Analysis: Mnuchin gets riled but Barr keeps his cool in pugnacious congressional appearances
Claire Grady, the acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security, was technically in line to take over from Kirstjen Nielsen, who formally vacates her office today. But she's been pushed out, too, paving the way for Kevin McAleenan, the president's preferred choice, to lead DHS in an acting capacity.
-- The Trump administration is trying to come up with a revised version of the family separation policy that could pass political muster. : “‘We’re not looking to do that now,’ the president told reporters in the Oval Office, when asked to respond to reports that the White House is planning to separate families again. ‘But it brings a lot more people to the border when you don’t do it.
-- Nielsen's allies are going into overdrive to rehabilitate her toxic public image so that she can prosper professionally post-Trump. : “Nielsen’s allies began spinning a narrative of her tenure that casts her not as an enabler of Trump’s most controversial immigration policies, but as a guardrail against even more extreme action.
-- Bowing to pressure from the Trump administration, which is trying to end affirmative action in higher education, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center agreed to stop using race when considering applicants to its medical school.: “The action is the first of its kind under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and signals the approach her agency plans to take with other schools.
The bill includes other changes to the nation’s tax collection agency such as protections from private debt collectors and millions of dollars in program assistance for low-income taxpayers. that the legislation included a provision to codify an existing arrangement preventing the IRS from creating online tax filing software to compete with private services such as TurboTax.”-- Sen.
-- Warner Bros. Pictures filed a copyright infringement complaint against Trump after he shared a 2020 campaign video that uses part of the score from the studio's 2012 film “The Dark Knight Rises.” -- Trump welcomed Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to the White House and then delivered a diatribe against a recent appeals court decision that stopped his attempt to stem the flow of migrants into the U.S. It felt particularly discordant delivered next to Sissi, a leader who has presided over an authoritarian consolidation of power in Egypt.
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