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There were also strong increases in education (23.6%), clothing and footwear (10.9%) and housing, water, electricity and gas (7.7%).\\n\\nThis same Wednesday, thousands of protesters marched to the government house to demand jobs from President Alberto Fern\\u00e1ndez and greater assistance from the State.\\n\\n\\u201cI see things very badly, the economy is getting out of hand for this government,\\u201d said Mario Almada, a 60-year-old bricklayer whose biggest concern is that \\u201cthe money is not enough to buy food.\\u201d\\n\\nThe disruption of war\\n\\nThe inflationary jump had been anticipated by the Minister of Economy, Mart\\u00edn Guzm\\u00e1n, who this week indicated that the rate would be above 6% per month.\\n\\nThe minister stressed that \\u201cthe world is experiencing the worst inflationary process in decades. What is happening with the war (in Ukraine) is a very strong disruption in the entire production chain\\u201d.\\n\\nBut he at the same time maintained that he needs more political support for his economic plans to take effect, at a time when the ruling coalition is divided by the agreement signed a few weeks ago with the International Monetary Fund.\\n\\n\\u201cInflation is attacked with macroeconomic policy, and two issues are needed here: one is an economic program. That already exists today. But on the other hand, political support is needed, because the economy does not function in a vacuum. If politics is messy, it\\u2019s much more difficult to achieve anything,\\u201d Guzm\\u00e1n said in a television interview.\\n\\nArgentina agreed with the IMF on a credit program of extended facilities for 44,000 million dollars that contemplates a significant reduction in the fiscal deficit, from 3% of GDP in 2021 to 0.9% in 2024, and projected for this year an inflation of between 38 % and 48%.\\n\\nThat agreement was approved by the Argentine parliament, although a sector of the ruling Frente de Todos coalition close to Vice President Cristina Kirchner voted against it.\\n\\nThe economist V\\u00edctor Beker, director of the Center for the Study of the New Economy of the private University of Belgrano, attributed the rise in inflation to the impact of the increases that were planned in energy and education, but also to the effect that \\u201cthe increase in the prices of commodities (raw materials), due to the war in Ukraine\\u201d.\\n\\n\\u201cAs if this were not enough, the announcement by President Alberto Fern\\u00e1ndez about a \\u2018war against inflation\\u2019 was added. This generated preventive price markings, for fear of freezing them\\u201d, he added.\\n\\nInterest rate\\n\\nIn this framework, the Central Bank (BCRA) raised this Wednesday the reference interest rate by 250 basis points, going from 44.5% to 47% per year in nominal terms of the Liquidity Letters (Leliq) that thus grant a effective yield of 58.7%, according to a statement from the monetary authority.\\n\\n\\u201cThe BCRA, in coordination with the government, will use all its tools to help moderate the effects of the commodity shock on inflation,\\u201d the bank said in a statement, according to which \\u201cinflation is expected to begin to slow gradually as from April and May.\\n\\nSeeking to offset the increases, the government this week renewed a price agreement plan for basic products, which has existed since 2013, and created a stabilization fund for the domestic price of wheat flour.\\n\\nAlready in February, the government had increased the aid received by some 2.4 million beneficiaries for the purchase of food by 50%, taking it to about 6,000 pesos (50 dollars) per month per person.\\n\\nArgentina experiences a reactivation of the economy with 10.3% growth in 2021 after more than two years of recession, but that figure is overshadowed by high inflation that erodes purchasing power, and by poverty that reaches 37 % of the population.\\n\\nAbout The Author\", \"summery_article\": \"Annualized inflation reached 55.1% in March, one of the highest in the world, according to the state Statistics Institute on Wednesday.\\nThere were also strong increases in education (23.6%), clothing and footwear (10.9%) and housing, water, electricity and gas (7.7%).\\nWhat is happening with the war (in Ukraine) is a very strong disruption in the entire production chain\\u201d.\\n\\u201cInflation is attacked with macroeconomic policy, and two issues are needed here: one is an economic program.\\n\\u201cAs if this were not enough, the announcement by President Alberto Fern\\u00e1ndez about a \\u2018war against inflation\\u2019 was added.\", \"image_legend\": \"Pv. 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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has described it as \\u201cout of the question.\\u201d\\n\\nSeveral diplomats say committing to a deadline is unfeasible. But also concede that rejecting a date embedded in a prospective US-brokered trade deal is politically untenable.\\n\\nIn a bid to square the circle, the EU executive is now actively working on proposals to overhaul the enlargement process and make Ukraine\\u2019s swift accession possible, EU officials and diplomats with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed to Euronews.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nSpeaking from Tallinn on Friday morning, the EU\\u2019s enlargement chief Marta Kos summarised the pressing challenge facing her executive.