POLITICS

Democratic mayors of “sanctuary cities” set to testify before Congress

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  17m ago DOJ has threatened to prosecute local officials who don’t comply with immigration agenda The hearing will likely highlight a standoff between the federal government and local jurisdictions that has emerged since Mr. Trump took office. In January, the new leadership at the Justice Department directed federal prosecutors and law enforcement to focus

Supreme Court won’t lift lower court order unfreezing $2 billion in foreign aid

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt a lower court order that required the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding, clearing the way for the money to flow to groups that have done work for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development overseas. The decision from

Supreme Court won’t lift lower court order unfreezing foreign aid funds

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt a lower court order that required the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding, clearing the way for the money to flow to groups that have done work for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development overseas. The decision from

Slotkin Depicts Democrats as Defenders of Democracy in Trump Rebuttal

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The freshman senator conversely painted the president as reckless in his approach to change. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) painted congressional Democrats as the defenders of democracy in delivering her party’s rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s first congressional address of his second term. While Trump’s March 4 speech touted his sweeping policy changes as the start