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Get the latest news on President Donald Trump's return to the White House and the new Congress.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing mounting calls to step down after he voted in favor of the Republicans' spending package Friday. The Republican bill has been described as a "blank check" for the White House to keep defunding and dismantling government services and agencies. Calls have been mounting for New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to primary Schumer, who was joined by eight other Democratic senators in voting for the bill. "This was one of the most utterly embarrassing strategic blunders on behalf of the Democrats that I've seen," says Democratic strategist Waleed Shahid. He criticizes Schumer for "his surrender" to Trump and Elon Musk's drastic defunding of the federal government after Schumer himself had warned against it. "You don't say there's a fire, and then you give the arsonist a match and gasoline. And that's effectively what Chuck Schumer did."
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The debate has sparked a wider dilemma about the broader purpose of welfare
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Responses to Senator Chuck Schumer's reversal on the stopgap spending bill. Also: A Trump threat to law firms; the risk of TB; theaters in peril.
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The chancellor will unveil plans to cut bureaucracy as the government continues its bid to slash red tape.
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Los aviones deportados venezolanos que aterrizaron en El Salvador parecían desobedecer a un juez federal que había ordenado que regresaran a los detenidos a Estados Unidos.
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President Trump has invoked a controversial 18th-century law last used to justify the arrest and internment of 30,000 Japanese, German and Italian nationals during World War II, as part of his ongoing crusade against immigrants. Citing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the Trump administration deported more than 130 immigrants who have been accused, often with little to no evidence, of gang affiliation. The ACLU won a judicial order against the deportations, which the Trump administration ignored, allowing the flights to continue to El Salvador, where authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele received the deportees at a notorious supermax prison. We speak to Lee Gelernt, who argued to stop the flights on behalf of the ACLU, about Trump's attacks on established U.S. immigration law. We cover the second Trump's administration's attempts to incarcerate immigrants at the Guantánamo military prison and end birthright citizenship, as well as the ongoing effects of his previous administration's policies of family separation and countrywide travel bans.
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President Donald Trump spoke at the Department of Justice Friday in an unprecedented speech in which he threatened to take revenge on his political enemies, from the press to the FBI itself. "It was a typical rambling and hate-filled diatribe," says Maryland Congressmember Jamie Raskin. "Nobody has ever taken a sledgehammer to the traditional boundary between independent criminal law enforcement, on the one side, and presidential political will and power, on the other." Raskin, who spoke at a press conference in response to Trump's address outside of the Department of Justice, is a former constitutional law professor and served as the Democrats' lead prosecutor for Trump's second impeachment over the January 6 Capitol insurrection. He also responds to Trump's "illegal" invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and his attempt to deport foreign-born university students and faculty. Trump's sweeping efforts to make the United States hostile to immigrants "creates danger for everybody," warns Raskin. Finally, Raskin responds to recent divisions within the Democratic Party over a GOP spending bill. He urges congressional Democrats to present a "unified plan" and "common strategy" for resisting a Republican supermajority loyal to Trump.
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A debate over a government shutdown has exploded into an argument about the Democrats' leadership in the Trump era.
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The chaotic effort to reduce the government's real estate portfolio is another example of the setbacks the administration has faced as officials try to carry out President Trump's agenda.
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Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, continued to face criticism from members of his own party after he reversed course and allowed the stopgap spending bill to come to a vote.
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"Oopsie … Too late," El Salvador's president said, mocking a court order that deportation flights to his country turn back to the United States. Top administration officials thanked him.
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The transfer of 238 migrants accused of being gang members to El Salvador has created panic among Venezuelans who worry about the fate of their loved ones.
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Sir Keir Starmer has faced concerns from Labour backbenchers who have expressed anger at proposals.
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The president has launched a campaign to remove noncitizens who protested against Israel -- and bend university administrators to his will.
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