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union lawsuit over federal employees working without pay seeks to

The complaint asks federal judge to block White House's most guidance for operations during the partial shutdown, like processing tax returns and refunding taxpayers, that Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday were aimed at diminishing the pain of the partial shutdown for nonfederal..

governing without congress

As one example, newly empowered House democrats are outraged at an Executive Order signed by President Trump in December that addresses the crisis of national forest management. ..

u.s. ambassador richard grenell is isolated in berlin

Sometimes he appears from Berlin, commenting on the political situation in Germany and Europe like a foreign correspondent, and sometimes he is in Washington, fawning over his president. . 'I saw him up close today,' he said after the chancellor's visit to the White House in late April. ..

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