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The Massachusetts congressman joined protesters in Texas Sunday, blasting President Trump and comparing those who are fleeing violence today to his own ancestors.  Melania Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham says the first lady believes ‘‘we need to be a country that follows all laws,’’ but also one ‘‘that governs with heart.’’  To those who work with immigrants, the parents’ plight was heralded by a series of measures making it harder for kids arriving on the border to get released from government custody and to seek legal status here.  The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, off

The Massachusetts congressman joined protesters in Texas Sunday, blasting President Trump and comparing those who are fleeing violence today to his own ancestors.  Melania Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham says the first lady believes ‘‘we need to be a country that follows all laws,’’ but also one ‘‘that governs with heart.’’  To those who work with immigrants, the parents’ plight was heralded by a series of measures making it harder for kids arriving on the border to get released from government custody and to seek legal status here.  The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, off

The Massachusetts congressman joined protesters in Texas Sunday, blasting President Trump and comparing those who are fleeing violence today to his own ancestors.  Melania Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham says the first lady believes ‘‘we need to be a country that follows all laws,’’ but also one ‘‘that governs with heart.’’  To those who work with immigrants, the parents’ plight was heralded by a series of measures making it harder for kids arriving on the border to get released from government custody and to seek legal status here.  The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, off

MORE’s reality show presidency took a new twist on Friday morning, as he held an impromptu question-and-answer session with reporters on the White House driveway for the first time. It was the kind of event that simultaneously outrages his critics while enthusing his supporters, who see him as taking the fight to the media. It also closed a week that had begun with a very different example of Trump’s fixation on media image.  His summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore drew around 2,500 members of the news media and hit front pages around the world.

MORE will nominate Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official Kathy Kraninger to be the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the White House said Saturday. White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters confirmed Trump’s choice of Kraninger, an associate director at OMB, in a Saturday statement. Kraninger would take the reins of the politically polarizing consumer watchdog agency that Republicans have long fought to weaken.  Walters said the little-known budget official “will bring a fresh perspectiv

MORE’s rhetoric has raised expectations for an ironclad nuclear deal with North Korea following his historic summit with Kim Jong Un, posing diplomatic and political risks for the White House if the unpredictable country fails to follow through. Trump even declared that North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat, a statement contradicted by his own pick to serve as U.S.

MORE will meet on Tuesday with House Republicans to discuss a GOP bill shielding young, undocumented immigrants from deportation, according to a GOP source.  The meeting will happen days before the House is expected to vote on a pair of bills addressing immigration, including a compromise bill between conservatives and centrists.  The news that Trump planned to meet with House Republicans ahead of the vote came after he said in a Friday interview with Fox News that he would

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator MORE’s pro-ethanol agenda. The two senators, MORE from corn-heavy Iowa, are specifically displeased with Pruitt for granting a number of exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) to refineries that allow them to use less ethanol in their fuel mixes. The senators say this is a disappointment given Trump’s promises in Iowa and are quick to point out the string of controversies following Pruitt in voicing their displeasure. “He’s been such a bad actor in so many areas.

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