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How Trump’s Immigration Proposal Could Be Trouble for Democrats Turns out Americans are much more open to restrictions on legal immigration than they are to deporting Dreamers.
Trump’s Surprise Immigration Proposal The White House presented the outline of a deal — amnesty for Dreamers, but big asks — that might just make everyone mad.
Trump Got Us Into This Shutdown, GOP Doesn’t Want His Help Getting Out of It White House aides and congressional leaders are reportedly encouraging him to stay on the sidelines, since he’s already caused enough chaos.
Leaked Memo Shows White House Doesn’t Really Want a Dreamer Deal Staffers at the Justice Department and Homeland Security blasted last week’s bipartisan proposal as a plan to “cripple border security.”
Stephen Miller Attacks CNN’s Journalism During Softball Fox News Interview He said he’s glad his off-air jabs at Jake Tapper were made public, but denied he had to be escorted off set.
It Appears Stephen Miller’s CNN Meltdown Wasn’t Just for Show Jake Tapper suggested he was hamming it up for the president, but Miller reportedly had to be escorted from the studio.
Nobody Seems to Know What Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Wall’ Would Look Like Years after Trump started talking about a border wall, congressional negotiators trying to cut a spending deal still aren’t sure how it’s defined.
Why a Government Shutdown Is Looming Again in January Another month of GOP rule, another month of stressful and arbitrary deadlines.
diy battle of the sexes
Oct. 9, 2017
This White House Aide Is Trying to Sabotage Trump’s DACA Deal The Breitbart wing of the White House is pushing for Trump to demand radical cuts to legal immigration in exchange for showing Dreamers his mercy.
Trump Administration Considers Cutting Refugee Cap to Lowest in Decades After reducing the refugee quota to 50,000 in 2017, the Trump administration may go even lower in 2018.
Could Trump Hold Dreamers Hostage for Border-Wall Funding? The administration may be forced by the courts to cancel protection for Dreamers. So it could be time for a grand bargain to get border-wall funding.
last night on late night
Aug. 10, 2017
Seth Meyers Claims Even Trump Is Scared of Trump’s North Korea Threat “Fire and fury like the world has never seen. Oh, why did the president just say that?”
John Oliver Highlights “Vitamin D-Deficient Minion” Stephen Miller on […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver recaps last week’s exchange between Jim Acosta and Trump’s policy advisor […]
the snl trump cabinet
Aug. 5, 2017
780,000 Dreamers in Danger of Deportation Trump may be pushed by a lawsuit to keep his 2016 promise to kill DACA and deport Dreamers — or they could become a pawn for nativists in Congress.
Trump Planning Steel Tariffs To the Horror of Most of His Cabinet Returning to one of the “America First” preoccupations of his campaign, Trump is on the brink of imposing steel tariffs on China and other countries.
Stephen Miller Writing Big Speech on Islam Trump Is Delivering in Saudi Arabia It’s a very bad idea for Donald Trump to presume to lecture Muslims about Islam. Involving his firebrand aide in that project is even worse.
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right Ten years later, the case looms large in U.S. political culture. For starters, it launched the careers of Richard Spencer and Stephen Miller.
Trump’s Syria Strike Is Latest Sign of Steve Bannon’s Waning Influence Two sources close to Bannon say he argued against the strike, on the grounds it didn’t serve America’s interests.
Trump Team’s Words Could Sabotage the Second Travel Ban, Just Like the First The revised order fixed a lot of legal problems—but the White House can’t fix the paper trail identifying it as an intended “Muslim ban.”
White House Undermining Own Case for the Urgency of a Travel Ban Next time Team Trump tells a court its immigration policies are a matter of immediate national security, its failure to stick to that story may hurt.
When Will Trump Announce a Policy Agenda? Maybe Never. Trump has an opportunity to lay out a detailed policy agenda on February 28 to a joint session of Congress — which needs the guidance. But will he?
the mid-aughts
Feb. 16, 2017
no new messages
Feb. 14, 2017
last night on late night
Feb. 14, 2017
What Is Stephen Miller’s Job, Anyway? The culprit in the travel-ban chaos seems to be this young policy adviser. But it’s hard to say why he’s in the position to do this kind of damage.
Radicalizing American Politics Is Part of the Game Plan for Team Trump Steve Bannon and company seem to see growing fear and anger on the left as a useful thing.
