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The budget deal shows how unserious the GOP is 
about deficits in the Trump era 
President Trump, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, visits the Capitol in March for a 
lunch with the Republican caucus. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) 
BY 
HOHMANN 
with Mariana Mara 
THE BIG IDEA: Mitch McConnell told President Trump privately last 
month that no politician has ever lost an election for spending 
more money. That mind-set — caring more about the next election than 
the next generation — helps explain why the Senate majority leader and 
the president endorsed a budget deal last night, which still needs to 
pass Congress, that will raise spending limits by $320 billion while 
suspending the federal debt ceiling until after both men's 2020 
reelection fights. It also illustrates how hollow so much of the rhetoric 
from McConnell, Trump and other Republicans was during Barack 
Obama's presidency. 
Discretionary spending is growing at a faster clip under Trump 
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than Obama. The budget deficit and the national debt are growing 
at even more distressing rates, however, because the Republican 
tax cuts have reduced revenue even more starkly than the dire 
forecasts. The Trump administration estimates the deficit this fiscal 
year will top $1 trillion, up from $779 billion last year. It was $587 billion 
in 2016, Obama's last full year in office. The national debt was $19 
billion when Trump took power and surpassed $22 trillion this month. 
Even with rock-bottom interest rates, the federal government will pay out 
more than $350 billion this year to service that debt. 
If we're running these kinds of deficits when the economy is 
supposedly booming, think about how bad they'll become when a 
recession arrives and revenues inevitably shrivel. "This agreement 
is a total abdication of fiscal responsibility by Congress and the 
president," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan 
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "It may end up being the 
worst budget agreement in our nation's history, proposed at a time when 
our fiscal conditions are already precarious." 
-- There is little, if any, evidence that Trump himself personally 
cares that the federal balance sheet is drowning in red ink. 
Undoubtedly, many people who work in the White House — led by acting 
chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — want spending cuts. And these 
administration officials insist that Trump has told them he wants to make 
big cuts in 2021 if he wins a second term. But watch what the president 
does, not what his aides say. Trump also promised before he took office 
that he'd balance the budget and pay off the entire national debt by the 
end of a hypothetical second term. 
Trump, who has referred to himself as "the king of debt," drove multiple 
businesses into bankruptcy before becoming the first president in U.S. 
history with no prior governing or military experience. Earlier in his term, 
advisers presented him with a chart that projected a hockey stick spike 
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in the national debt unless major changes are made. Trump shrugged. 
"Yeah, but I won't be here," he reportedly said. 
Lately, the president has been recounting the advice he got from 
McConnell about spending money to West Wing aides. Two people 
with direct knowledge confirmed to my colleagues recently that the 
Kentucky Republican delivered that message during a private phone call 
last month. 
-- Republican leaders are quick to blame Democrats, noting that 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi negotiated the deal with Treasury Secretary 
Steven Mnuchin. They say they needed to agree to higher spending 
levels to get support in the House. That's true to some degree, of 
course, but Republicans were also on their borrowing binge when they 
had unified control of government during the first two years of the Trump 
presidency. This will forever taint Paul Ryan's legacy as speaker. 
To be sure, the Trump administration has proposed steep 
spending cuts in each of his budget blueprints, and some of the 
deficit hawks on his staff tried to insist on cuts during this most 
recent round of negotiations. "Acting budget director 
Vought 
sought last week to force Democrats to commit to $150 billion in budget 
changes in exchange for the new spending, but his demand was 
rejected. Instead, negotiators agreed to $77 billion in accounting 
changes that probably wouldn't constrain any future spending," 
Paletta and Erica Werner report in their story on the deal. "But the deal 
locked in more spending for the military, something Trump has tried to 
make a hallmark of his first 30 months as president." 
But the only thing the president has really gone to the mat for on 
Capitol Hill — triggering the longest-ever government shutdown —
was to get billions in additional spending to build his proposed 
border wall. When he couldn't get the money that way, he diverted it 
from the military construction budget — the legality of which continues to 
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be challenged in court. 
