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Rich Pedroncelli / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Anything to Declare?
California Governor Gavin Newsom said the state will sue President Donald Trump for declaring a national emergency over the border wall.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: So Long!
The administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, is resigning after less than two years on the job.
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Evan Vucci / AP Why Trump Isn’t Sweating a Shutdown This Time
The president says he doesn’t like Congress’s border-funding deal. But he’ll probably sign it anyway.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Tick Tock
Congress has until Friday to avoid another government shutdown.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: At His Whitaker’s End
Tensions ran high during Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Deal or Green Deal
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts unveiled an outline for an ambitious climate policy package.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times via ... Some Democrats Actually Liked What They Heard From Trump
High-profile progressives and party leadership panned the president’s calls for unity. But a group of the newest House lawmakers saw an opening.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Once More Unto the Speech
Tonight’s State of the Union will serve more as a kind of checkup on the president himself.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Biden His Time
The former vice president’s deliberations are focused on whether Democrats will support a centrist—especially one of his age.
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Julio Cortez / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Cory in the House?
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey is running for president.
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J Scott Applewhite / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Doubt of the Deal
President Trump said the lawmakers charged with reaching an agreement on border security were “wasting their time.”
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Congress Just Wants to Be Left Alone
As House and Senate lawmakers begin their border-security talks, they’ve managed to agree on at least one thing.
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Elaine Thompson / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Grande Intentions
The former Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, is thinking about running for president in 2020 as an independent.
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Lynne Sladky / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Stone Cold
A close Trump associate was indicted in the Mueller probe. Plus: The shutdown is poised to end—for now.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Shutdown Funk
Federal workers have begun applying for unemployment benefits and food stamps in the face of a full month without pay
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Republicans Bend, but Don’t Break, on the Shutdown
Despite defections from key GOP senators, the upper chamber rejected two proposals to reopen the government, injecting a new sense of desperation into stagnant negotiations.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Fate of the Union
Nancy Pelosi published a letter declining to allow the State of the Union in the House Chamber until the government reopens.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: In the Cross-Harris
California Senator Kamala Harris is positioning herself as the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who can put together the winning coalition.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump’s ‘Major’ Border Deal Is No Deal for Democrats
The president offered three-year protection for “Dreamers” and immigrants with protective status in exchange for $5.7 billion in border-wall funding. Democrats rejected it out of hand.
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Craig Ruttle / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: How’s It Cohen?
Donald Trump allegedly directed Michael Cohen, then his personal lawyer, to lie to Congress about a real-estate deal he was pursuing in Moscow during the 2016 election.
