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As he heads toward a reelection fight, Governor Baker used the address to further distance himself from President Trump’s hardline policies and harsh rhetoric.  The government shutdown may have ended, but Congress and the White House have only 16 days to work out a complex immigration bill.

As he heads toward a reelection fight, Governor Baker used the address to further distance himself from President Trump’s hardline policies and harsh rhetoric.  The government shutdown may have ended, but Congress and the White House have only 16 days to work out a complex immigration bill.

Progressives are hammering Sen.

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MORE has signed a stop-gap government funding bill, officially ending the three day-long government shutdown. Trump signed the bill Monday night after Senate Democrats struck a deal on legislation earlier in the day. “I am pleased that Democrats in Congress have come to their senses,” Trump said in a statement, which White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read to reporters at her daily briefing earlier in the day.  The House later passed the measure approved by the Senate, sending it to Trump for his signature. Senate Democrats agreed to the deal after Se

  MORE on Monday evening signed a government spending measure, ending a government shutdown that began at midnight on Friday. The stop-gap funding, which expires Feb.

Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

‘‘Are we being watched?’’ I ask Trevor Paglen at his central Berlin studio. The prewar apartment was once surely the most surveilled place in the city, having formerly belonged to his friend Laura Poitras, the director who helped Edward Snowden go public. ‘‘We’re always being watched,’’ he replies. The space is filled with computers: Against one wall, an assistant writes code while another researches data used to train artificial intelligence.

A Democratic congressman said President midterm elections as a result. “Next November, we’ll deal with the ‘kidnappers’ at the election, at the polls,” Gutierrez said. Stephanopoulos noted that White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short said in his appearance on "This Week" Sunday that funding the border wall would not be enough and that there also need to be changes in two practices that enable legal immigration -- the visa lottery system and chain

Federal lawmakers are now in a shutdown standoff: Democrats are refusing to support a bill funding the government unless they have a deal on immigration. Republicans are refusing to negotiate on immigration until Democrats support a bill to fund the government. But amid the noise and recriminations, President Chuck Schumer are tantalizingly close to a surprising immigration deal that would protect the 'Dreamers,' approximately 800,000 young immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S.