Josh Dawsey

A view of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. The presidential primary is jolting to life without a traditional mainstay: the donor class. More specifically, their contribution checks. With as many as two dozen Democrats potentially running for the White House and no immediate front-runner, the money race in the early days of the primary is largely frozen, according to fundraisers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House to select federal scientists to reassess government climate findings, sources say

February 24, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

The White House plans to create an ad hoc group of select federal scientists to reassess the government抖阴ap analysis of climate science and counter its conclusions that the continued burning...

President Donald Trump holds up a photo of a “typical standard wall design” as he speaks during a roundtable discussion on border security with administration officials at the White House on Friday.

Inside Trump鈥檚 defiance on the longest shutdown ever

January 12, 2019 at 4:02 p.m.

WASHINGTON - When President Donald Trump made a rare journey to the U.S. Capitol last week, he was expected to strategize about how to end the government shutdown he instigated....

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Trump threatens to keep government shut down for “months or even years”

January 4, 2019 at 4:46 p.m.

President Donald Trump told congressional leaders Friday that he would keep the federal government closed for "months or even years" amid a dispute over border wall funding.

Chief of Staff to Vice President Pence Nick Ayers listens as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch waits for the arrival of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush at the U.S Capitol Rotunda on Dec. 3, 2018 in Washington, DC.

Nick Ayers, Trump’s once-likely replacement for chief of staff Kelly, won’t take the job

December 9, 2018 at 5:34 p.m.

President Donald Trump's top pick to be his next chief of staff, Nick Ayers, will not take the job and instead leave the White House at the end of the...

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Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting

November 27, 2018 at 9:12 p.m.

President Donald Trump placed responsibility for recent stock market declines and this week's announcement of General Motors plant closures and layoffs on the Federal Reserve during an interview Tuesday, shirking...

Ivanka Trump used personal email account to send emails about government business

November 19, 2018 at 7:06 p.m.

聽Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules,...

Record number of families crossing U.S. border, as Trump threatens new crackdown

October 18, 2018 at 12:20 a.m.

The number of migrant parents entering the United States with children has surged to record levels in the three months since President Donald Trump ended family separations at the border,...

Two young mothers from Honduras and their children are detained by Border Patrol after rafting across the Rio Grande in Granjeno, Texas, in June. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Jahi Chikwendiu

Officials consider asking parents to make dire border choice: detention or separation?

October 13, 2018 at 1:07 a.m.

The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into...

Trump defiant as crisis grows over family separation at the border

June 19, 2018 at 8:27 a.m.

The Trump administration's move to separate immigrant families at the border and detain children apart from their parents spiraled into a humanitarian and political crisis Monday as the White House...

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Trump complains about traveling to Canada ahead of Singapore summit with Kim

June 7, 2018 at 4:40 p.m.

President Donald Trump is planning to fly to Canada on Friday. He is not exactly happy about it.

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