Trump on debt ceiling: 'We can never play with it' 
-- Leaders from both parties touted goodies they got as they tried 
to sell their members on the bill. "Democrats have always insisted on 
parity in increases between defense and non-defense, and we are 
pleased that our increase in non-defense budget authority exceeds the 
defense number by $10 billion over the next two years," Senate Minority 
Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a joint 
statement. "It also means Democrats secured an increase of more than 
$100 billion in funding for domestic priorities since President Trump took 
office." 
House Minority Leader 
McCarthy (R-Calif.) made a contrary claim 
as he endorsed the deal. "Given that sequestration cut defense 
spending more than non-defense, we are pleased that the agreement 
provides $20 billion more for defense than non-defense over two years," 
he said in a statement. "While this deal is not perfect, compromise is 
necessary in divided government." 
McConnell emphasized the new spending he got for Kentucky for 
military installations in his state, citing Fort Knox, Fort Campbell 
and the Blue Grass Army Depot. Missing from his statement was 
any mention of the debt or the deficit. "While the reality of divided 
government means this is not exactly the deal Republicans would have 
written on our own, it is what we need to keep building on that 
progress," he said. 
-- This new deal, assuming it passes before Congress leaves town 
for the month-long August recess, will end the Budget Control Act, 
which Obama signed into law after House Republicans pushed the 
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government to the brink of defaulting on its debt in 2011. "That law, 
once seen as the Republicans' crowning achievement in the Obama 
era, set strict spending caps, enforced with automatic spending cuts," 
the New York Times notes. "But since 2014, a succession of budget 
deals have waived those caps, and the new deal not only lifts them 
again but also allows the whole law to expire in 2021. And this time 
around, the approach of the debt limit hardly caused a ripple of 
consternation about the rising red ink." 
• "I've seen no evidence that it's even being discussed," said Sen. 
Lankford (R-Okla.). "That's the hard part for me." 
• "It's pretty clear that both houses of Congress and both parties 
have become big spenders, and Congress is no longer concerned 
about the extent of the budget deficits or the debt they add," said 
Club for Growth President 
McIntosh, a former Republican 
congressman. 
-- A few members of the House Freedom Caucus strategized last 
night about ways to tank this deal, which they see as a betrayal of 
the tea party principles that they got elected on and warn will 
"sabotage the fiscal future of our nation." Freshman Rep. Chip Roy 
(R-Tex.), who was formerly Sen. Ted Cruz's chief of staff, is circulating a 
letter around Capitol Hill offices to collect signatures before sending it to 
the White House. "You should veto this bill because it is fiscally 
irresponsible," the letter says, "indulging our national spending 
addiction." 
"Other likely backers include GOP Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, 
Cloud of Texas and Debbie Lesko of Arizona, who, like Roy, are 
members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus," Politico reports. 
"Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FLa.), a top Trump ally on Capitol Hill, is also 
expected to sign on to the letter." 
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Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman 
who lost reelection last year after Trump endorsed his primary 
challenger, suggested last week that the growing debt and government 
spending would be a centerpiece of the long-shot primary challenge that 
he's mulling against Trump. 
-- Other fiscal conservatives who don't need to worry about 
running for reelection lamented the direction that the GOP has 
taken under his stewardship. "There are no small government 
conservatives left in Washington," tweeted Joe Scarborough, who 
represented the Florida Panhandle in Congress as a Republican from 
1995 to 2001 and now hosts a morning show on MSNBC. "If Newt 
Gingrich agreed to this deal, we would have run him out of DC on the 
same day. We balanced the budget four years in a row. These Big 
Government Republicans are bankrupting us." 
Conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson from Georgia noted that his 
party demands fiscal discipline only when Democrats are in the White 
House. "This is a bad deal that puts us many steps closer to 
bankruptcy," he tweeted. "No leaders in Washington want to restore any 
fiscal sanity. Why is it always only a [Democrat] in the White House and 
[Republicans] in Congress that get us fiscal sanity, i.e. [Bill] Clinton 
balanced budget & sequestration under Obama?" 
