Defense spending -- Planning, Immigration policy -- Evaluation, Border security -- Planning, Border security -- Finance, United States. Department of Defense -- Planning, United States. Department of Defense -- Finance, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Company business planning, and Company financing
Abstract
The administration's plan to divert more military funds to building a border wall is the latest example of the long-running erosion of Congress's power of the purse. WASHINGTON -- When [...]
Disaster relief -- Laws, regulations and rules, Disaster relief -- United States, Legislators -- Social policy, United States. Congress -- Social policy, Government regulation, and Emergency and Other Relief Services
Abstract
WASHINGTON - California wildfires. Severe flooding in the Midwest. A hurricane in the Florida panhandle. Puerto Rico still struggling to recover from 2017's Hurricane Maria. These are all pressing natural [...]
Immigration policy -- Political aspects, Border security -- Political aspects, Border security -- Laws, regulations and rules, Illegal immigrants -- Emigration and immigration, Illegal immigrants -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, and Government regulation
Abstract
Even before that photo of a drowned father and daughter at the border landed like a punch to the collective gut Wednesday, Congress was rushing to send billions of dollars [...]
Expenditures, Public -- Laws, regulations and rules, Expenditures, Public -- Political aspects, Expenditures, Public -- Cases, Border security -- Government finance, Walls -- Government finance, United States. Congress -- Political activity, Government regulation, and Company legal issue
Abstract
OAKLAND, Calif. - In the first court hearing over President Donald Trump's border wall funding plan, administration lawyers on Friday vigorously pressed their controversial argument that Congress did not in [...]
Immigration policy -- Planning, Immigration policy -- Political aspects, United States. House of Representatives -- Political activity, and Company business planning
Abstract
To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=724089947 BYLINE: MARA LIASSON HOST: ARI SHAPIRO ARI SHAPIRO: Now let's bring in NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson, who is also watching [...]
Immigration policy -- Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, United States. Congress -- Domestic policy, United States. Department of Homeland Security. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, and Democratic Party (United States) -- Political activity
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=579227889 BYLINE: SCOTT HORSLEY HOST: MARY LOUISE KELLY MARY LOUISE KELLY: I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington, where we are bracing for a [...]
Border security -- Laws, regulations and rules, Border security -- Political aspects, Illegal immigrant children -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, and Government regulation
Abstract
A lame-duck session of Congress isn't a time for creativity and new initiatives. But there is a simple bill that could pass both chambers, be signed by this president and [...]
Illegal immigrants -- Laws, regulations and rules, Border security -- Laws, regulations and rules, Border security -- Political aspects, United States. Congress -- Social policy, and Government regulation
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This editorial appears in Monday's Washington Post. - - - The hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who have grown up in this country, having been brought here by [...]
Defense information, Classified -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, and Government regulation
Abstract
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's controversial order to declassify materials associated with the federal investigation into his campaign's alleged Russia ties was validation for his closest congressional allies, who escalated [...]
Illegal immigrant children -- Laws, regulations and rules, Illegal immigrant children -- Social aspects, Immigration policy -- Political aspects, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, and Government regulation
Abstract
To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=548576379 BYLINE: SCOTT DETROW HOST: MARY LOUISE KELLY MARY LOUISE KELLY: We are waiting this morning on an announcement on the fate of [...]
Immigration policy -- Political aspects, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, and United States. Congress -- Social policy
Abstract
One of the greatest ironies of President Donald Trump's headline-sucking tweets attacking a cable TV news host is that on the very same day, Congress was voting on a bill [...]
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Political aspects, Emigration and immigration law -- Political aspects, United States. Congress -- Social policy, and United States. Congress -- Economic policy
Abstract
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's pledge in his State of the Union address to "extend an open hand" to both parties in pursuit of an ambitious policy agenda rammed quickly [...]
Unemployment insurance -- Laws, regulations and rules, Unemployment insurance -- Planning, Wisconsin -- Social aspects, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, United States. Department of Labor -- Powers and duties, Company business planning, and Government regulation
Abstract
Wisconsin residents receiving an extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits are being asked to pay back the money if Congress enacts new legislation to replace the jobless aid created by [...]
Walls -- Laws, regulations and rules, Walls -- Political aspects, Border security -- Laws, regulations and rules, Border security -- Political aspects, Illegal immigrants -- Political aspects, Illegal immigrants -- Laws, regulations and rules, Deportation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, and Government regulation
Abstract
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump met with a bipartisan group of Congress members at the White House on Tuesday in an effort to revive stalled talks over immigration, urging lawmakers [...]
Illegal immigrants -- Political aspects, Illegal immigrants -- Laws, regulations and rules, Border security -- Political aspects, Border security -- Laws, regulations and rules, Walls -- Political aspects, Walls -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, and Government regulation
Abstract
WASHNGTON - President Donald Trump declared Tuesday he wants Congress to pass a "bill of love" to protect younger undocumented immigrants from deportation, but he reiterated his demands for a [...]
Hurricane Harvey, 2017, Disaster relief -- United States, Illegal immigrants -- Laws, regulations and rules, Storm damage, United States. Department of Homeland Security. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, and Emergency and Other Relief Services
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=548576337 BYLINE: SCOTT DETROW HOST: RACHEL MARTIN RACHEL MARTIN: Today is the deadline for President Donald Trump to decide what to do about [...]
Legislators -- Political activity, Border security -- Laws, regulations and rules, Border security -- Political aspects, Illegal immigrants -- Laws, regulations and rules, Illegal immigrants -- Political aspects, Government regulation, and Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity
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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump couldn't have handed Republicans in Congress a more politically perilous or miserable situation to deal with if he tried. Less than five months before an [...]
Illegal immigrant children -- Laws, regulations and rules, Illegal immigrant children -- Social aspects, United States. Department of Homeland Security. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Government regulation
Abstract
To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=548819221 BYLINE: CARRIE JOHNSON HOST: RACHEL MARTIN RACHEL MARTIN: The future of the 800,000 so-called DREAMers is in limbo. The Trump administration is [...]
Immigration policy -- Political aspects, United States. Department of Homeland Security. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Senate -- Social policy, Government regulation, and Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity
Abstract
Byline: Ed O'Keefe and David Nakamura WASHINGTON - The Republican-led Senate on Thursday blocked both President Donald Trump's immigration plan and a bipartisan alternative, a failure that cast doubt on [...]
Immigration policy -- Political aspects and United States. Department of Homeland Security. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals -- Political aspects
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Byline: David Nakamura and Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - Chances of an immigration deal in Congress appeared dead Thursday after the House approved a $1.3 trillion spending bill with no [...]
