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President Donald Trump signed a stop-gap bill on Friday to postpone a fight over a possible partial government shutdown until right before Christmas.

“This would be a very good time to do a shutdown,” Trump said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seems to think the 1990s never ended. For the second time this year, he has called on the Democrats’ playbook from the Clinton era. And for the second time, he has failed, spectacularly.

President Donald Trump said he would not force a government shutdown over wall funding and border security before the midterm elections, suggesting that he made a deal with House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

President Donald Trump threatened a government shutdown if Congress failed to fund his border security and immigration reform priorities, but the White House stressed that the fight could be postponed until after the mid-term elections.

President Donald Trump praised talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, saying “Rush Limbaugh is a great guy who truly gets it!” in a simple Twitter message.

President Donald Trump again signaled his support for the wall Monday, after threatening to shut down the government if Congress failed to deliver construction funding.

The U.S. Senate voted to fund the government through March 23 in the early hours of Friday morning, potentially setting up an end to the new shutdown only hours after it began at midnight.

The two-year budget plan announced Wednesday by top Senate leaders has caused an apparent split between Sen. Minority Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says the Democrats are less likely to attempt to shut down the federal government this month in order to demand amnesty for illegal aliens “given how badly they misjudged” the lack of support for such an effort last month.

Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer is continuing to push his impeachment agenda as the Democratic Party faces new divisions in the wake of its embarrassing capitulation to President Donald Trump in the recent shutdown fight.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) believes the recent three-day government shutdown and the deal to end it on Monday gave Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and other illegal immigrant Dreamers “a better chance” of getting a pathway to citizenship.

“I am pleased that Democrats in Congress have come to their senses and are now willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders, and insurance for vulnerable children,” Trump said in a statement released by the White House.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a rising potential presidential contender in 2020, voted against a bill to re-open the federal government on Monday, arguing that the budget should have done more to protect illegal aliens.

The Pentagon said Sunday that troops serving overseas can now watch two channels during the shutdown — a news channel and a sports channel.

On this week’s edition of Breitbart News Sunday, broadcast live on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 from 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Eastern, Breitbart News’ Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle and Deputy Political Editor Amanda House will discuss the latest government shutdown news and Congress’s battle over the future of American immigration policy.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) on Saturday offered to go the U.S.-Mexico border with bricks and mortar to help build the border wall in exchange for a permanent Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) fix. “I’ll take a bucket, take bricks, and start building it myself,” Gutierrez reportedly said. “We will dirty our hands in order for the Dreamers to have a clean future in America.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), speaking from the House floor Saturday morning, called the government shutdown a “shakedown strategy” that Senate Democrats were talked into by their base.

“This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present,” Trump wrote on Twitter with the hashtag #DemocratShutdown.

Like the rest of the federal government, the two departments that oversee most of the country’s federal law enforcement agencies are preparing for a “shutdown” due to kick in midnight Friday.

The last time the government shut down, stocks actually rose 3.1 percent. That’s because there’s likely to be no big effect on the economy.

Senate Democrats are uncertain about triggering a government shutdown over amnesty for DACA recipients, but the White House is preparing the federal government for the possibility.

Washington, DC, is on edge this Friday as Senate Democrats barrel the United States of America toward a government shutdown at midnight. Breitbart News will bring live updates here as the country heads over the shutdown cliff.

“The Democrats want to see a shutdown to get off this subject because this subject is not working for them,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. “The tax cuts and tax reform has not been working well for the Democrats.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday blasted Democrats for refusing to pass a 2018 government spending bill that does not include a DACA fix.

Pro-amnesty GOP Senators are helping the Democrats block a government budget until President Donald Trump agrees to break his campaign promise and his presidency by amnestying millions of wage-lowing illegal immigrants.

Troops will not receive a paycheck this Friday if Congress fails to pass a budget or another short-term spending measure by then, according to the Pentagon.

Democratic leaders are holding the 2018 federal budget hostage to their demand for a cheap-labor amnesty — but are also obscuring their very unpopular demand behind a barrage of subsidiary demands, according to GOP politicians.

President Donald Trump challenged Democrats over rumors of a government shutdown, suggesting that they might fail to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government.

Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer will meet President Donald Trump today to talk about a 2018 budget deal, and he will have to repeat or revoke the Democrats’ unpopular threats to block the 2018 budget if Republicans reject his unpopular amnesty for 3 million ‘dreamers.’

A Morning Consult/Politico poll release Wednesday showed a majority of Republican voters would support a federal government shutdown if it could deliver the signature Trump promise of a southern border wall.

President Donald Trump repeated his promise to make Mexico pay for his long promised wall on the Southern border, vowing that they would pay “one way or another.”

Republicans, fearful of a shutdown, are already trying to walk back his threat. They do not realize Trump has just taught them how to face down the media and the Democrats, and to fight for their core policy priorities and the wishes of their own voters — and win.

A banner flown over the New Jersey shore on Monday told unpopular Gov. Chris Christie to “get the hell off” the beach—a day after Christie was photographed sunning himself on a beach, despite having closed all state beaches and parks with a government shutdown.

There are only three days left until President Barack Obama gives up the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the international community, ending online freedom of expression and enterprise as we know it.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is coming under withering criticism from conservatives for passing a massive new budget that funds the government through next September–and avoids a government “shutdown.”