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WH: Trump hasn’t given up on Mexico paying for border wall

January 9, 2018

President Trump has not given up on his campaign pledge to have Mexico pay for the border wall despite a recent $18 billion request to Congress for funding to start the project. When a reporter asked if Trump had abandoned that promise,…

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CNN’s Bash: Meeting showed ‘the presidency’ many thought Trump was ‘capable of’

January 9, 2018

CNN’s Dana Bash on Tuesday praised President Trump after a bipartisan meeting on immigration.Bash said the meeting, in which Trump and lawmakers said they settled on parameters for a deal involving border security and protections for “Dreamers” —…

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Top refugee official at State Department sidelined: report

January 9, 2018

A top official at the State Department working on refugee admissions has reportedly been moved to a temporary assignment in what some fear is part of the Trump administration’s plan to stifle the flow of refugees resettling in the United States….

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WH: North Korea participation in Olympics ‘doesn’t affect the US’

January 9, 2018

The White House said Tuesday that North Korea’s decision to participate in next month’s Winter Olympics will not affect American participation in the event. Speaking from the podium in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House, …

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Club for Growth comes out against Trump proposal to bring back earmarks

January 9, 2018

Club for Growth, a top conservative group, on Tuesday came out against President Trump’s call for Congress to consider bringing back earmarks.“If Republicans bring back earmarks, then it virtually guarantees that they will lose the House,” Club…

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CNN’s Bash Praises Trump Over Immigration Meeting: ‘This Is the Presidency Many’ Thought He Was Capable Of

January 9, 2018

Tuesday on CNN’s “Wolf,” network political correspondent Dana Bash praised President Donald Trump’s bipartisan congressional meeting. Bash said, “There is a lot to discuss with regard to the substance. There a lot of unanswered questions and a lot of real discussions in this room, but it definitely bears underscoring. Look we all covered a lot of photo ops for the sake of bringing the cameras in to send an image around the world. That’s not what this was. We are as skeptical as they come. That’s fair to say. This really was a negotiation. We really got to be the fly on the wall listening to the way they talk. I’m really not convinced that it would have been any different had the cameras not been in there. I was just communicating with now two Republicans who were in that meeting who said they had no idea that the cameras were going to stay in there as long as they did.” She continued, “I’m sure I will get hit for this, and I don’t care. The bottom line is this is a year ago. This is the presidency that many people thought Donald Trump was capable of. We don’t know

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Trump calls for DACA fix, still wants wall in bipartisan immigration talk

January 9, 2018

President Donald Trump is meeting with bipartisan lawmakers on Tuesday to discuss a way to protect and keep thousands of young undocumented immigrants, who are protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, from having to leave the country.

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Source says Bannon had to choose between Breitbart or politics

January 9, 2018

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Trump contradicts self repeatedly in immigration meeting

January 9, 2018

President Donald Trump appeared to contradict himself multiple times in a meeting on immigration with a bipartisan group of lawmakers Tuesday — a reflection of growing frustration from Capitol Hill about the lack of direction from the White House on the issue.