Republicans are refusing to authorize back pay for hundreds of thousands of federal contractors, many of them in the lowest paid jobs.

Trump has yet to master the art of dealing with Democrats in power.

Sen. Chuck Grassley is using all the tools on heaven and earth to prevent Trump from forcing another disastrous government shutdown.

Trump’s shutdown stunt deprived people of paychecks for 5 weeks, and the effects were devastating.

While he was forcing federal workers to visit food pantries, Trump bought himself a $50,000 golf simulator and installed it in the White House.

The congressional funding compromise hammered out by Congress rejects Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion for a wall.

The Association of Flight Attendants union warns that a second Trump shutdown would threaten air travel safety.

Some federal workers still haven’t gotten back pay from the 35-day Trump shutdown — and Trump is threatening another one if he doesn’t get what he wants.

Unlike Trump, the White House National Drug Control Strategy doesn’t say that a border wall will help tackle issues like the opioid epidemic.

The GOP loves shutdowns, and they just proved it with their vote.

Republicans will bend over backward to give billionaires a tax break, but they won’t do a thing to help half a million workers get back pay.

After the disastrous 35-day Trump shutdown, even Republicans want to stop Trump from inflicting more harm upon the country.

And $3 billion can’t ever be recovered — all to withhold federal workers’ pay and endanger lives for a useless wall.

Trump’s acting chief of staff says Trump is prepared to shut down the government again in mid-February.

Women hate Trump more than ever, according to new polls.

GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defended Trump’s tantrums and table-slapping over the shutdown as ‘reasonable.’

Trump gave in to what Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have demanded all along: ending the government shutdown before even beginning negotiations on border wall funding.

Laguardia Airport traffic was halted because of the Trump shutdown, and the chaos spread quickly to other airports.

As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are turning on one another — and Mitch McConnell is getting an earful.

Trump can’t even convince right-wing extremists to stick with him anymore.

Republicans showed yet again that they care more about their allegiance to Trump than the good of the American people.

The massive disruption hurting the global economy is merely a ‘glitch’ says a wealthy Trump insider.

Even Trump’s own John Kelly thinks the shutdown needs to end.

Unions representing 131,000 airline workers send a stark warning about airline safety as the Trump shutdown shows no signs of ending.

Trump’s shutdown is forcing federal workers to go to food banks — but Trump’s commerce secretary says let them eat cake.

The self-described world’s greatest dealmaker just got played.

Field agents don’t have the funding they need to investigate some of the worst crimes.

Sen. Joni Ernst’s support of the Trump shutdown is not going over well with her constituents.

Yes, zero.

In refusing to offer a real compromise to end the shutdown, Trump once again prioritizes his anti-immigrant agenda over the well-being of the country.