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After a tumultuous day, an overnight cliffhanger of a vote and a record-breaking speech, Republicans finally managed to wear down internal resistance and muscle their domestic policy bill through the House.
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Many Republicans had harshly criticized President Trump's marquee bill extending tax cuts and slashing social safety net programs — almost right up until the moment they voted for it.
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Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, delayed a final House vote with an impassioned speech that lasted nearly nine hours.
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Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm elections.
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To secure a key vote, an "absurd policy" was created that winds up encouraging states to make more mistakes.
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Deep in the Florida Everglades, at an abandoned airfield surrounded by barren swampland, local law enforcement authorities are opening the doors to a huge tent facility that hopes to lock up immigrants swept up in the Trump administration's mass deportation machine. Republicans have branded the still-unapproved facility "Alligator Alcatraz," with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier boasting that the state can afford to keep staff and safety costs low because the wild animals of the swamp will provide security and prevent escapes. Immigrant rights advocates warn that the cramped facility will further isolate immigrants who are being rounded up indiscriminately and detained without charge, and could lead to life-threatening overheating and overcrowding. We speak to Nery Lopez of Detention Watch Network and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council for more about the "inhumane" proposed detention camp.
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