Trump thinks building his racist border wall is more important than federal workers getting their paychecks to support their families.

A Republican senator who blocked President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination now says Congress should do whatever Trump wants.

Voters know Trump and Republicans are responsible for the shutdown — and that’s a problem for Republicans facing re-election.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to reopen the government for the American people, but Mitch McConnell and Trump are standing in the way.

Trump’s refusing to do his job and get the government running again unless there’s something in it for him.

Native American tribes are reeling from the shutdown, but Trump’s allies are encouraging him to keep the government closed, all for political gain.

Mitch McConnell is enabling Trump’s government shutdown — and is being called out by his fellow senators for doing so.

As failed Speaker Paul Ryan scurries into retirement, a new Democratic majority is here to set things right.

Trump’s shutdown has now affected some of the most popular museums in America and shuttered the National Zoo. Visitors are irate.

‘My son made a comment where he said Santa didn’t give us as much as he did last year, and that was heartbreaking,’ said one federal employee.

Trump shut down the government, and he’s rightly getting the blame for it.

Trump spent the holidays ranting on Twitter about the shutdown he caused.

Trump really wants to shut down the government, and while most Americans don’t want that, Mitch McConnell is happy to oblige.

‘This is a cowardly way to govern.’

Trump is obsessed with shutting down the government.

Republicans in Congress admit they have absolutely no clue what to do.

He wants to take the federal government hostage to get money his wall — and he’s proud of it.

Trump is again threatening to take the country hostage to get funding for his border wall, and he doesn’t care who gets hurt.

In an early morning tweet, Trump threatened to shut down the government less than 24 hours after he agreed to the terms of a spending bill to keep it open.

Hardliners in the House are teaming up with the White House to make sure any Senate immigration deal doesn’t make it to Trump’s desk.

Doing nothing “clearly worked.”

MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt didn’t let Cruz get away with trying to rewrite his own history: “Sir, that’s simply not the case.”

“The Republican majority now has 17 days to prevent the DREAMers from being deported.”

More and more, Republicans look to foreign operatives to push the party’s domestic messaging.

Paul Ryan is lying about his own party, and lying about President Obama.

No one is falling for this.

Republicans have been backed into a corner for blocking military pay, and they have no good answers for why they’re harming the troops through their political gamesmanship.

Donald Trump and the GOP have failed to protect military pay as President Obama did during the 2013 shutdown. But that’s not what Pence told our troops deployed overseas.  

Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney pushed the GOP line that Democrats are to blame for the government shutdown. But that effort isn’t fooling anyone, least of all Fox News host Chris Wallace.

Icons and landmarks of American history and pride are now off limits to visitors as the Republican-led shutdown of the federal government takes hold.