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Senate Republicans are warning MORE ahead of his State of the Union speech against using a national emergency declaration to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall.  "It seems to me that he's gonna have to go it alone, but there could be a war within the Republican party over the wall," Graham said. He added that "any Republican who denies the president the ability to act as commander in chief, you're going to create a real problem within the party."  The Hill 1625

Senate Democrats introduced legislation on Monday to prevent MORE from using military and disaster relief funds to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall should he declare a national emergency. The legislation would prevent Trump from using funding from the U.S.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) held an increasingly tenuous grip on his office Monday amid nearly unanimous calls for his resignation, while the man who would succeed him fiercely denied allegations of sexual assault. On Monday, the first workday after a racist photo in Northam’s medical school yearbook was published by a conservative website, Northam convened two Cabinet meetings as he fought to hold on to the job he assumed just a year ago. Northam attended his home church on Sunday, a historically black church on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

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MORE will deliver the State of the Union address Tuesday at one of the most vulnerable moments of his presidency — and supporters and detractors alike are skeptical he can turn things around. The problem, they say, is that opinions of Trump have become even more deeply entrenched, both for and against, since the partial government shutdown.

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The White House has hinted that the president will emphasize themes of bipartisanship, even though the address will come in the midst of bitter fights over the border, as a conference committee works against a Feb.

The alleged incident, which was reported by Big League Politics over the weekend, is said to have occurred during the 2004 Democrat National Convention.

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