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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Trump Is Headed for Another Failure with a Deplorable Immigration Bill
By Rob GarverBack when his presidential candidacy was still a longshot, Donald Trump had a go-to method for firing up his supporters if he sensed that a campaign rally was losing its momentum. He described it in...
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Trump Will Allow Young Immigrants to Stay: Here’s a Rundown on DACA
By Rob GarverA release from the Trump administration on Thursday night surprised many of the president’s detractors when it made suggested that the administration plans to leave President Obama’s Deferred Action...
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How Much Energy Would Trump's Solar Border Wall Actually Produce?
By Leanna Garfield, Business InsiderDuring a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US-Mexico border wall. As Axios reported , he pitched covering the wall...
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Here’s a Basic Problem With Trump’s Plan to Deport Undocumented Immigrants
By Rob GarverAccording to the Government Accountability Office, if the Trump administration really plans on maintaining its accelerated pace of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants, something is...
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Here's How Broken Washington Is — Even Without Trump
By David DayenA problem caused by a government-granted monopoly looks like it’ll actually get solved. Or it did, until conservatives found the name “Elizabeth Warren” atop the bill.
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Bad News for Trump’s Wall: Watchdog Finds Plenty of Ways Around It
By Eric PianinA new report by the Government Accountability Office suggests there are plenty of ways for illegal immigrants, illicit drug smugglers and human traffickers to breach almost any barrier the...
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These Big, Expensive Giveaways to Illegal Immigrants Will Backfire on Liberals
By Liz PeekAs Trump ramps up border security, liberal Democrats vow ever-greater resistance. Blue states are increasingly adopting policies that bolster their pro-immigrant bona fides, but that may ultimately...
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Trump Can Grow the Economy or Cut Immigration. He Can’t Do Both
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration is fixated on driving down immigration and on driving up economic growth. But there’s good reason to believe that if it succeeds at the first, it will almost certainly fail...
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Can Trump’s Wall Really Pay for Itself Over 10 Years?
By Rob GarverThe original plan for President Trump’s border wall, repeated ad nauseam on the campaign trail, was that it would be paid for by Mexico. On Sunday, though, Attorney General Jeff Sessions floated a...
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Trump Pushes Congress to the Wall to Avoid a Government Shutdown
By Rob GarverThe already-complicated effort to avert a government shutdown on April 29 is taking on another layer of complexity, with the White House demanding that any spending measure that funds the federal...
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Rick Perry, the Oracle of Oops, Prepares for 2016
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesEveryone makes mistakes – but when mistakes made on a stage in front of millions of people get magnified, they become a Really Big Problem. It’s been more than two-and-a-half years since Texas...
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A Long Wait at the Back of the Immigration Line
By Eric PianinA political catch phrase of the prolonged immigration reform controversy in Congress is that, regardless of what changes eventually are hammered out, the more than 11 million undocumented residents...
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CEOs Say Government Inaction Has Hurt Jobs and Growth
By Rob GarverThe chief executive officers of some of the largest companies in the country are increasingly frustrated by a Congress that has failed to take action on issues that would boost the economy in the...
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Visas for Afghan Interpreters Reveal Failing Security
By Timothy R. Homan, The Fiscal TimesA bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington is pushing to renew a special visa program for Afghan interpreters who risked their lives working with U.S. forces, an admirable step on the part of...
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Boehner Has Backed Himself into a Corner on Immigration
By Rob GarverHouse Speaker John Boehner says he’s “hell-bent” on passing immigration reform this year and has not bothered to hide his contempt for his colleagues in Congress who see the issue as too politically...