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In Budget, Trump to Ask Congress for $8.6 Billion for Border Wall
President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for the wall, officials familiar with his 2020 budget request told Reuters.
The demand is more than six times what Congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than Trump has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year.
Democrats, who oppose the wall as unnecessary and immoral, control the House, making it unlikely the president's request will pass there.
No Survivors on Crashed Ethiopian Airlines Flight, including 7 Americans
An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed a few minutes after takeoff from Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board including at least 7 Americans, the airline and government officials said.
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 left Addis Ababa bound for Nairobi, Kenya at 8:38 a.m. before losing contact with the control tower minutes later at 8:44 a.m. The crash occurred some 31 miles south of Addis Ababa.
Ethiopian Airlines posted a photo that showed its CEO standing amid the wreckage of the plane that crashed shortly after takeoff.
Ocasio-Cortez Draws Bigger Crowd than 2020 Candidates; Blasts FDR, Reagan, Capitalism, Political Moderates
“Moderate is not a stance. It's just an attitude towards life of, like, ‘meh,’” the New York Democrat said Saturday at the trendy SXSW festival in Austin, TX this weekend.
The event attracted 2020 hopefuls from both sides of the aisle but Ocasio-Cortez drew the biggest crowd by far - and hit them with some whoppers.
“We’ve become so cynical, that we view ‘meh,’ or ‘eh’ — we view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude, and we view ambition as youthful naivete when ... the greatest things we have ever accomplished as a society have been ambitious acts of visions, and the ‘meh’ is just worshipped now, for what?”
She also called FDR’s New Deal “racist,” and Reagan’s policies pitted white people against minorities "to screw over all working-class Americans.”
Cortez also contends that capitalism cannot be redeemed because it values profit over “everything else,” according to her:
“The most important thing is the concentration of capital, and it means that we prioritize profit and the accumulation of money above all else, and we seek it at any human and environmental cost… But when we talk about ideas like democratic socialism, it means putting democracy and society first, instead of capital first; it doesn’t mean that the actual concept of capitalistic society should be abolished,” she said.
House to Vote to Demand Release of Mueller Report Due to ‘Overwhelming Public Interest'
The House will send another signal to special counsel Robert Mueller that he needs to release his report on President Trump's alleged collusion with Russia.
Dem House leaders have scheduled a vote on a resolution from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. that calls for the Justice Department to release his final report to Congress.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo Politicizes Alex Trebek's Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis with Veiled Trump Attack
Alex Trebek announced this week that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cance. Panceatic cancer generally has a very low survival rate. Trebek said he plans to fight and continue working. CNN took his use of “facts” as a trivia host to take a swipe at Trump.
“Trebek is a major asset to our culture, not just to the game show. In a time of shallow beliefs and rampant truth abuse in our politics and beyond, every night he makes facts first,” he said, referring to the nightly trivia show hosted by Trebek.
The Washington Post made a similar reference in a recent op-ed: “The loss of Trebek means the loss of a zone where the truth is clear and uncontested.”
As Bill put it this week, he is a TV icon no question… prayers for him and his family.
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