Federal Government Shutdown Is Hours Away
The federal government will partially shut down Friday at midnight if the House and Senate don't pass a spending bill.
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The federal government will partially shut down Friday at midnight if the House and Senate don't pass a spending bill.
"Think about it. It the government totally shut down, the military would get laid off, the prisons would open up, Grandma wouldn't get her Social Security check," said Hamline University Professor David Schultz.
Many of the Minnesota residents who came here from Southeast Asia could be impacted by discussions going on right now in the federal government.
Trump already has lashed out at GOP leaders in Congress over the lack of wall funding in a short-term spending bill that passed the Senate on Wednesday.
And the president's complaining about higher interest rates isn't the only problem the central bank faces.
The house is located on the northeastern stretch of Lake of the Isles near downtown Minneapolis.
Garrett was in the Twin Cities Monday to speak to the Economic Club of Minnesota.
The visit comes amid speculation about whether he may join President Donald Trump's administration.
The word follows "toxic," picked by Oxford Dictionaries, and "misinformation," plucked by Dictonary.com .
President Trump is "absolutely" willing to shut down the government if Congress doesn't authorize funding for a border wall and will do "whatever is necessary" to get the wall built, according to Stephen Miller, a White House senior adviser.
Investigations now entangle Donald Trump's White House, campaign, transition, inauguration, charity and business. For Trump, the political, the personal and the deeply personal are all under examination.
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani Sunday said the president would be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller "over my dead body," dismissing Mueller's team as "a joke" in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
Minnesota Gov.-elect Tim Walz declined an invitation to join a bipartisan group of new governors in a meeting with President Donald Trump, drawing some criticism from Republicans.
The bill reauthorizes agriculture and conservation programs, funds trade programs, expands support for struggling dairy farmers and legalizes the cultivation of industrial hemp.
In three court filings Friday, prosecutors for the first time connected President Trump to a crime involving hush money payments to a porn actress. They revealed new details about outreach from Russia early in Mr. Trump's presidential campaign. They detailed how they say two central figures, lawyer Michael Cohen and onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort, were continually tripped up by lies.
If you have a 401K or an investment in the stock market, Thursday was a roller coaster ride. Stocks were down more than 500 points, but rallied later in the afternoon The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down nearly 80 points. This comes after the Dow plunged more than 700 points on Tuesday. Analysts say this week's losses could have been even worse, but were mitigated by markets being closed Wednesday in honor of President George H.W. Bush's funeral.
Only a fraction of a $12 billion federal bailout program to help farmers hurt by trade tariffs has made it to Minnesota. The United States Department of Agriculture reports it has disbursed $1.4 billion in emergency farm aid so far through November 26--- out of the total $12 billion it promised.
When WCCO-TV asked Klobuchar just a week and a half ago, she wouldn't confirm or deny anything.
The special counsel's office is calling Michael Flynn's cooperation "substantial" and is recommending no prison time for the former Trump administration national security adviser.
WCCO-TV's Pat Kessler examined a new report on climate change in Wednesday night's edition of "Reality Check" -- and it is a topic that has a lot of people talking. President Donald Trump says he doesn't believe the report, but can 300 scientists and 13 federal agencies all be wrong? This topic is really striking a chord with just about everyone; one of the rare topics that affects literally everyone in Minnesota.
President Trump was dismissive of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, after the news that Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress.
The National Climate Assessment predicts devastating consequences if nothing is done about climate change. Minnesota's headline: "Much Hotter Summers, Much Warmer Winters." The assessment predicts a future Minnesota that doesn't look familiar.
Prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office said Monday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort violated his plea agreement with the government by lying to federal investigators "on a variety of subject matters."
A judge has rejected a bid by former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos (pah-puh-DAHP'-uh-luhs) to delay his two-week prison term and says Papadopoulos must surrender Monday as scheduled.
President Trump made a Thanksgiving Day threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico for an undisclosed period of time if his administration determines that its southern ally has lost "control" on its side.
