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Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

The organization tasked with putting on tax filings made public Thursday. The adviser, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, created a company, WIS Media Partners based in California that handled some of the festivities throughout the days leading up to the president’s inauguration. The firm, as described by a source with knowledge of Winston-Wolkoff’s dealings, paid out contracts to other sub-contractors that were hired, used s

President Donald Trump’s long-time attorney, Michael D. Cohen, admitted on Wednesday that in a “private transaction” in 2016, he used his “own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000” to Stephanie Clifford, a porn star known as Stormy Daniels. Clifford has claimed that she had an affair with Trump at a 2006 Lake Tahoe golf tournament. Cohen insisted that the payment was legal, and that neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign reimbursed him or was a party to the transaction.

President Donald Trump has often pointed to mental illness as the underlying cause for mass shootings, but one of his earliest actions as president was to undo a regulation that would have made it more difficult for people with a known mental illness to buy guns. Nearly a year ago, on Feb. 28, 2017, President Trump signed H.J. Res.

immigration reform, one of which was backed by the White House. With the hopes Congress comes to an agreement on immigration this week now completely out of reach, the fate of the Dreamers — and the deadline for Congress to act — is now murkier than ever. The Trump-endorsed bill, sponsored by Republican Senator pathway to citizenship. “This vote is proof that Chuck Schumer of New

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capital source In one of country’s most liberal congressional districts, Baker clocks in at a 66 percent favorable, 18 percent unfavorable rating among respondents.  capital source Gadfly GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively sent the party’s executive director, Matthew St. Hilaire, a forceful letter this week.  capital source US Representative Michael E. Capuano leads primary challenger City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, according to a new poll.

Students and teachers who survived the shooting at a Florida high school pleaded for legislative action after their classmates and coaches were killed.   US Representative Michael E. Capuano leads primary challenger City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, according to a new poll.   President Trump cut an Obama-era regulation that added to the national gun background check database the names of people who are receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses.

Students and teachers who survived the shooting at a Florida high school pleaded for legislative action after their classmates and coaches were killed.   US Representative Michael E. Capuano leads primary challenger City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, according to a new poll.   President Trump cut an Obama-era regulation that added to the national gun background check database the names of people who are receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses.