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Note to followers: This account has been rebranded and will now feature @WSJ and @WSJpolitics news and analysis on the partial government shutdown and negotiations over the border wall.
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Court says Trump administration’s explanations for question don’t match evidence @brkend @JessBravin wsj.com/articles/supreme-cou…
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SCOTUS Ruling Effectively Prevents Citizenship Question for Now; Court Says Trump Admin’s Stated Reason for Citizenship Question Appears “Contrived," via @JessBravin @brkend on.wsj.com/2NwnsXV
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Good read here by @chadsday on Julian Castro's breakout performance at the first Democratic debate
Julián Castro said his aggressive stance toward Beto O’Rourke Wednesday helped his visibility with voters. “People are looking at me in a new way today,” he said. wsj.com/articles/julian-cast…
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At a private meeting in the West Wing yesterday to discuss strategies on USMCA, Pence stunned some biz executives by rehashing the Trump-Pelosi meltdown from Wednesday. “It really wasn’t the time or place,” one participant said.
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Pence team & other senior Trump advisers want to force immediate action on USMCA. But Lighthizer warns that the last time a GOP prez jammed a Dem-controlled House on a trade pact, they lost the Colombia deal in 2008. The speaker at the time: Nancy Pelosi.
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Trump says he’s sending a “relatively small” 1,500 troops to the Middle East for “mostly protective” purposes to counter Iran. wsj.com/articles/trump-says-…
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Citing threat from Iran, the Trump administration is sidestepping Congress to green light $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE, with side deals for Jordan, Israel and others. Democratic lawmakers are outraged. wsj.com/articles/trump-invok…
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The Senate brought back to life a long dormant export-finance agency. wsj.com/articles/senate-set-…
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A wrenching portrait of the border from @acaldwellwsj: one father and daughter were placed for days in a concrete cell with sink and toylet-no bed. The facility was built for single men to stay hours, not days wsj.com/articles/not-built-f…
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The Trump administration completed its rule requiring drugmakers to include list prices for most drugs in television ads, pushing ahead with efforts to improve transparency in health-care costs despite opposition from pharmaceutical companies.
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‘When you get a good lender, that’s the last person you want to throw out.’ wsj.com/articles/charlie-mun… via @WSJ
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And it was Trump, via Twitter, not Cain, who announced that Cain was bowing out
Herman Cain, who withdraw from consideration for the Fed board post last week, said he was “very committed” to sticking with the confirmation process five days before bowing out. wsj.com/articles/herman-cain…
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“You guys did everything to stop me.” How President Trump soured on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
BIG new story from @learyreports & Brody Mullins wsj.com/articles/washingtons…
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“You guys did everything to stop me.” How President Trump soured on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington’s largest lobbyist, and worsened its troubles. A great inside Washington story by Brody Mullins and @learyreports wsj.com/articles/washingtons… via @WSJ
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New: Armed with hundreds of pages of new revelations of Trump’s efforts to curtail and restrict Mueller, Dems face the politically risky decision of what to do next: Use it to campaign against Trump or try to impeach him first. W/@siobhanehughes wsj.com/articles/democrats-g…
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that "countless members of the FBI" had indicated they did not support Comey. She later told Mueller's team that her comment was "not founded on anything," according to the report. wsj.com/livecoverage/mueller…
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"It also represents a test case in whether a divided capital awash in trivial controversies and angry Twitter-fests can manage a serious debate on an important policy idea." wsj.com/articles/gas-tax-hik… via @WSJ
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President Trump’s news conference with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday again put on display an approach to diplomacy that prizes personalities. By @aduehren wsj.com/articles/like-minded…
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Progressive? Pragmatist? Socialist? Democratic presidential candidates split over how to address their party’s increasingly vocal liberal base, w/ @reidepstein on.wsj.com/2CpE779
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The Fed's "dot plot" is causing more grief because as the central bank trims forward guidance from its statement (a consensus document), the dots are bound to get more attention, even though the dots aren't really a product designed to show the consensus wsj.com/articles/fed-officia…
