign interference.