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WASHINGTON — It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease Tuesday a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package to care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children detained after crossing the US-Mexico border. The bill passed along party lines after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quelled a mini-revolt by progressives and Hispanic lawmakers who sought significant changes to the legislation.

MIAMI — In a windowless conference room in downtown Miami, Julian Castro practiced answering mock debate questions while an aide kept an eye on the clock, raising two hands in the air whenever Castro spoke longer than one minute. Elsewhere in the city this week, another Democratic presidential contender, California Senator Kamala Harris, huddled with her advisers over Caribbean food. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren squeezed in one last rally with her final debate preparations.

On Tuesday the House of Representatives passed a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package to care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children detained after crossing the US-Mexico border. The bill passed 230-195, nearly along party lines.

MORE of lying about his lack of a 2020 endorsement from former President Obama in an exclusive on-camera interview with Hill.TV. "How he doesn’t get President Obama to endorse him — there has to be some reason why he’s not endorsing him," Trump said outside the Oval Office. "He was the vice president. They seem to have gotten along.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll responded Monday night to in an exclusive interview with The Hill on Monday. “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened.

The White House intends to block MORE from testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Committee later this week about alleged Hatch Act violations. The administration said in a Monday letter to Oversight Chairman to subpoena Conway if she does not appear voluntarily. MORE has staked out an uncompromising position thus far in stonewalling Democratic requests for testimony and documentation as part of ongoing investigations into the administration. Conway was invited to appear before the panel on Wednesday al

MORE on Monday said he would make a nomination to the Supreme Court if there’s a vacancy before the 2020 presidential election. “Would I do that?

MORE said Monday that writer E. Jean Carroll was “totally lying” when she recently accused him of raping her during an encounter in a New York department store in the mid-1990s. In an exclusive interview with The Hill, the president vehemently denied the allegations just hours after Carroll detailed the alleged incident during a cable news interview. “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened.

Last week, President Trump backed down on a plan to deport about 2,000 illegal alien families that have been ordered deported by immigration judges, saying he would use the effort as a bargaining tool in talks with Democrats to pass legislation that reforms the country’s asylum laws. During an interview with Fox News Sunday‘s Chris Wallace, Cotton asked if the U.S.

“We do not seek conflict with Iran or any other country,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office at the signing ceremony.