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WASHINGTON — Republican leaders had muscled through their failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, punted on the perennial brinkmanship over the debt ceiling and finally reached the one issue that all of the party’s factions wanted to be on, tax reform. Then, over a Chinese dinner at the White House with the two top Democrats on Capitol Hill, President Trump threw that momentary sense of satisfaction into disarray, forcing Republicans to confront the subject that packs more emotional and political force than anything they had on their busy agenda: immigration. Virtually nothing can drive Rep

WASHINGTON — An unexpected meeting of the minds between President Trump and Democratic leaders on Thursday made real a possible deal in Congress to pair enhanced border security with legislation to protect young, undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. One day after Mr. Trump hosted Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi for dinner at the White House, the president said he could support legislation to protect the young immigrants known as “Dreamers” from deportation if it were accompanied by a “massive” border security upgrade.

WASHINGTON — An unexpected meeting of the minds between President Trump and Democratic leaders on Thursday made real a possible deal in Congress to pair enhanced border security with legislation to protect young, undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. One day after Mr. Trump hosted Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi for dinner at the White House, the president said he could support legislation to protect the young immigrants known as “Dreamers” from deportation if it were accompanied by a “massive” border security upgrade.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed the ABC News report that he requested a military aircraft for his European honeymoon last month, but said it wasn’t a question of luxury for him and his wife. “Effectively it was a portable office so I could be available and ultimately, we withdrew the request,” Mnuchin said, speaking at a conference sponsored by Politico on Thursday.

Senate Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Trump for dinner at the White House. "He likes us. He likes me anyway," Schumer said in the audio captured by C-SPAN and broadcast live, Thursday. He elaborated further on the conversation. "Here’s what I told him. I said, 'Mr. President, you’re much better off if you can sometimes step right and sometimes left. If you have to step just in one direction you’re boxed,'" Schumer said.

Longtime Roger Stone has agreed to meet with the House Intelligence Committee for a closed-door interview on September 26, according to Stone and a committee source. "I will voluntarily testify for the House Intelligence Committee on Sept 26," Stone confirmed in a statement to ABC News.

President Donald Trump is going to be asking for a lot of action from Congress in the coming weeks and months, and this week he's already hosted two dinners at the White House as a way to talk things out. Whether it's relaxing in his Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this year with the Japanese prime minister and later the Chinese president, or bringing bipartisan groups of congressional leaders together for dinner at the White House, Trump appears to know the value in breaking bread. Unlike formal state dinners, where the menu is

The "wall" becomes fence "renovation," "amnesty" becomes "DACA," and "Nancy and Chuck" become President Trump's new best friends. The world according to Donald J.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Donald Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting and said the attorney general should resign, according to current and former administration officials and others briefed on the matter. The president blamed the appointment of the special counsel, Robert S.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Jeff Sessions later said the demeaning way President Trump addressed him was the most humiliating experience in decades of public life.  The fate of 800,000 young immigrants hung in the balance Thursday as top lawmakers, White House officials and President Trump himself squabbled over whether an agreement had been struck to protect them   President Trump repeated Thursday that he thought there were ‘‘bad dudes’’ among those opposing a white nationalist protest in Charlottesvi