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An outside group supporting MORE intends to spend $250 million in six battleground states as part of a major effort to boost his chances of being reelected in 2020, according to officials with knowledge of the plans. America First Action super PAC is preparing to pour resources into states with expensive media markets and high numbers of electoral votes.

Punishing tariffs ordered by MORE are set to go into place Friday on Chinese goods, escalating a high-stakes battle with major risks for the economy and his reelection. GOP lawmakers have been pressuring Trump to get a deal with China that would lower tariffs hurting U.S.

“I was thinking of a Chinese proverb that goes ‘When the wind changes, some people build walls, some people build windmills,'” Buttigieg said in response to Trump’s remarks about him.

As Breitbart News reported, there were nearly 100,000 apprehensions of migrants, border crossers, and asylum applicants at the U.S.-Mexico border last month. This is nearly nine times the level of illegal immigration compared to April 2017, when just a little more than 11,000 border crossers were apprehended. Likewise, projections by Princeton Policy researcher Steven Kopits reveal that the U.S.

While McConnell was clear in restating his view that the case is closed, contradicting Burr’s rogue subpoena of President Donald Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump, Jr., he also did not criticize Burr. Hannity asked McConnell: “What is Senator Burr doing? Did he not hear your message?” In response, McConnell replied: Hannity followed up, asking: “Specifically, is that your message to Senator Burr?” McConnell replied: “That’s my message to the public.

As of this writing, according to RCP’s running average of recent polls, Trump enjoys a healthy 45.1 percent job approval rating, while 52 percent disapprove.

President Trump on Monday defended his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria, the day after Red Sox manager Alex Cora cited the issue as the reason he will not join the team’s White House visit. In a pair of tweets on Monday morning, Trump incorrectly claimed $91 billion had gone toward rebuilding Puerto Rico in the wake of the devastating 2017 hurricane that caused thousands of deaths and decimated t

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, media attack dog and fixer for President Donald Trump, said Monday there ‘‘remains much to be told’’ as he heads to prison to begin a three-year prison sentence for crimes including campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments made on Trump’s behalf. Cohen walked into the Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville around 11:45 a.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 former federal prosecutors say in a new letter that President Donald Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice for his acts if he were anyone other than president. The letter was signed by more than 370 ex-prosecutors who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler has scheduled a Wednesday vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the battle between the Democrat-led House and President Donald Trump over special counsel Robert Mueller’s report . Nadler is proposing to hold Barr in contempt after the Justice Department declined to provide the committee with a full, unredacted version of special counsel Mueller’s report on Trump and Russia. The committee had given Barr until 9 a.m.