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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Could Trump’s Immigration Agenda Ever Get Through Congress?
Even groups supportive of the president’s plans have their doubts.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP House GOP Budget Plan Cuts Medicare and Social Security
The spending proposal is likely to receive pushback from Republicans wary of cutting into popular entitlement programs.
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Timothy D. Easley / AP DHS Provides Additional Foreign Worker Visas on ‘Made in America’ Week
The decision appears to conflict with the president’s often-heated rhetoric on immigration.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Trump's Incredible Shrinking Border Wall
The president said Thursday that he wouldn’t pursue sealing off the entire border as he had pledged to do on the campaign trail.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Donald Trump Jr.'s Email Exchange With Rob Goldstone
The president’s son coordinated with the music publicist last June to arrange a meeting with a “Russian attorney,” who had potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
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Eric Gay / AP Court Says Undocumented Minors Have the Right to a Bond Hearing
A three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that immigrant children held in detention are entitled to present their case before an immigration judge.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Once More Unto the Beach
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was pictured on a public beach that was among those closed over the weekend by the government shutdown.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Immigration Allies Are Growing Frustrated With Him
The president was supposed to be their champion, but he’s failed to act on some of his key campaign promises.
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Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters Trump Ditches His Promise to 'Terminate' DACA
The president had repeatedly pledged to end the Obama-era program shielding undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Trump Transition Aides Told to Save Russia Records
The team’s lawyer reportedly instructed them to preserve documents relevant to the federal inquiries into election interference.
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Alex Brandon / AP Rod Rosenstein: I Have Not Seen 'Good Cause' to Fire Robert Mueller
The deputy attorney general told lawmakers the special counsel handling the Russia investigation has “full independence.”
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Eric Gay / AP Will Texas's Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities Hurt Law Enforcement?
Some police chiefs are concerned that the legislation may harm efforts to stop crime rather than helping.
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Alex Brandon / AP Sessions's Climbdown on Sanctuary Cities
The administration backed away from its aggressive January order punishing jurisdictions that limit collaboration between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters What the Spike in Immigration Arrests Might Mean for Detention Centers
With the nation’s courts backlogged, undocumented immigrants may be detained longer than usual.
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Alex Brandon / AP 'The Press Following Senators Have Become Large and Aggressive'
The directors of the Senate Media Galleries sent a letter to bureau chiefs and editors to say that the Capitol “has reached its capacity for reporters."
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Susan Walsh / AP The Risks of Sharing Intelligence
According to recent news reports, President Trump divulged highly classified material to Russian officials, potentially endangering the U.S. relationship with the source of that information.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP FBI Director Has No Regrets About His Fateful 2016 Decision
Testifying before the Senate, James Comey said he did not regret his late October announcement that the investigation into Hillary Clinton had been reopened.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Trump Administration Sketches a Border-Fence Plan
Mick Mulvaney, the president’s budget director, told reporters Tuesday that 20-foot-tall steel fencing will replace existing cyclone fencing along the southern border.
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Mike Blake / Reuters CNN Takes on Donald Trump's 'Fake News' Label
The network declined to air an ad on the president’s first 100 days that used the term to describe the mainstream media.
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Susan Walsh / AP People Are Calling In to a New 'Criminal Alien' Hotline With Reports of Extraterrestrials
On Wednesday, the administration launched a new office to “assist victims of crimes committed by criminal aliens.” Some rang in with reports of UFOs.
