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Trump Tells GOP to ‘Stop Wasting Time’ on Immigration

June 22, 2018 at 7:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump on Friday told Republican lawmakers to “stop wasting their time” on immigration legislation, even as the House grapples to reach a compromise, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!”

Politico: “The tweet puts Ryan in a serious bind. To stave off a discharge petition from moderate Republicans and Democrats, the Wisconsin Republican promised the centrists that he’d give them a vote on some sort of bill they could support. If Ryan listens to Trump and cancels the vote, moderates will be furious.”

“But if Ryan schedules the vote, the result could be catastrophic. GOP members who thought they could support the bill have already started telling leadership that they will no longer vote for it. They simply cannot go up against the president, they say.”

Stephen Miller Stays In the Shadows

June 22, 2018 at 6:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Stephen Miller, the architect of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, was noticeably absent from public view this week as the White House first vociferously defended and then caved on separating migrant children from their parents,” Politico reports.

“That wasn’t an accident. Among White House insiders, there is a sense that the president’s senior adviser for policy is a bad front man for the issue he’s most passionate about. Miller stayed entirely out of the spotlight during days of mounting political pressure, though behind the scenes he visited Capitol Hill on Tuesday night along with Trump to sell House Republicans on immigration legislation.”

“While other White House aides, like national security adviser John Bolton and National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow, are prized by Trump for their smooth defense of his policies on television, Miller is the opposite, valued as a source of ideas that the president believes appeal to his base.”

ABC Plans ‘Roseanne’ Spin Off

June 22, 2018 at 5:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

ABC, which canceled its “Roseanne” revival over its star’s racist tweet, said it will air a Conner family sitcom minus Roseanne Barr this fall, Politico reports.

“ABC ordered 10 episodes of the spinoff after Barr relinquished any creative or financial participation in it, which the network had said was a condition of such a series.”


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Ryan Pushes Immigration Vote Until Next Week

June 22, 2018 at 5:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Speaker Paul Ryan surprised Capitol Hill by delaying a vote on a “compromise“ immigration package until next week, as GOP leaders search for a way to get 218 votes to pass the measure, Politico reports.

“Ryan told lawmakers that leadership may add an E-Verify mandate — an online system that allows employers to confirm the eligibility of employees to work in the United States — as well as other provisions called for by rural state lawmakers to the package.”

Charles Krauthammer Is Dead

June 22, 2018 at 5:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and intellectual provocateur who championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died June 21 at 68,” the Washington Post reports.

Doors

June 22, 2018 at 1:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Texas congressional candidate M.J. Hegar (D) has one of the most compelling ads of this campaign season.

Chaos at the Border

June 22, 2018 at 12:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The immediate fate of more than 2,300 immigrant children remains unclear as government officials and advocates scrambled Thursday to determine their next steps after President Donald Trump suddenly ended his policy of separating families apprehended at the border,” the Houston Chronicle reports.

Said Michelle Brané, director of migrant rights at the Women’s Refugee Commission: “It’s chaos. Everything is just moving really fast … I am not convinced they have a plan for reunifying those they have separated.”

New York Times: “Parents said they still did not know how to track down their children, and struggled to find out any information through a 1-800 hotline set up by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement. Others who had located their children said they were still separated by thousands of miles and a bureaucratic maze they did not know how to navigate.”

Fox News vs. North Korea State TV

June 22, 2018 at 12:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Daily Show did a little comparison with a North Korea-Fox News “progagnda-off.”

Trump Goes After the Safety Net

June 22, 2018 at 12:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump, spurred on by conservatives who want him to slash safety net programs, unveiled on Thursday a plan to overhaul the federal government that could have a profound effect on millions of poor and working-class Americans,” the New York Times reports.

“Produced over the last year by Mr. Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, it would reshuffle social welfare programs in a way that would make them easier to cut, scale back or restructure.”