-- Social media buzzed about the deal: Nancy Pelosi was spotted 
negotiating while sitting on a delayed flight: 
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An editor for the Bulwark, a conservative publication, noted how Trump 
has changed his tune entirely on the debt ceiling: 
Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) criticized the deal by sharing a G IF of the 
Joker lighting a pile of money on fire from the 2008 Batman movie "The 
Dark Knight." In the scene, the Joker says: "All you care about is money. 
This town deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm going to give it to 
them." 
Cruz, who has already abandoned in the Trump era several of what he 
used to call his core principles, refused to talk about the deal when 
approached by CNN: 
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WHILE YOU WERE IN YOUR MORNING MEETINGS: 
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who is trying to kick millions off food stamps, arrives at the White House 
in May to watch Trump announce billions in bailouts for farmers in red states who are suffering because of 
the president's trade wars. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) 
-- The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed new rules this 
morning to limit access to food stamps for households with 
savings and other assets, a measure that officials said would cut 
benefits to about 3 million people. IM
 Reiley reports: "In a 
telephone call with reporters, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny 
Perdue and Acting Deputy Under Secretary Brandon Lipps said the 
proposed new rules for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance 
Program (SNAP) were aimed at ending automatic eligibility for those 
who were already receiving federal and state assistance. Forty-three 
states now grant automatic eligibility to low-income people already 
receiving other government benefits, without undergoing income or 
asset tests. Lipps said the proposal would result in an annual budgetary 
savings of $2.5 billion." 
Putting the numbers in perspective: "Current rules give states latitude 
to raise SNAP income eligibility limits so that low-income families with 
housing and child care costs that consume a sizable share of their 
income can continue to receive help affording adequate food. This 
option also allows states to adopt less restrictive asset tests so that 
families, seniors and people with a disability can have modest savings 
or own their own home without losing SNAP benefits. ... To be eligible 
for SNAP, a household's gross income must be below 130 percent of 
the federal poverty line. In 2019, that works out to $32,640 a year for a 
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family of four. Democrats pointed out that the benefit amounts to $1.40 
per person per meal." 
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), the top Democrat on the Senate 
Agriculture Committee, says Trump is making an end run around 
Congress, which blocked his earlier proposals to slash food 
stamps in the farm bill. "This rule would take food away from families, 
prevent children from getting school meals, and make it harder for 
states to administer food assistance," she said. 
Former vice president Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in an electrical workers union hall in Las 
Vegas. (John Locher/AP) 
-- Another huge flip-flop: After spending half a century advocating 
for capital punishment, former vice president Joe Biden this 
morning proposed abolishing the death penalty at the federal 
level and offering incentives for states to follow suit. It's one 
of several ideas in a new criminal justice plan that are at odds 
with the 1994 crime bill he quarterbacked. "Convicted criminals who 
would face execution under current law would instead be sentenced to 
life in prison without the possibility of parole," Sean Sullivan reports. 
"Biden's plan also would decriminalize marijuana and expunge past 
cannabis-related convictions; end the disparity between sentences for 
powder and crack cocaine; and do away with all incarceration for drug 
use alone. ... Biden's proposal also calls for ending cash bail and 
terminating the federal government's use of private prisons. ... The plan 
would invest $1 billion annually in juvenile justice reform. It also would 
seek to give states incentives to stop incarcerating minors." 
-- In a profile for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Biden says 
that the general election will be a "referendum" on Trump and his 
fitness for office. MI
 Steinberaer reports: "I asked if he thought he 
would have beaten Trump in 2016. 'I don't know,' he said. 'Everybody 
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says that. But look, I don't know. You've got to be in the game. I thought 
Hillary would have made a good president.' ... Biden prefers to talk 
about next year's face-off with Trump — 'a battle for the soul of America' 
— in place of the ongoing fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. 
... When I caught up with him in New Hampshire this month, he 
dismissed claims of a rift between hard-line progressives and less 
strident ones as an 'artificial division.' He also spoke admiringly of [Rep. 
Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez, describing her as 'smart as the devil.-
Boris 
speaks in London. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg News) 
-- Boris 
is the next British prime minister. William Booth 
and Karla 
report from London: "The bombastic, Latin-quoting, 
Oxford classicist with the mop of intentionally mussed yellow hair, who 
made his name as an over-the-top journalist in Brussels and then as 
London mayor and galvanized the successful Brexit campaign in 2016, 
will likely walk through the black enameled door of 10 Downing Street 
on Wednesday — fulfilling what his biographers describe as his 
relentless 'blond ambition' to follow his hero, Winston Churchill, into the 
top spot. ... On Wednesday, Theresa May will deliver her last remarks 
at a question-and-answer session in the House of Commons and then 
she will travel to Buckingham Palace to resign. 
will follow her to 
the palace, where Queen Elizabeth II will name him prime minister and 
ask him to form a new government. 
will be 14th prime minister 
during the queen's long reign. ... 
"Writing in Monday's Telegraph, 
said, `it is time this 
country recovered some its can-do spirit.' He said that if the 
Americans could land men on the moon 50 years ago using hand-sewn 
bits of computer code, then 21st century Britain could imagine a way to 
provide for frictionless trade across the Northern Irish border, which has 
been one of the stumbling blocks of the Brexit deal. 'Things are really 
about to kick off again in a massive way because the irresistible force of 
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Boris 
ego is about to meet the immovable force of the House 
of Commons,' said Rob Ford, a politics professor at the University of 
Manchester." 
Black Hawk helicopters carry U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Rahmat Gul/AP) 
GET SMART FAST: 
1. The Army revealed that it is conducting a secret mission that 
requires Black Hawk helicopters to fly around the D.C. area. The 
classified operation was disclosed when the Pentagon asked 
Congress for approval to shift funds to provide more aircraft 
maintenance. (Bloomberg News) 
2. As homophobic and transphobic sentiments 
proliferate under Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, LGBT 
people are taking personal defense into their own hands. Many 
members of the LGBT community are joining self-defense courses 
because they don't feel as safe as they did in the past. (Terrence 
McCoy) 
3. Thousands of California women and teenagers seeking free 
or discounted reproductive health services through a federal 
program could find themselves in clinics that focus on 
abstinence and natural family planning as methods of birth 
control. Operated by the California-based Obria Group, the centers 
encourage young clients to use online apps developed with funding 
from religious conservatives. Some of these centers participating in 
the federal family planning program, known as Title X, also offer 
"abortion pill reversal," which experts say is not supported by 
scientific research. (Ariana Eunjung Cha) 
4. Centrist Democrats are worried that Medicare-for-all will 
imperil their chance to keep control of the House. The current 
debate over the health-care proposal that's playing out in the 2020 
field shows how tricky it is to find a balance between exciting voters 
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and reassuring them. (Sean Sullivan and Emily Davies) 
5. Swimmer Katie Ledecky withdrew from two races at the FINA 
world championship, citing unspecified medical issues. The 
announcement that the Olympic gold medalist, who is now studying 
at Stanford, was pulling out of the race came 90 minutes before she 
was scheduled to hit the pool. (Rick Maese) 
6. Hong Kong police have faced protester anger for weeks. But 
some officers would rather be on the other side of the picket 
fence. Once respected as "Asia's Finest," members of the Hong 
Kong Police Force are thinking of quitting after being caught 
between the government's pro-Beijing stance and the fury of the 
people they swore to protect. (Shibani Mahtani and Tiffany Lianq) 
7. The Vatican appointed a new bishop to lead a West Virginia 
diocese rocked by allegations of sexual harassment and 
financial abuse under its previous bishop. Bishop Mark Brennan 
will take over the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston 10 months after 
Bishop 
Bransfield retired in the face of serious allegations of 
wrongdoing. (Chico Harlan) 
8. A woman bled to death in Utah after her family was told that 
her open-heart surgery was a success. The 62-year-old patient, 
who was getting a metal heart device removed, was in "severe 
distress" after the surgery because surgeons failed to notice that the 
blood that was being pumped into her body was flowing directly into 
the operating table's trash, according to a new lawsuit brought 
against St. Mark's Hospital. ( 
Bella) 
9. Peak fire season in California is near, and the Department of 
the Interior is short hundreds of firefighters. The agency has 
about 500 fewer firefighters available than expected. (LA Times) 
10. Chris Kraft, the aeronautical engineer widely considered 
the godfather of NASA's Mission Control, died at 95. His death 
came just two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon 
landing. (Eryn Brown) 
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Vice President Pence speaks before the unveiling of Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit at the 
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. (Andrew Harnik/AP) 
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN AND WOMEN: 
1. Remember when Vice President Pence abruptly canceled a 
trip to New Hampshire earlier this month? He reportedly did so 
to avoid shaking hands with an alleged interstate drug dealer. 
