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The fate of 800,000 young immigrants hung in the balance Thursday as top lawmakers, White House officials and President Donald Trump himself squabbled over whether an agreement had been struck to protect them - and if so, exactly what it was. In the face of an intense backlash from conservatives inside the Capitol and out, Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP House members adamantly insisted that there was no agreement to enshrine protections for the immigrants brought to America as children and now here illegally.
President Donald Trump on Thursday revived his assertions that he thought there were "bad dudes" among the people who assembled to oppose a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month. Trump latest comments came one day after he met in private with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate's lone black Republican, at the White House.
Back in April, Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he planned to use the powers of his office to jeopardize health-care access for millions of low-income people, while undermining America's insurance markets - because he believed that voters would blame the ensuing chaos on the Democratic Party, leaving Chuck Schumer desperate to negotiate with the White House over Obamacare repeal. Specifically, the president threatened to stop paying out the Affordable Care Act's "cost-sharing reductions" - subsidies that defray the losses insurers suffer when they sell low-income Obamacare enrollees coverage at below-market rates.
Conservative activist Andy Ogles announced Thursday he will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Tennessee Republican Bob Corker, who has so far refused to divulge whether he will seek a third term. Ogles headed the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the political arm of billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch's network that has often displayed a willingness to take on Republicans - including President Donald Trump - when their policies aren't deemed conservative enough.
President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of statements about his plans for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children - but so far, no one knows definitively what those plans really are. The reason for this, as one Fox News panel explained on Thursday, is that the president keeps contradicting himself on a regular basis.
The Treasury Department said Thursday that a concern about secure communications is what prompted Secretary Steven Mnuchin to inquire about using a government plane for his European honeymoon in August. In a statement, the department said the request for a government plane was withdrawn because a "secure communications option was identified" without the use of a government plane.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, speaks with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, as they arrive for a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, in Washington.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was close to a deal with Democratic congressional leaders on protections for illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children, astounding fellow Republicans again while alarming conservative supporters. Trump, who met with the top Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, at the White House on Wednesday evening, said any final agreement must include significant steps to protect border security including surveillance systems.
U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that he may decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the South American nation reverses a record surge in cocaine production. The shock rebuke for Washington's staunchest ally in Latin America came Wednesday in the White House's annual designation of nations it deems major drug-producing or drug-transit zones.
In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the Capitol in Washington.
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13, 2017... . FILE- In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the Capi... President Donald Trump says he's "fairly close" to reaching a deal with congressional leaders on protections for young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
President Donald Trump says he's "fairly close" to reaching a deal with congressional leaders on protections for young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. But the president says he needs "massive border security."
The president is travelling to the hurricane-stricken state on Thursday to meet with those affected by the storm and learn more about relief efforts. I will be traveling to Florida tomorrow to meet with our great Coast Guard, FEMA and many of the brave first responders & others.
President Donald Trump will hear directly from people affected by Irma's fury as he makes his third visit in less than three weeks to the storm-wracked South. Trump, joined by Vice-President Mike Pence, was scheduled to visit Naples and Fort Myers on Florida's southwestern coast Thursday to meet with those affected by the hurricane and learn more about relief efforts.
In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the Capitol in Washington.
Democratic leaders in Congress have claimed they have agreed a deal with US President Donald Trump to protect the legal status of young undocumented migrants brought to the US as children. Party leaders declared late on Wednesday that Mr Trump had following a dinner at the White House agreed to introduce legislation that would protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation and enact border security measures that did not include building a physical wall with Mexico.
Later, Baldwin heard from constituents concerned about President Donald Trump's proposed cuts to the very same USDA program. She vowed to fight those and other suggested funding reductions from her perch on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
President Donald Trump's rocky relationship with lawmakers has made Congress free enough to act in the country's best interests, Murphy writes. If you were a member of Congress, especially a Republican member of Congress, you could be forgiven for having at least some contempt for President Donald Trump.