\\n\\n\\u201cWe face a growing tension between the time which is needed to apply a credible, merits-based approach and growing pressure from external players on our candidates \\u2013 pressure intended to raise the political cost of moving forward on their EU path,\\u201d Kos said, adding that the current enlargement model is \\u201cincreasingly unfit\\u201d to match the geopolitical reality.\\n\\n\\u201cIn short, our enlargement model requires time, stability and gradual reform. But today\\u2019s geopolitical environment is unstable and often coercive,\\u201d she added, later cautioning that the new \\u201cmodels\\u201d under consideration should always depart from the same \\u201cbaseline\\u201d: that \\u201cfull membership comes only after full reforms.\\u201d\\n\\nAccession 'in reverse'\\n\\nOne of the ideas on the table, officials say, is reversing the entire sequence by giving Ukraine immediate EU member or affiliate status but not allowing it to fully benefit from the EU budget or single market until it completes the necessary economic, legal and social reforms.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nOne EU official familiar with the discussions said that, under such a plan, as many as seven other candidate countries could get member status along with Ukraine \\u2013 acknowledging that such a move could radically change how the EU works.\\n\\nCandidate countries are currently at different stages on their path to becoming EU-ready, with Montenegro and Albania considered most advanced. The plan could mean a multi-tier European Union wildly at odds with the current system.\\n\\nIt also remains unclear what legal workaround the EU executive could explore to make the swift integration happen. For a country to be considered an EU member, a special accession treaty with the fine-print of membership conditions needs to be ratified by all of the EU\\u2019s 27 national parliaments.\\n\\nEnsuring the backing of all 27 member states is a fraught political task, not least because of Hungary\\u2019s deep-rooted opposition to Ukraine\\u2019s accession. Each step of the accession process currently requires the unanimous backing of all members, meaning Budapest is currently single-handedly holding back Ukraine\\u2019s progress.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nPrime Minister Viktor Orb\\u00e1n, who has previously cited corruption and the rights of the Hungarian minority and Ukraine to justify his opposition, said on Thursday that Ukraine\\u2019s accession in 2027 is \\u201cnot up for debate\\u201d, insisting Hungary would not \\u201cfinance, arm, or legitimise a threat to its own security.\\u201d\\n\\nThe debate is happening in parallel with a broader re-calibration of how the EU works, with leaders agreeing on Thursday during talks on the economy that the bloc may need to abandon its deep-rooted tradition of moving as a bloc of 27 to establish smaller groups of countries that embrace deeper reforms.\\n\\nIt\\u2019s what Belgian premier Bart de Wever recently described as the \\u201cEuropean Onion\\u201d \\u2013 a bloc that consists of a core and several outer layers, with countries who embrace deep integration benefitting most from membership.\\n\\nAccelerating reforms, tackling \\u2018Trojan horses\\u2019\\n\\nOfficials are also clinging onto the principle that fully-fledged membership is only possible once candidates are fully aligned with the EU\\u2019s democratic rules and economic standards.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nA functioning democracy, an independent judiciary and anti-graft measures are often cited as the non-negotiable factors needed for candidates to benefit from EU membership.\\n\\nThe Commission has drawn up a 10-point plan to accelerate Kyiv\\u2019s reforms, even though the process is officially stalled by Hungary\\u2019s veto on the talks. It means Ukraine is informally proceeding with the reforms it\\u2019s expected to implement with support from the Commission, allowing technical negotiations to continue despite Budapest's entrenched opposition.\\n\\nThe process is referred to as \\u201cfrontloading\\u201d, in the hopes that when Budapest eventually lifts its veto, Ukraine will have already ticked off many of the milestones and its integration can be swiftly finalised.\\n\\nThe plan places an emphasis on the fight against corruption, considered a priority after the Ukrainian government tabled, and then withdrew, a new law undermining the independence of two anti-corruption agencies, NABU and SAPO, over the summer, sparking a sharp rebuke from the EU executive.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nThe prospect of reforming the EU\\u2019s enlargement rules to accommodate Ukraine also offers the possibility for the bloc to introduce new rules to ensure new members don\\u2019t drift away from EU standards and rules once they have become full members.\\n\\n\\u201cI plead that the next Accession Treaties should contain stronger safeguards against backsliding on commitments made during the accession negotiations,\\u201d EU enlargement chief Marta Kos said on Friday, adding that Montenegro\\u2019s treaty should be the first to contain new safeguards.\\n\\nExperts say that while Croatia\\u2019s 2013 accession treaty did include certain safeguard clauses to protect its economic transition, the next treaties should include specific measures to prevent rule-of-law and governance failures.