Tag: Nancy Pelosi

• Wednesday, February 6th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Trump announces meeting with Kim, calls for unity and blasts “ridiculous partisan investigations”

  

  United States President Donald Trump has announced in his State of the Union speech that he will hold a second nuclear summit with North Korea's leader this month. In an address to the nation with the theme “Choosing Greatness”, he vowed once again to build a border wall.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 08:23 UTC

  Trump yields and agrees to lift 35-day government shutdown...until 15 February

  

  President Donald Trump agreed under mounting pressure on Friday to end a 35-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without getting the US$5.7 billion he had demanded from Congress for a border wall, handing a political victory to Democrats.

• Friday, January 18th 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Border wall tit-for-tat: Trump halts Pelosi's trip to Afghanistan by denying military aircraft

  

  President Donald Trump has postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming trip to Brussels and Afghanistan, asking her to stay to negotiate an end to the partial US government shutdown.

• Thursday, January 17th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Shutdown: Pelosi asks Trump to postpone State of the Union speech to Congress or deliver it by writing

  

  Democrats have asked President Donald Trump to postpone a speech to Congress, arguing security cannot be guaranteed due to the government shutdown. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to Mr Trump that he should deliver the speech in writing instead unless federal agencies reopen.

• 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.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Government shutdown persists as Trump and Democrats clash over US/Mexican border wall funding

  

  United States president Donald Trump has demanded funding for his long-promised US-Mexico border wall to halt “a growing humanitarian and security crisis”. But in his first TV address to the nation from the Oval Office, Mr Trump did not declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build the barrier.

• Thursday, February 1st 2018 - 21:53 UTC

  Trump presses: Bipartisan efforts stalled in Bargain on Immigration

  

  After the night of Trump’s State of Union address, bipartisan clashes continue since President Donald Trump turned on the pressure on Democrats on Thursday to come to an agreement on protection for the undocumented immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

• Saturday, June 13th 2015 - 07:34 UTC

  Democrats strike stunning blow to President Obama's free-trade agenda

  

  The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday dealt a stunning blow to President Barack Obama’s free-trade agenda. A large number of Democrats in the House defied their fellow Democratic president to defeat a critical part of a legislative package, Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), which would have provided aid to US workers who might lose their jobs if a major Asia-Pacific trade agreement is forged.