“Among the most consequential ideas is a proposal to shift the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a subsistence benefit that provides aid to 42 million poor and working Americans, from the Agriculture Department to a new mega-agency that would have ‘welfare’ in its title — a term Mr. Trump uses as a pejorative catchall for most government benefit programs.”

National Enquirer Let Cohen Approve Stories

June 22, 2018 at 12:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“During the presidential campaign, National Enquirer executives sent digital copies of the tabloid’s articles and cover images related to Donald Trump and his political opponents to Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen is in advance of publication, according to three people with knowledge of the matter — an unusual practice that speaks to the close relationship between Trump and David Pecker, chief executive of American Media Inc., the Enquirer’s parent company,” the Washington Post reports.

“Although the company strongly denies ever sharing such material before publication, these three individuals say the sharing of material continued after Trump took office.”

U.S. Preparing to House 20K Migrant Children

June 22, 2018 at 12:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border,” the New York Times reports.

Did Cambridge Analytica Have the Hacked Emails?

June 21, 2018 at 5:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Paul Wood, writing for The Spectator:

An American lawyer I know told me that he was approached by a Cambridge Analytica employee after the election. They had had the Clinton emails more than a month before they were published by WikiLeaks: ‘What should I do?’ Take this to Mueller, the lawyer replied.

House Narrowly Passes Farm Bill

June 21, 2018 at 4:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A deeply polarizing farm bill passed the House on party lines Thursday, a month after the legislation went down to stunning defeat after getting ensnared in the toxic politics of immigration,” the Washington Post reports.

“The legislation, which passed 213-211, includes controversial new work rules for most adult food-stamp recipients — provisions that are dead on arrival in the Senate.”

House Republicans Delay Immigration Vote

June 21, 2018 at 3:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Republicans faced growing opposition to their bill despite last-minute lobbying from President Trump,” the Washington Post reports.

“In the face of defeat, Republicans decided prior to an emergency closed-door meeting with rank and file members to postpone the vote until Friday.”

New York Times: “The compromise bill is facing trouble with conservatives, who would be taking a political risk by supporting a bill that has been derided as offering ‘amnesty’ to young undocumented immigrants. With its chances appearing dim, Speaker Paul Ryan declined to speculate on the House’s next move. Republicans in the Senate are backing narrow legislation to ensure that children are not taken from their parents at the border.”

Melania Trump Visits Detained Children

June 21, 2018 at 3:41 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Daily Mail: “Melania Trump made quite the sartorial statement on Thursday when she donned a jacket with the words, ‘I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?’ written across the back while boarding a plane to visit immigrant children being held at the border in Texas.”

“The 48-year-old first lady was pictured arriving at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland wearing the $39 khaki design from Zara, before boarding her plane to fly to Texas.”

Bevin Won’t Rule Out Challenge to McConnell

June 21, 2018 at 1:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

In an interview with the Lexington Herald Leader, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) “did not rule out a bid against” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in 2020, “but said, ‘No, I’m worried about being governor. I’m the governor, that’s my focus.’”

Baldwin Leads In Re-Election Race

June 21, 2018 at 12:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Marquette Law School poll in Wisconsin shows Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) ahead of GOP challengers Leah Vukmir (R), 49% to 40%, and Kevin Nicholson (R), 50% to 39%.

U.S. Will Stop Prosecuting Migrant Parents

June 21, 2018 at 12:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The U.S. government will no longer file criminal charges against parents who cross the border illegally, a senior U.S. Customs official told the Washington Post.

“The dramatic about-face comes just one day after President Trump signed an executive order ending his administration’s widely denounced practice of separating families apprehended at the Mexico border.”

“Trump’s order said the government would maintain a ‘zero tolerance’ policy toward those who break the law, but a senior U.S. official, when asked to explain how the federal government would change enforcement practices, told The Washington Post that Border Patrol agents have been instructed to stop sending parents with children to federal courthouses for prosecution.”

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