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U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam on Friday night delivered a massive blow to President Donald Trump's plan to reallocate funds from the Defense Department to construct the highly-anticipated wall along America's southern border. Judge Gilliam, an Obama appointee, turned his previous temporary injunction into a permanent injunction, which barred the Trump administration from building the wall in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. President Trump declared a national emergency this year and redirected $6 billion from the Defense Department's various projects to build the border wall. Friday's ruling specifically blocks the administration from using $2.5 billion in military funds...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues in a private meeting Thursday that she thought she had a deal this week with her longtime ally, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer: She would ensure passage of a more liberal border funding bill in the House, and he would back her up by persuading Democratic senators to fight for it. Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, she was blindsided. Nearly all Senate Democrats voted for a Republican-backed bill that kneecapped the House and marked the most embarrassing defeat for Pelosi in the six months since Democrats took over the chamber. “Schumer destroyed all...

Full title: ‘Schumer Destroyed All Our Leverage’: WaPo Report Reveals Infighting Between House And Senate Democrats On Border Bill See also (But WaPo paywall if you have already looked at WaPo this month)‘A betrayal’: Inside the bitter rift between Pelosi and Schumer over border bill Democrats in the House and Senate are at odds with one another over the passage of a $4.5 billion emergency border funding bill backed by Senate Republicans, a Friday report from The Washington Post revealed. The fact that Senate Democrats went along with the bill “kneecapped the House and marked the most embarrassing defeat for...

The Republican-led Senate on Wednesday passed a $4.6 billion bill to address the migrant crisis at the southern border, setting up a clash with House Democrats, who have passed a different version of similar legislation. Republican Senate leaders have said they won't negotiate with House Democrats over differences in their chambers' emergency funding bills for the border, essentially daring the House to take or leave the Senate bill, which has bipartisan backing and the expected support of President Donald Trump. It's unclear whether the Senate and House can reconcile their bills before Congress breaks for a month-long recess later this...

Full Title: TSA considers using $3MILLION in loose change left in airport security screening trays to fund border operations The Transpiration Security Administration is considering using $3million loose change left behind in security screening trays to help fund border operations, if Congress does not approve President Donald Trump's $1.1billion border security funding request. The White House on May 1 asked Congress for $4.5 billion in emergency funds to address the rising number of people crossing the southwestern border with Mexico, with $1.1 billion set aside specifically for 'border operations.' ... ...A TSA spokesman said the agency was looking for volunteers...

NEW YORK — Some people have been arrested while protesting President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration outside a New York City hotel that bears his name. The NYPD wasn't immediately able to say how many people were taken into custody Friday night outside the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan