What would it take for Democrats and Republicans to work together?

The president castigated both the Senate majority leader and Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House of Representatives, for not taking his advice to tie crucial debt ceiling legislation to a popular veterans bill that recently passed Congress.

The White House insisted the president and leaders in the House and Senate will meet after Labor Day. They had a solid majority in the first one and a slim margin in the other, Republicans dreamed about that rare trifecta in American politics – adding the presidency and controlling all three levers of national power.

As we have said so many times, you’ve never seen anything like this before.

Congress faces an September 30 deadline to raise the debt ceiling.

Ryan, speaking at a town hall meeting on tax reform at a Boeing plant in Washington state, also said Congress would pass legislation to raise the ceiling in time to ensure debt payment.

But with a budget battle looming, Trump said he would be willing to risk a politically damaging government shutdown in order to secure funding for the wall.

President Donald Trump, a Republican, is exactly what Republicans “are not”, former GOP Sen. As part of his latest rant, the president set his sights on the mainstream media and one of the highest ranking Republicans in the country.

Yet White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday claimed it was not a concession, after dodging reporters’ questions about the wall’s funding.

Republicans, however, have majority control of the Senate – Trump’s party holds 52 seats. “Republican will win S!”, Trump also tweeted on Sunday. Clapper, who questioned Trump’s fitness to be in office, said he hand-wrote almost identical notes to Trump and Hillary Clinton the night before the election, when he was still in his intelligence post. McCaskill is a first-term senator seeking re-election next year.

Other Republicans have meanwhile grown more assertive in their criticism of the president, following the furore triggered by his equivocal response to the violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month. He traveled to Phoenix for the raucous campaign-style rally in the evening, introduced to the crowd by Vice President Mike Pence.

Congressional leaders eager to improve the functioning of the executive branch, and the divisive conduct of its chief, could put hearings about the emoluments clause of the Constitution, and Trump’s apparent violations of it, on the public agenda.

Raising the debt limit simply allows the government to pay the bills on spending that Congress has already approved. On the 9th and the 10th Trump assailed McConnell via Twitter, angered by a speech in which McConnell said Trump had “excessive expectations” of Congress. Cut spending and begin to lower the debt floor.

This would be hard for Republican leaders to achieve, but not impossible. Yet another impasse in 2011 was part of the reason why Standard & Poor’s stripped the U.S. of its AAA credit rating. The president is not insane to attack the Congress. Fitch, another credit rating firm, is less sanguine and has warned that failing to raise the debt limit in a timely manner could jeopardize its own AAA assessment for the US.

Congressional leaders remain publicly unworried. “The liberals are going to struggle and fight and protest every step of the way, but we’re the ones in charge now and we intend to deliver every step of the way”.