Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Going on here. The president tweeted over the weekend hes willing to shut down the government if he doesnt get the money for the wall and some bigtime immigration reforms. In the process, he may force Republican Leaders, thats his own party, and candidates into a fight they dont want to have, particularly with these midterm looming. But we know it is an issue that has been at the top of the president s agenda since he launched his campaign. Something he made clear again during his weekly address. We must enforce the rules against visa fraud, illegal overstay, Illegal Entry and other Immigration Violations and crimes, and crimes they are, believe me, crimes they are. The president is calling for several things. He wants at least billions more in funding for a border wall. He wants to end the policy of catch and release, which lets Asylum Seekers live in the United States until their cases are heard. And he wants to
republicans on a local level are not touting the tax cuts because they know they re not working in their states, how dangerous is this? it is enormously dangerous. because charles and david koch and koch brothers now, because david s retired, but charles has come out and explained, you know, they re basically libertarian economic thinkers. they don t focus much on the social issues. they have a network of organizations that really educate voters about their policies and free market and charles has this really interesting idea. because as technology causes disruption of course in economies, uber s a great example of that, it causes did i rup disruption in our politics too. we re in this tumultuous time of we don t know the future of automation. wages have often been stagnant. people say because there s so much automation coming into yes. we re in that period. and david and charles koch have always said we always end up in a better place.
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