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U.S. companies are speaking out against MORE's escalating trade war with China, with major players such as Walmart saying tariffs are forcing them to raise prices on consumer goods for Americans. The price hikes could complicate things for Trump as the 2020 campaign picks up. The president has repeatedly asserted that China, and not U.S.

On Thursday, President Trump announced his plan to reform the legal immigration system such that foreign nationals would be selected based on their merit, skills, and education level and then go through a rigorous assimilation period before obtaining permanent residence. While the plan does not reduce the level of legal immigration — where more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted to the U.S.

“The contempt for women is contagious,” Gillibrand wrote. She added, “But hear this: If it’s a fight with American women that the Republican Party wants, it’s a fight they’ll have. And it’s a fight they’ll lose.” Included in the tweet was a link to The Washington Post’s coverage of Missouri’s latest move against abortion. As Breitbart News’s  Dr.

“Well, let me just say this. We have never not said that there was a crisis — there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, and some of it provoked by the actions taken by the administration,” Pelosi stated during her weekly press conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Wednesday. “What is happening at the border is tragic and we hope to address some of that in the disaster supplemental,” the California Democrat added.

Breitbart News has exclusively obtained a heretofore unreported-on police report from days before the 2016 presidential election that describes how a cocaine pipe that authorities determined was used to smoke cocaine was found in a rental car returned to an Arizona Hertz location in the middle of the night. Also found in the vehicle were several personal effects of Hunter Biden, then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son, like two of his DC driver’s licenses, multiple credit cards, and personally identifying information like a Delaware Attorney General badge and a U.S.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock says he is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The 53-year-old on Tuesday became the third governor in a race with almost two dozen candidates, but Bullock is the only statewide elected official to win a state that President Donald Trump carried in 2016. That’s a key part of Bullock’s argument.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied support for the Green New Deal on Monday night, with the New York congresswoman saying there should be ‘‘no middle ground’’ when it comes to climate change and the Vermont senator calling for a political revolution. Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, called for an end to all tax breaks and subsidies for the oil and gas industry as the first step of the Green New Deal, which seeks to shift the U.S.

WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren announced Tuesday that she is refusing an invitation to appear on President Trump’s favorite TV channel, bucking the trend of Democratic 2020 hopefuls appearing on Fox News town halls to broaden their voter outreach. “Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists,” Warren said in a series of tweets Tuesday.

South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg “slow-jammed” the news with Jimmy Fallon in an appearance on “The Tonight Show” on Monday night, though he mostly played it safe during the recurring bit, leaving most of the jokes to Fallon. Buttigieg opened the segment with talking points that wouldn’t sound out of place in a stump speech, telling viewers he thought it was time for “a new generation of leaders” and pledging to focus on issues during the campaign, an area where he’s drawn criticism. “I’ll get big money out of politics, and I’d support getting rid of the el

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr is stepping up the probe into the origins of the Russia investigation, naming a U.S. attorney to oversee the investigation and working with intelligence chiefs to see how surveillance was conducted. Barr tapped John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to lead the inquiry, but remains directly involved in the probe, which he initiated about three weeks ago, according to a person familiar with the matter.