\\n\\n\\u201cIf new members respect the rules, they will not even notice those safeguards,\\u201d Kos added, describing it as an \\u201cinsurance policy.\\u201d\\n\\nThe EU currently has the possibility to suspend certain members\\u2019 rights, including voting rights, in response to backsliding on the rule of law and democracy. 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They have demanded better identification for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal law enforcement officers, a new code of conduct for those agencies and more use of judicial warrants, among other requests.\\n\\nUnlike the record 43-day shutdown last fall, the closures will be narrowly confined, as only agencies under the DHS umbrella \\u2014 like Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection \\u2014 will be affected. Still, depending on how long the shutdown lasts, some federal workers could begin to miss paychecks and services like airport screening could suffer if the shutdown drags on for weeks.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nThe latest:\\n\\nHouse Democrats call for Justice Department to change Epstein file review process\\n\\nTop Democrats overseeing the review of the Department of Justice\\u2019s case files on Jeffrey Epstein want a meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi after it was discovered that her staff was tracking the search histories of lawmakers while they reviewed the files.\\n\\nIn a letter to Bondi, Reps. Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, say that the Justice Department \\u201cis spying on Members of Congress. Stop now and give us meaningful access to the fully unredacted Epstein files.\\u201d\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nThe lawmakers say that Bondi\\u2019s actions were \\u201ca flagrant assault on congressional oversight\\u201d and demand that she develop a new process for them to review the files, including giving them access at the Capitol and allowing committee staff to review files.\\n\\nAOC says U.S. should reconsider unconditional aid to Israel\\n\\nSpeaking on a panel at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Rep. 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Bragg, North Carolina, and after he confirmed earlier in the day that he\\u2019s deploying a second aircraft carrier group to the Mideast for potential military action against Iran.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nTrump said earlier that the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world\\u2019s largest aircraft carrier, is being sent from the Caribbean Sea to the Mideast to join other warships and military assets the U.S. has built up in the region.\\n\\nHouse leader says \\u2018increasingly likely\\u2019 shutdown at midnight\\n\\n\\u201cWhy?\\u201d asked Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, standing at an almost empty Capitol after Congress left for a 10-day recess. \\u201cBecause Donald Trump and Republicans have decided that they have zero interest in getting ICE under control.\\u201d\\n\\nThe Democrats are demanding restraints on immigration enforcement operations and preparing a response to the latest offer from the White House. 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The bulk of the employees at other Homeland Security divisions \\u2014 including the Transportation Security Agency and FEMA \\u2014 are expected to remain on the job as essential employees, though they could miss paychecks.\\n\\nJeffries points out that for Trump\\u2019s deportation operations, DHS has what he called a massive \\u201cslush fund,\\u201d including $75 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, under the GOP\\u2019s big tax breaks bill that was signed into law\\n\\nFeds investigating whether 2 ICE officers lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nICE Director Todd Lyons said Friday that his agency had opened a joint probe with the Justice Department after video evidence revealed \\u201csworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements\\u201d about the shooting of a Venezuelan man last month.\\n\\nThe announcement came as a federal judge ordered all charges dropped against Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who was shot in the leg by an immigration officer, as well as another Venezuelan man, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna.\\n\\nThe officers, who were not named, have been placed on administrative leave pending the completion of an internal investigation, he said.\\n\\n\\u201cLying under oath is a serious federal offense,\\u201d said Lyons, adding that the U.S. attorney\\u2019s office is actively investigating.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\n\\u25b6 Read more\\n\\nNoem advocates for GOP elections bill\\n\\nThe Homeland Security secretary pitched the Republican voting and elections bill that passed the U.S. House earlier this week.\\n\\nThe legislation would require documented proof of citizenship to register to vote and impose a photo ID requirement to cast a ballot, among other election changes.\\n\\nNoem called it an opportunity \\u201cto show that we\\u2019re serious about securing our elections.\\u201d\\n\\nShe reiterated the Republican talking point that the bill was needed to prevent noncitizens from deciding elections. Noncitizen voting has been shown to be rare and not occurring in any coordinated way.