Bipartisan Amnesty Dies in Senate; McCain Plan also Fails
With dozens of Dreamers looking on from the viewing gallery, the Senate was unable to muster the votes to approve an amnesty for them and 1.8 million other illegal immigrants, leaving their fate in doubt with just weeks to go before many of them start to lose their DACA protections. President Trump hastened the defeat of one bipartisan plan after he issued the first firm veto threat of his tenure, saying the proposal to couple an amnesty with $25 billion in border wall money didn’t do enough to stop future illegal immigration. Senators also shot down a more generous amnesty plan from Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and a more enforcement-minded ... Read More
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Trump Admin Stakes out Bipartisan Ground in Gun Debate
The Trump administration’s health secretary said he is open to having the government study the roots of gun violence in the wake of the latest mass shooting at a high school, breaking with a long-held interpretation of federal law. Secretary Alex Azar’s announcement Thursday appeared to stake out bipartisan ground in a debate that has grown frustratingly divided and calcified with each killing spree. For more than two decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said federal law prohibits it from researching gun violence in any way that might be used to justify gun control measures. Mr. Azar, though, said the law — which is renewed each year as part of a spending bill — “does not in any way impede our ability to conduct our research mission. It’s simply about advocacy.” Read More
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CIA Gives Classified Information To Favored Reporters
Intelligence officials can selectively release classified information to trusted journalists while withholding the same information from other citizens who request it through open records laws, CIA lawyers argued Wednesday. In a motion filed in New York federal court, the CIA claimed that limited disclosures to reporters do not waive national security exemptions to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies frequently deny records requests on the basis of protecting sensitive national security information, one of nine exemptions written into the federal FOIA law. The case stems from lawsuit against the CIA by New York-based independent journalist Adam Johnson, who had used FOIA to ... Read More
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IRS Still Paying Bonuses to Tax Cheat Employees
The IRS is still paying bonuses to nearly 2,000 bad employees, including more than two dozen who were actual tax-cheats themselves, the agency’s inspector general said in a new report this week. The audit suggests the tax agency’s efforts to crack down on bonuses have not fully succeeded, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. IRS screening did stop more than 1,000 employees with tax problems from getting bonuses, but 1,962 employees with discipline problems — and 26 who had been found to have intentionally cheated on their tax returns — were still paid bonuses in 2016 and 2017, topping $1.7 million. Other employees who weren’t in full compliance ... Read More
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4 Big Lies in Anti-Trump Ad '30 Seconds to Nuclear War'
California billionaire Tom Steyer has pledged to spend $40 million in a national campaign to impeach President Trump, and his latest broadside comes in the form of a 30-second ad riddled with half-truths, inaccuracies, and innuendo. The ad, paid for by Steyer personally and not by his NextGen America political action committee, is part of his "Need to Impeach" campaign that is airing in all 50 states. Democrats have been reluctant to publicly embrace the campaign by the top Democratic donor, fearing it could complicate their efforts to recapture control of the House in November. President Obama’s former top political strategist, David Axelrod, has ... Read More
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