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Hud cant pay her landlord until the government reopens. so now theyre stuck with relatives. for a milwaukee grandmother, it means shes gone from her desk at the federal bureau of land management to driving an uber so she can buy food and necessities for herself and her family. for an arkansas mother whose disability prevents her from working, it could mean homelessness. if the shutdown continues, the section 8 benefits she relies on to stay in affordable housing will be at risk. their stories ar...

For $5.7 billion for his border wall or slats or whatever were calling it these days. senate republicans plan to vote on a package to reopen the government this week that includes trumps proposal. but seven democratic votes are needed for it to pass. on the house side speaker nancy pelosi called the deal a non-starter. and today her office said pelosi hasnt spoken to anyone from the white house since trumps announcement. so there you have it. one month into the shutdown and were stuck at square ...

Shutdown, in the oval office. hes also got a problem, though, on his right. ann coulter tweeting today, "trump proposes amnesty. we voted for trump and got jeb." what do you make of the sort of vise that donald trump is in with pelosi not budging as robert costa reports and the far right not giving him any room to maneuver? >> nicolle, i think you described that well. the president is really boxed in here. as much as there are some people around the president kind of urging him to continue this ...

And if we are ever late, well give you a automatic twenty dollar credit. my name is antonio and im a technician at comcast. were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. washington back with you on day one of year three of donald trumps presidency. and month two of the government shutdown. were going to talk about where talks go now. spoiler. probably nowhere this week given congress is not even in town. were live with federal workers about to miss another payday friday after the lates...

>> one trump official who has sort of flown under the radar is ben carson, secretary at hud. i was meeting with a democratic aide on the hill who told me they plan on having ben carson testify at least once every couple months, if not more, in front of the oversight committee to look into the questionable things hes done. not just the $30,000 desks, but the 1,000 plus affordable housing contracts they let expire before the shutdown, and trying to figure out what hes been doing or not doing as se...

They taylor it to federal worke workers. well see long lines of people. desiree was one of the first people in line. youre a federal worker. your husband also works in issues related to hud. how is your family impacted? >> my husband and i just got married in november. trying to pay off the wedding and dealing with our kids and me being essential to go to work every day and put gas in the car is hard. our day care provider lives awe of us. . its hard to wake up and know that your whole foundatio...

Jouining me by phone is presidential candidate and former hud director, julian castro. i want to get your ideas on donald trumps proposals. >> its a non-starter. its the same tired approach hes been using. i dont think that the democrats in congress should be agree to any deal that allows this administration to keep holding hostage dreamers and tps recipients or any other immigrants because i have no confidence this president is negotiating good faith or he wouldnt hold them hostage a couple yea...

Senator schumer tonight is because of something unexpected that he was able to pull off late this afternoon in the u.s. senate. let me show you something. today we got a new court filing from the special counsels office from muellers prosecutors laying out for a federal judge in washington d.c. the evidence basis of the claims from the special counsel that president trumps campaign chairman paul manafort lied to them during the course of his cooperation with prosecutors after he plead guilty to ...

In washington, d.c. the evidentiary basis of the claims from the special counsel that president trumps campaign chairman paul manafort lied to them during the course of his supposed cooperation with prosecutors after he pled guilty to multiple felonies. this is that filing. which landed on my desk today. you can see the size of it. landed on my desk today with a sort of remarkable thud. turns out, though, happy days, it does not take very long to read because the first part of it is this part, s...

Both professionally, you know, the people who im supposed to serve and help, the american people. i am not able to do my job and there are many people waiting and relying on me and everybody that works at hud for their lives. you know, we help people, you know, get out and stay out of homelessness. we help people at hud with their fha loans. what if theres first home time buyers now that cant get their mortgage because their fha isnt going through because hud is closed? now i dont work in the fh...