Pence was set to visit an opioid addiction treatment center in New 
Hampshire, where Jeff Hatch — a man under investigation for 
moving more than $100,000 of fentanyl — worked. Hatch, a former 
player for the New York Giants, agreed last week to a plea deal that 
could put him behind bars for up to four years. (Politico)
2. Judy Shelton, whom Trump intends to nominate for the 
Federal Reserve Board, is calling for a massive interest-rate cut 
at the Fed's July meeting. While Wall Street traders are 
anticipating a 25-basis-point cut, Shelton is publicly pushing for a 50-
basis-point cut. (Heather Long) 
3. Kelly Craft, Trump's nominee to be U.N. ambassador and the 
wife of a billionaire coal magnate, spent more than half of her 
days as ambassador to Canada outside of Canada. During her 
confirmation hearing, she attributed much of her absence to the 
demands of negotiating the new North American free-trade pact. But 
Senate investigators discovered Craft spent a significant amount of 
time in places around the United States where she has homes. 
(Politico)
4. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other members of her 
family, heirs to the Amway fortune, have seen their gross 
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incomes rise massively in the wake of the Trump tax cuts, 
according to her latest financial disclosure report. (CNBC)
5. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is prone to falling asleep 
during meetings. The 81-year-old secretary, who has for months 
endured whispers that he is on the outs, spends much of his time at 
the White House to try to curry Trump's favor, leaving the 
department adrift. There's also constant infighting among top 
officials and sudden departures of senior staffers without 
explanation. (Politico)
6. Former White House press secretary 
Sanders showed 
up at a retreat of the Republican Governors Association, fueling 
rumors that she's preparing to run for governor of 
Arkansas. (Politico)
7. Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said that the 
expanded investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein could 
"implicate a lot of people." "I can't tell you who, but it's not going 
to end up with just Jeffrey Epstein," said the former New York 
mayor. "Maybe some were innocent — maybe some weren't, but I 
think they're going to investigate everybody." (The Hill) 
Central American migrants are detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. (Henrika 
Martinez/AFP) 
THE IMMIGRATION WARS: 
-- Bypassing immigration judges, the Trump administration is 
significantly expanding its power to quickly deport undocumented 
immigrants who entered the country illegally within the past two 
years. Maria Sacchetti reports: "Officials are calling the new strategy, 
which will take effect immediately, a 'necessary response' to the influx of 
Central Americans and others at the southern border. It will allow 
immigration authorities to quickly remove immigrants from anywhere 
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they encounter them across the United States, and they expect the 
approach will help alleviate the nation's immigration-court backlog and 
free up space in Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails. ... 
Immigrants apprehended in Iowa, Nebraska or other inland states would 
have to prove to immigration officials that they have been in the United 
States continuously for the past two years, or they could end up in an 
immigration jail facing quick deportation. And it could be relatively low-
level immigration officers — not officers of a court — making the 
decisions." 
-- An 18-year-old U.S. citizen has been in Border Patrol detention 
for three weeks in Dallas. His family fears he may be deported. The 
Dallas Morning News's Obed Manuel reports: The teen, Francisco Erwin 
Galicia, was detained at a checkpoint while traveling with his 17-year-old 
brother, Marlon Galicia, who lacks legal status. Marlon signed a 
voluntary deportation form and was sent to Mexico, but Francisco, who 
was born in Texas, is still in detention with little access to a phone. "The 
ICE detainee locator system shows Francisco is being held at the South 
Texas Detention Facility in Pearsall and lists him as being born in 
Mexico. Sanjuana Galicia, Francisco's mother, said she lived in Dallas 
from 1998-2001 and moved to South Texas after his birth. 'I need my 
son back,' she said. 'I just want to prove to them that he is a citizen. 
