Trump Just Threw Congress' Deal to Avoid a Shutdown Into Total Chaos

Newsletter Top Stories Trump Just Threw Congress' Deal to Avoid a Shutdown Into Total Chaos [Splinter]( December 20, 2018 [Trump Just Threw Congress' Deal to Avoid a Shutdown Into Total Chaos]( [After Democrats and Republicans announced they had come to an agreement on a last-minute continuing resolution to fund the federal government through February 8, it appeared as if they’d headed off—or at least delayed—the government shutdown that everyone had been so freaked out about just a few days earlier. Whew, crisis averted!]( [LABOR]( [The War Against Amazon Is Here]( [Almost immediately after Amazon announced on November 13 that it would build a new corporate campus in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City, critics of the company—and of the multibillion dollar package that helped woo Jeff Bezos to the neighborhood—loudly began making themselves themselves heard.]( [MEDIA]( [Trump's Syria Decision Is Tearing the Fox & Friends Crew Apart]( [You know things are bad when not even Fox & Friends can agree on President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria.]( [CONGRESS]( [Docs: VA Congressman Leading a One Man War On a Bill That Could Save Thousands of Native Women]( [Splinter has obtained Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s version of Savanna’s Act, the bill meant to address the mind-numbing rates of violence against Native women, after he reportedly stalled that legislation. It is a shell of what should have been an easily passed and monumental piece of legislation, to say the...]( [ELECTIONS]( [God Help Us All]( [No.]( [Merry Christmas to the Extremists]( [It’s funny, the disconnect between the things that we say we value, and the people that we treat as valuable.]( [ELECTIONS]( [The Trump Campaign and the NRA Got Caught Being Shady (Again)]( [It’s hardly a shock to learn that the National Rifle Association is at this point wholly in the bag for President Donald Trump. But even by the amoral standards of an organization that exists to sell instruments of death and a crooked, increasingly unhinged, xenophobic political figure, the degree to...]( [YOU MAY ALSO LIKE]( [GIZMODO]( [The Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Nightmare Came True]( [An Amazon user in Germany recently requested data about his personal activities and inadvertently gained access to 1,700 audio recordings of someone he didn’t know.]( [JEZEBEL]( [When A Woman Dies From Suffering Over 40 Injuries, It's Not the Result of 'Rough Sex'Â]( [After millionaire John Broadhurst was accused of killing 26-year-old Natalie Connolly in 2016, he claimed her death was the result of consensual, rough sex. She had died from the trauma of over 40 injuries, as well as alcohol intoxication, and was left at the foot of the staircase where she...]( [JEZEBEL]( [Scientology Attorney Demands Jezebel Remove Our Story on Shelly Miscavige's Alleged DisappearanceÂ]( [A lawyer representing Shelly Miscavige, the wife of David Miscavige, Scientology’s leader, has demanded that Jezebel remove a story we ran yesterday on Shelly’s alleged disappearance. The attorney, Jeffrey K. Riffer, writes “Mrs. Miscavige is not missing” and that she is “appalled” by claims that she has disappeared. He adds...]( [JALOPNIK]( [It Was Japan’s Most Daring Car. Then the Economy Imploded]( [“I was driving it with the windows down,” then-product planner and engineer Bob Hall told me over the phone, “and you’d have sworn there was a Ferrari two cars behind you. With the windows up... you couldn’t hear a fucking thing.”]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Splinter]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( © 2018 Gizmodo Media 114 5th Avenue, Floor 2 New York, NY, 10011