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAsked if she had any examples of noncitizens voting in Arizona, Noem said she presumed it had happened but couldn\\u2019t point to one.\\n\\nDemocrats and other critics say the so-called SAVE America Act, if it becomes law, could disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens who don\\u2019t have ready access to the documents that would prove their citizenship. The bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where it does not appear to have the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster rules.\\n\\nNoem: \\u2018I am still in charge\\u2019 of DHS\\n\\nNoem made that statement during a press conference near Phoenix, where she was supposed to discuss election security. Instead, as congressional funding for her agency stalled and it ended its controversial immigration sweep in Minnesota, a reporter asked Noem if she still ran the department.\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\nAdvertisement Advertisement\\n\\n\\u201cI am still in charge of the Department of Homeland Security,\\u201d Noem replied, moving on to additional questions about elections.\\n\\nNoem has come in for scathing criticism from not only Democrats, but some Republicans, after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens protesting the Minnesota operation and Noem seemed to misstate the facts of the cases in the initial hours.\\n\\nTrump refers to the \\u2018discombobulator\\u2019 used in Venezuela\\n\\nRecounting the January military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicol\\u00e1s Maduro, Trump once again referred to the \\u201cdiscombobulator,\\u201d a secret U.S. weapon he said was used in the operation.\\n\\n\\u201cThe Russian equipment didn\\u2019t work, the Chinese equipment didn\\u2019t work,\\u201d Trump told troops at Fort Bragg, Friday. \\u201cEveryone\\u2019s trying to figure out why it didn\\u2019t work. Someday you\\u2019re going to find out.\\u201d\\n\\nThe president has previously hinted that the military used \\u201ca certain expertise\\u201d to turn off power in Caracas for the operation but has not provided details. It\\u2019s unclear whether he has been referring to a single weapon or several military capabilities.\\n\\nTrump jokes that he might retire to the area around Fort Bragg\\n\\nThe president was up for a bit of joshing in a speech to military families at Fort Bragg in North Carolina \\u2014 though it wasn\\u2019t quite clear how his jokes landed.\\n\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s a great area, like I\\u2019m thinking about moving here some day, maybe,\\u201d Trump said, asking his wife, Melania, if she would like to live at Fort Bragg near the city of Fayetteville, which has the 143rd largest metro area population in the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.\\n\\nTrump also joked that M1 Abrams battle tanks was named after Stacey Abrams, the Democratic politician from Georgia who ran for governor in 2018 and 2022.\\n\\nThe tank, in fact, is named for Gen. 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A source familiar with the situation told AP that the laser was deployed without coordinating with the FAA,\\n\\nNoem seemed to acknowledge the chaos the event caused.\\n\\n\\u201cThis was a joint agency task force mission that was undertaken and we\\u2019re continuing to work on the communication through that,\\u201d Noem said during an Arizona event.\\n\\nThe abrupt shutdown led to confusion in the city of 700,000 on the Mexican border.\\n\\nTrump administration ends temporary status for Yemen\\n\\nThe policy had allowed more than 1,300 nationals of Yemen to live and work in the U.S. for more than a decade.\\n\\nThe decision announced Friday by the Department of Homeland Security comes as the White House moves to put more immigrants in the U.S. eligible for deportation. It represents another step to not only reverse the Biden administration\\u2019s expansion of TPS but to end it to countries that have long had it.\\n\\nYemen is the latest in a string of countries to lose Temporary Protection Status, including Venezuela, Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cameroon and Ethiopia.\\n\\nDuring the Biden administration, more than 1 million people were protected by TPS.\\n\\nDHS said that conditions in Yemen have improved and no longer pose a serious threat to the safety of returning Yemeni nationals. Yemen was initially designated for TPS in 2015 based on an ongoing armed conflict.\\n\\nYemen nationals in the U.S. with no other lawful status have 60 days to voluntarily leave the country after the TPS termination notice is published in the Federal Register, said DHS.\\n\\nTrump blurs politics into Fort Bragg visit, calling Whatley up to speak\\n\\nTrump\\u2019s trip to one of the largest military bases in the world by population was intended to honor members of the special forces who stormed into Venezuela last month, but U.S. campaign politics quickly came into view.\\n\\nA few minutes into his remarks, Trump called to the stage Michael Whatley, the North Carolinian who served as Republican National Committee chair during Trump\\u2019s 2024 campaign and is now seeking an open U.S. Senate seat in the state.\\n\\n\\u201cI am thrilled that he has asked me to run for Senate in North Carolina and is giving me an opportunity to represent you and to fight for you,\\u201d Whatley told the crowd, of Trump.\\n\\nNorth Carolina\\u2019s primary elections are March 3.\\n\\nTrump shows impatience with Zelenskyy again as new talks are set for Geneva\\n\\nTrump renewed his pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reach an agreement with Russia to end the nearly four-year war as the U.S. readies to hold another round of talks next week with envoys from the two countries.\\n\\n\\u201cRussia wants to make a deal and Zelenskyy is going to have to get moving, otherwise he\\u2019s going to miss a great opportunity,\\u201d Trump told reporters. \\u201cHe has to move.\\u201d\\n\\nTrump has, at times, shown impatience with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war, but has more frequently complained that Zelenskyy is standing in the way of finding an endgame to the conflict.\\n\\nThe new round of talks will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. Zelenskyy\\u2019s communications adviser, Dmytro Lytvyn, confirmed the new round of negotiations.\\n\\nTrump confirms plans to shift a second U.S. aircraft carrier group to the Mideast\\n\\nThe president told reporters he\\u2019s decided to shift a second aircraft carrier to the Mideast as he continues to press Iran to make a deal to scale back its nuclear program.\\n\\n\\u201cIn case we don\\u2019t make a deal, we\\u2019ll need it,\\u201d Trump said of his decision to make the move.\\n\\nIn his exchange with reporters, Trump added that the carrier group will \\u201cbe leaving very soon.\\u201d\\n\\nTrump floats \\u2018some ideas\\u2019 on Iraq if al-Maliki returns to power\\n\\nTrump on Friday reiterated his warnings against Iraq if its former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki returns to the job.\\n\\nAl-Maliki has been nominated by Iraq\\u2019s dominant political bloc for the premiership. Once that happened last month, Trump said in a social media post that if he\\u2019s elected, the U.S. will no longer help Iraq, arguing that al-Maliki\\u2019s last tenure led Iraq into \\u201cpoverty and total chaos.\\u201d\\n\\nTrump, in response to a question Friday, said that \\u201cwe\\u2019re looking at a prime minister.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re going to see what\\u2019s going to happen,\\u201d he told reporters. \\u201cWe\\u2019ve got some ideas on it, but in the end, everybody needs the U.S.\\u201d\\n\\nNewsom: Musk owes California policy for his private sector success\\n\\nAs the 4th largest economy in the world by itself, California markets help drive the global market away from fossil fuels, California Gov. Gavin Newsom says.\\n\\nHe said California\\u2019s \\u201cregulation in this space\\u201d helped spur innovation, including developments that have helped make Elon Musk the world\\u2019s wealthiest person.\\n\\n\\u201cTesla exists for one reason \\u2014 California\\u2019s regulatory market,\\u201d Newsom said of the EV automaker that Musk runs.\\n\\nHis argument is that such a populous state can drive the broader market with regulations on fossil fuels, tax policy and investments in infrastructure like EV charges.\\n\\nAnything California does economically, Newsom said, it does \\u201cat scale.\\u201d\\n\\nThe AP has reached out to Tesla\\u2019s corporate communications for a response.\\n\\nNewsom also said reversing climate change isn\\u2019t simply a moral issue, but an economic one.\\n\\nHe alluded to California wildfires \\u2014 exacerbated by climate change \\u2014 that have raised insurance rates and even made some properties uninsurable.\\n\\nNavy\\u2019s top officer calls extensions of aircraft carriers disruptive\\n\\nThe Navy\\u2019s top uniformed officer said last month that keeping the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier longer at sea would be \\u201chighly disruptive\\u201d and that he was \\u201ca big non-fan of extensions.\\u201d\\n\\nAdm. Daryl Caudle spoke to reporters in January ahead of a U.S. decision this week to send the world\\u2019s largest aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to the Middle East.\\n\\nCarriers are typically deployed for six or seven months. \\u201cWhen it goes past that, that disrupts lives, it disrupts things ... funerals that were planned, marriages that were planned, babies that were planned,\\u201d Caudle said last month.\\n\\nHe also noted that extending the carrier would complicate its maintenance and upkeep by throwing off the schedule of repairs, adding more wear and tear on components, and increasing the equipment that will need attention.\\n\\nCaudle told The Associated Press recently that his vision is deploying smaller, newer ships, when possible, instead of consistently turning to huge aircraft carriers.\\n\\nNewsom blasts Trump on climate policy\\n\\nCalifornia Gov. 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Harvard did not immediately comment.\\n\\nA statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi said she will \\u201ccontinue fighting to put merit over DEI across America.\\u201d\\n\\nFunding for DHS set to expire Saturday\\n\\nAnother shutdown for parts of the federal government is expected this weekend as lawmakers debate new restrictions on Trump\\u2019s immigration enforcement agenda.\\n\\nFunding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire Saturday. 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