President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed the Pentagon chief out the door two months earlier than planned.

The stock market’s persistent fall, growing chaos in the Trump administration, higher interest rates, a U.S.-China trade war and a global slowdown have combined to elevate the perils for the economy.

President Trump met with officials on Monday to discuss border security issues as a partial government shutdown entered Christmas.

The shutdown will disrupt government operations and leave hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed or forced to work without pay just days before Christmas.

This year, the press started fighting back.

Though the House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that includes this funding, the deal is considered dead on arrival in the Senate.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed the special counsel, continues to oversee the Russia investigation and says it will be handled appropriately no matter who is in charge.

Trump tried to build the case that congressional Democrats would bear responsibility if there's no deal over his demand for U.S.-Mexico border wall money.

Both Republican and Democratic members of Congress praised the retired Marine Corps general and expressed concern over the direction of Trump's military and foreign policy once Mattis is gone.

President Donald Trump's demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown.