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Lawmakers are set to introduce legislation Wednesday detailing a border security deal that they hope will prevent a partial government shutdown later this week. Whether MORE (D-Calif.) is expected to have the House vote on the bill as soon as Wednesday. Still, lawmakers and their staffs are frantically finalizing details on divisive issues such as Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention beds. Here’s what we know so far about the deal. Physical barriers The deal includes $1.375 billion to build 5

The Senate will hold a vote on the Green New Deal, an environmental and energy plan touted by progressives, Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday. McConnell told reporters after a meeting of the Senate Republican caucus that he has “great interest” in the plan, which would spell an end for coal, a key economic driver in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky, while promising new jobs for out-of-work miners and other workers. “We’ll give everybody an opportunity to go on record and see how they feel about the Green New Deal,” McConnell said. McConnell did not

Congress is moving forward with a border security deal that would prevent a new shutdown at the end of the week after MORE expressed unhappiness but stopped short of saying he would kill it. Trump, who is getting far less in the $1.375 billion deal for border barriers than he had demanded, said he was “extremely unhappy” with what Democrats had conceded in the negotiations over his border wall. “It’s sad.

“Walls do not save lives. Walls end lives,” O’Rourke said at his pro-open borders rally in El Paso that dueled with President Trump’s rally blocks away. “In the last ten years, more than 4,000 children, woman, and men, have died trying to come to this country to work jobs that no one will take, to be with a family member, to flee horrific brutality, violence, and death in their home countries,” O’Rourke said, falsely claiming that Americans are unwilling to take blue-collar U.S.

On Power 105.1’s Breakfast Club show, co-host Charlamagne tha God asked Harris whether she had ever indulged in the drug. “I did inhale,” Harris responded, before bursting into laughter. “It was a long time ago, but yes. I just broke news!” “Listen, I think [it] gives a lot of people joy,” the former California attorney general added. “And we need more joy.” Later, the senator is asked about the type of music she listened to while smoking. “What does Kamela Harris listen to? What did you listen to when you was high?

The plan to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles by high-speed rail “would cost too much and, respectfully, would take too long,” he told legislators.

“I have to study it. I’m not happy about it. It’s not doing the trick,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting at the White House when asked if he would sign the deal. According to reports, the compromise funding bill would only fund $1.375 billion for only 55 miles of physical border barriers and cap the level of detention beds for ICE.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that he was “not happy” about the bipartisan border security compromise negotiated by congressional leaders, but gave no indication whether he would sign or veto it before another government shutdown hits at midnight Friday. In his first comments since learning details of the deal, Trump said he would have to study it more before deciding what to do.

James Pindell | Ground Game By far the top priority for Democratic voters, according to a CNN poll out this week, is a candidate who has a “good chance to beat Trump.”   Opinion | Margery Eagan The economy may indeed be “thriving” for the near-rich, rich, and super rich.

James Pindell | Ground Game By far the top priority for Democratic voters, according to a CNN poll out this week, is a candidate who has a “good chance to beat Trump.”   Opinion | Margery Eagan The economy may indeed be “thriving” for the near-rich, rich, and super rich.