The state of Washington tried to convince a federal judge Thursday that the Trump administration’s plan to divert Pentagon funds for border wall construction is illegal and should be immediately stopped.
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The Department of Homeland Security has requested the Pentagon fund hundreds of miles of new and renovated barriers along the southern border this year to stop the flow of drugs.
Read moreThree miles of border wall will soon go up on private land on the banks of the Rio Grande after a federal judge on Thursday lifted an injunction, allowing a construction firm to move forward with the project.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Wednesday lifted a lower court’s order that blocked the Trump administration from using $3.6 billion in military construction money for a wall on the Mexican border.
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a $1.4 trillion spending package, putting Congress on track to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year ahead of an end-of-week deadline.
Read moreThe Defense Department’s internal watchdog is investigating a $400 million border wall contract awarded to a firm that used multiple appearances on Fox News to push for the job, and whom President Trump touted to the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security.
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The Department of Defense cannot use military construction funds to build a wall along the southern border wall as part of a declared national immigration emergency, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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A federal judge on Tuesday issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration’s plan to use $3.6 billion in military construction money to build the president’s long-promised border wall.
Read moreA federal judge granted the United States an injunction against We Build The Wall and three construction companies, after they blew off a previous injunction prohibiting them from privately building a wall on the Mexican border.
Read moreIn an auspicious hearing for a butterfly sanctuary standing in the way of the planned wall on the southern border, the D.C. Circuit pressed the government Thursday on evidence that Border Patrol agents had cut locks on the property.
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The director of a 100-acre butterfly refuge on the Rio Grande asked the Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday to shut down a conservative group’s border wall construction project on private land in South Texas, a day after a state judge ordered the project be immediately stopped.
Read moreIn a federal courtroom in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Trump’s Department of Justice clashed with lawyers for the Sierra Club, the state of California and a slew of other states looking to block the Pentagon from diverting $3.6 billion from the military to build a southern border wall.
Read moreFighting to overturn a stayed injunction barring the use of $2.5 billion from military accounts for a border wall, a Trump administration lawyer told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that Congress never expressly forbade using military funds for that purpose.
Read moreThe Senate passed a long-overdue, $209 billion bundle of bipartisan spending bills Thursday, but a bitter fight over funding demanded by President Donald Trump for border fencing continues to imperil broader Capitol Hill efforts to advance $1.4 trillion worth of annual Cabinet agency budgets.
Read moreA bitter fight over funding for border fencing is imperiling Capitol Hill efforts to forge progress on more than $1.4 trillion worth of overdue spending bills, one of the few areas in which divided government in Washington has been able to deliver results in the Trump era.
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Donald Trump has made building a barrier to stop immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border a central plank of his presidency, and on Wednesday he came up with a puzzling new twist to the initiative: a wall in Colorado.
Read moreThe Senate came up short Thursday in a vote to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution that initially passed with Republican support to end an emergency declaration to fund the border wall.
Read moreA federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s use of a national emergency declaration to speed up construction of his long-promised border wall is unlawful.
Read moreA federal court in Washington D.C. ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers did not withhold any non-exempt records from the Center for Biological Diversity, which requested documents that were given to President Donald Trump’s transition team and relate to his campaign promise to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read moreThe House of Representatives on Friday again voted to terminate the national emergency President Donald Trump declared in February to fund his long-promised border wall.
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