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MORE has told Republican senators that he’s open to a new proposal on prison and sentencing reform, giving new life to an issue that seemed hopelessly stalled on Capitol Hill. The compromise presented to Trump by Republican senators at a White House meeting on Wednesday would combine the prison reform bill passed by the House in May — the First Step Act — with four sentencing reform provisions that have bipartisan Senate backing, according to a source familiar with the meeting.   “We passed the First Step Act through the House, and we're working with the Senate to pa

MORE is set to visit Ohio on Saturday as Republicans scramble to hang onto a reliably red seat in a must-win special House election next week, the final one before November's midterms. Polls show a dead-even race between Republican Troy Balderson and Democrat Danny O’Connor in a district that Trump won by 11 points in 2016. The seat, previously held by retired Rep.

A senior official from the political network affiliated with billionaire conservative businessman Charles Koch sent a letter to donors on Friday saying the network stands by its decision not to support Republicans that break from their free market ideology on issues like spending and trade. The letter, from Koch Industries general counsel Mark Holden, says the network “has never been an appendage of the Republican Party” and is proud to hold elected officials accountable when they fall out of line, regardless of party identity. Holden also accused the Republican National Committee

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In his 25-page opinion, Judge John Bates said the Trump White House had again failed to provide justification for its proposal to end the Obama-era program, under which nearly 800,000 people brought to the country illegally as children, known as "Dreamers," have received work permits and deferral from deportation. The judge also said in his opinion that he has agreed to delay his ruling t

A series of tweets MORE sent in November promising to halt imports of elephant trophies blindsided staffers in his own administration and cut off months of planning to ease the import process, newly released emails show. Trump’s tweet to put “on hold” the highly controversial imports from Zimbabwe and Zambia, a day after it was announced that African elephant trophies would be allowed into the U.S for the first time since 2014, led to widespread public backlash from lawmakers in both parties, animal rights groups and conservative figures such as Fox News host Laura In

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The TAKE with Rick Klein American politics is under attack. Who, exactly, is leading the fight back? Last week brought news that Sen. Claire McCaskill’s office was the subject of a phishing attempt that appears to be linked to Facebook pages and accounts playing on divisive political issues. The former attempt was thwarted by Microsoft.

The TAKE with Rick Klein It's all connected. And it's all about Trump. President Donald Trump's two most powerful means of political communication – rallies and tweets – have been on full display, with another campaign event coming Thursday in Pennsylvania, and yet another Saturday in Ohio. The two Trump shows often seem disjointed, if not at cross-purposes.

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