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President Trump says he's considering withdrawing the U.S. from NATO, following years of complaining about the alliance.
Trump did alleviate one pain point for the public last week by declaring that he would go around Congress to pay TSA agents, a move that reduced the snaking lines at airport-security checkpoints across the country. Wait times had stretched to hours as missed paychecks thinned the ranks of on-duty TSA agents, causing staffing shortages.
After lawmakers left Washington for a two-week spring break with the Department of Homeland Security shut down, the Hollywood tabloid began publishing photographs of them living it up around the country.
The debate comes just weeks before the special election to fill the unexpired CD 11 term of Mikie Sherrill after she was elected governor.
The former GOP representative wants to retake his House seat in South Carolina’s Charleston area after losing to a Trump-backed challenger in 2018.
As the partial government shutdown extended to the longest in U.S. history, the Senate settled on a last-ditch effort to fund most of DHS while leaving out money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol.
President Donald Trump said he is considering calling Congress back to Washington to work on approving funding for the Department of Homeland Security, according to the New York Post, raising pressure on lawmakers to end a fight that snarled air travel throughout the country.