He's not a criminal or anything bad. He's a good kid.-
-- A 17-year-old Guatemalan boy, Abner, described 11 days of 
hunger, confusion and thirst at a Border Patrol station in Yuma, 
Ariz. NBC News's Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez report: "He describes 
them as filled with hunger and thirst, extreme temperatures and fear of 
the guards manning the facility. They refused to give him food when he 
asked, mocked him if he asked what time it was, and, on one occasion, 
punched another boy in the stomach, Abner said. 'With a punch they 
knocked the wind out of him ... But I don't know why,' Abner said, 
describing what he said happened to the 16-year-old. Abner said he and 
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his cellmates were only fed twice a day, leading him to become very 
hungry. ... Abner said he lost track of whether it was day or night 
because the lights were always on in his cell and they were yelled at for 
going near the windows." 
-- In Tennessee, ICE agents attempted to arrest a man after he 
entered his van with his son. But their neighbors formed a human 
chain to allow them to get home. The neighbors, over four hours, 
brought water and food to the man as he and his son sat in the van, but 
eventually they created a chain that allowed the father and son to get 
home without being stopped by the federal agents, who had an 
administrative warrant, which doesn't allow them to forcibly remove 
someone from their home or vehicle. (WTVF)
-- Montgomery County in Maryland just passed the region's 
toughest ban against cooperation with ICE agents. Rebecca Tan 
reports: "Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich (D) on Monday 
signed the Promoting Community Trust Executive Order, prohibiting all 
executive-branch departments from, among other things, using local 
government resources to assist federal agents in civil immigration 
investigations. That means they cannot allow [ICE] officers into 
nonpublic spaces in government buildings or give them access to 
individuals in county government custody — unless they are in 
possession of a court order or criminal warrant." 
-- Another side effect of Trump's deportation threats: Immigrants 
are avoiding reproductive health care because they fear 
encountering immigration authorities. Vox's Anna North reports: "Dr. 
Anjani Kolahi, a family medicine physician and fellow with the group 
Physicians for Reproductive Health, works with a federally qualified 
health center in Southern California that provides affordable care 
regardless of immigration status. But, she told Vox, 'patients are not 
coming for care.' She's seen patients with cancer who only come to the 
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doctor after experiencing significant weight loss. 'They know that they're 
very sick, but they're so concerned about deportation that they will be 
scared to come into the hospital,' Kolahi said. In an environment where 
people are afraid to go to the doctor even when they're desperately ill, 
routine screenings for breast and cervical cancer can fall by the 
wayside." 
-- A new report from the Center for American Progress — the left-
wing think tank — warns that the Democratic Party is losing the 
immigration messaging war to Trump. The report suggests 
Democrats' decision to cede the "rule of law" ground to Republicans 
"creates 'the false dichotomy of America as either a nation of immigrants 
or a nation of laws'—making the party and its candidates appear soft on 
enforcement, and potentially weakening future attempts for 
humanitarian-focused immigration reform. In doing so, writes Tom 
Jawetz, vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American 
Progress, supporters of humane immigration policy 'have ceded 
powerful rhetorical ground to immigration restrictionists, who are happy 
to masquerade as the sole defenders of America as a nation of 
laws.'" (Daily Beast) 
7 questions Mueller did not answer in his report 
THERE'S STILL A BEAR IN THE WOODS: 
-- The Justice Department told Bob Mueller not to answer a wide 
variety of questions about his Russia investigation when he 
testifies before lawmakers on Wednesday. Devlin Barrett and Matt 
Zapotosky report: "Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley 
Weinsheimer said in Monday's letter that he was responding to a 
request earlier this month from Mueller for guidance on how to handle 
questions 'concerning privilege or other legal bars applicable to potential 
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