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WASHINGTON — Days before the first Democratic presidential debates, Sen. Bernie Sanders and House progressives are unveiling legislation cancelling all student debt, going further than a signature proposal by Sen. Elizabeth Warren as the two jockey for support from the party’s liberal base. By canceling all student loans, Sanders says the proposal addresses an economic burden for 45 million Americans.

MORE announced his administration will slap new sanctions on Iran as tensions between Washington and Tehran mount.  “Iran cannot have Nuclear Weapons! Under the terrible Obama plan, they would have been on their way to Nuclear in a short number of years, and existing verification is not acceptable.

Democratic presidential candidates were pressed on their support for abortion Saturday at a first-of-its-kind forum exclusively focused on reproductive rights. The forum, hosted by Planned Parenthood in South Carolina, presented candidates with an opportunity to stand out on an issue that’s driven the Democratic primary so far. But the forum also highlighted differences between candidates, with some, like MORE (N.Y.) vowing to go further than others to protect and expand abortion access. “I will guarantee that no matter where you live in this country, all 50 states, y

Democrats are feeling a sense of déjà vu as infighting among presidential candidates intensifies. And with less than a week until the first 2020 primary debate, the sniping is expected to worsen. Democrats are concerned they will have another 2016 on their hands, when the primary grew so bitter that some supporters of Sen. MORE. They are worried that a long, bruising primary season could ultimately benefit MORE on Election Day. "Democrats will beat Donald Trump by making this a referendum on Donald Trump.

MORE announced he would delay for two weeks an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation that would have deported as many as 2,000 migrant families. Trump said the delay would allow for negotiations on Capitol Hill regarding immigration reform. “At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border.

Senate Republicans, eager to avert a government shutdown or automatic spending cuts, want acting White House chief of staff MORE pushed to the sidelines in budget negotiations with Democrats. GOP lawmakers would prefer Treasury Secretary MORE take the lead in representing the White House, as they see him being more amenable to a two-year spending deal that would also raise the debt limit. Mulvaney, on the other hand, is viewed as resistant to striking a two-year deal, which would take the prospect of another government shutdown off the table

Warren said progressives have been on “defense,” defending Roe v. Wade for 47 years and strictly relying on the courts. That, she argued, needs to change. “But the truth is, we’ve been on defense for 47 years, and it’s not working,” she said. The GOP, she claimed, has “chipped away” and “hacked away” at the ground under the left’s feet. “And inch at a time, piece at a time, they’ve chipped away, hacked away at the ground under our feet,” Warren explained.

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“At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “If not, Deportations start!” Earlier Saturday, Trump detailed a renewed effort by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to deport illegals. “The people that ICE will apprehend have already been ordered to be deported,” he wrote. “This means that they have run from the law and run from the courts.