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The New York Times 1:12 am on April 17, 2021
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Biden Wavers on Restricting Refugee Entry

The Biden administration will for now maintain a historically low refugee cap. But after a widespread backlash from Democrats, the White House said it would raise refugee admissions in May.

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The New York Times 1:12 am on April 17, 2021
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President Biden Wavers on Restricting Refugee Entry

The Biden administration will for now maintain a historically low refugee cap. But after a widespread backlash from Democrats, the White House said it would raise refugee admissions in May.

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The New York Times 12:39 am on April 16, 2021
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Trump Is Gone, but Land Disputes Along Border Continue Under Biden

A Texas judge allowed the government this week to take possession of a family’s land because the Biden administration has yet to end lawsuits seeking property along the border.

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The New York Times 1:13 am on April 13, 2021
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Biden Picks Trump Critic Chris Magnus to Run Border Agency

Chris Magnus, the Tucson police chief who carried a Black Lives Matter sign at a protest, was chosen to lead Customs and Border Protection.

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The New York Times 10:53 pm on April 12, 2021
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Biden Names Chris Inglis to Be First National Cyber Director

Chris Inglis will be nominated to the new post as the president fills out his cybersecurity team and the U.S. considers responses to recent attacks.

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The New York Times 5:29 pm on April 10, 2021
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Young Migrants Crowd Shelters, Posing Test for Biden

The administration is under intensifying pressure to expand its capacity to care for as many as 35,000 unaccompanied minors, part of a wave of people crossing the border.

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The New York Times 6:30 pm on April 4, 2021
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Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism

The administration has taken a series of steps to prioritize dealing with white supremacists and militias, especially after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on April 1, 2021
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The Real Reason for the Border Crisis

No one is holding American employers to account for their willingness to hire millions of unauthorized immigrants.

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The New York Times 12:39 am on March 25, 2021
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Biden Names Harris to Work With Central America on Migration

The president gave the vice president a prominent role in the politically charged issue at a time when thousands of children are being detained in facilities along the border.

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The New York Times 10:35 pm on March 17, 2021
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Mayorkas Says ‘Undoubtedly Difficult’ Border Problems Are Being Handled

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, sparred with House Republicans on Wednesday over the surge of migrants — especially children — at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The New York Times 9:56 pm on March 17, 2021
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New Report Warns of Rising Threat of Domestic Terrorism

President Biden requested the intelligence community complete the assessment shortly after taking office, and his administration has made fighting domestic terrorism a priority.

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The New York Times 1:49 am on March 17, 2021
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Surge in Migrants Defies Easy or Quick Solutions for Biden

The administration expects more apprehensions at the border this year than at any point in the past two decades. Enacting policy to deal with the problems faces deep-rooted political and logistical challenges.

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The New York Times 11:55 pm on March 14, 2021
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On Mexico’s Border With U.S.,Desperation as Migrant Traffic Piles Up

Mexico is struggling to deal with a new wave of migrants expelled from the U.S. while even more come north hoping to cross. Shelters that were empty four months ago are now having to turn many away.

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The New York Times 8:58 pm on March 14, 2021
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Biden Administration Directs FEMA to Help Shelter Migrant Children

The agency will help provide basic care as criticism mounts over the treatment of the increasing number of young migrants who have filled detention facilities at the southwest border.

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The New York Times 3:29 pm on March 10, 2021
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Biden Grants Protections for Venezuelans to Remain in U.S.

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans can temporarily continue to live and work in the United States as the administration considers its next steps in the effort to force out Venezuela’s president.

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The New York Times 2:34 am on March 9, 2021
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President Biden Faces Challenge From Surge of Migrants at the Border

The president’s promise of a more humane policy is being tested as more unaccompanied children seek to enter the United States from Mexico.

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The New York Times 11:25 pm on February 26, 2021
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Thousands of Migrant Children Detained in Resumption of Trump-Era Policies

President Biden vowed to create a humane approach to immigration. But thousands of children who crossed the border alone are being confined in government shelters.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on February 24, 2021
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‘Climate Change’ Is Back, ‘Illegal Alien’ Is Out. New Administration Changes the Language of Government.

“The president has been clear to all of us — words matter, tone matters and civility matters,” said Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary.

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The New York Times 2:05 am on February 18, 2021
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U.S. Seizes One Million More Counterfeit N95 Masks

Criminal charges are expected in the investigation, which brought the total number of seized masks to more than 11 million, the authorities said.

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The New York Times 4:47 am on February 11, 2021
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Millions of Counterfeit N95 Masks Were Bought in 5 States, U.S. Says

Many of the masks were clever fakes, stamped with the 3M logo and shipped in boxes that read, “Made in the U.S.A.,” even though they were not made in the country or by 3M, according to federal investigators.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on February 10, 2021
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Undoing Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Will Mean Looking at the Fine Print

Hundreds of little-noticed but consequential revisions to the U.S. immigration system will remain in place unless President Biden’s team specifically looks for — and roots out — the changes.

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The New York Times 4:38 pm on February 5, 2021
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Muddled Intelligence Hampered Response to Capitol Riot

New details about what authorities anticipated on Jan. 6 highlight failures to grasp the degree of the threat from pro-Trump right-wing extremists.

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The New York Times 5:37 am on February 4, 2021
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Mexican Law Halts U.S. From Turning Back Some Migrant Families

Because of a recent law that prohibits the detention of immigrant children and families, Mexico has stopped accepting such families from South Texas.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on February 3, 2021
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Trump Loyalists Across Homeland Security Could Vex Biden’s Immigration Policies

President Biden and his new secretary of homeland security are already facing resistance from immigration agents empowered by Donald J. Trump to take their gloves off.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on February 2, 2021
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Biden’s Executive Orders: President to Sign 3 Rolling Back Trump’s Immigration Agenda

One executive order aims to reunite migrant families separated at the southern border. The others authorize a wholesale review of the former president’s immigration policies.

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The New York Times 9:18 pm on February 1, 2021
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Trump Official’s Last-Day Deal With ICE Union Ties Biden’s Hands

A whistle-blower accused Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II of an abuse of power in making sweeping concessions to pro-Trump Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

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The New York Times 8:14 pm on January 30, 2021
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How Trump’s Focus on Antifa Distracted Attention From the Far-Right Threat

Federal law enforcement shifted resources last year in response to Donald Trump’s insistence that the radical left endangered the country. Meanwhile, right-wing extremism was building ominously.

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The New York Times 2:46 am on January 28, 2021
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Extremists Emboldened by Capitol Attack Pose Rising Threat, Homeland Security Says

The warning was a notable departure for a Department of Homeland Security accused of being reluctant during the Trump administration to publish intelligence reports or public warnings about the dangers posed by extremists and white supremacist groups.

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The New York Times 6:58 pm on January 27, 2021
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The U.S. faces heightened threats from violent domestic extremists in the wake of the Capitol breach, D.H.S. says.

The attack may have encouraged domestic extremists to target elected officials and government facilities, according to a national terrorism warning.

#homeland-security-department, #storming-of-the-us-capitol-jan-2021, #terrorism

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The New York Times 3:31 pm on January 27, 2021
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Biden Team Rushes to Take Over Government, and Oust Trump Loyalists

President Biden named nearly all of his cabinet secretaries and their immediate deputies before he took office, but his real grasp on the levers of power has come several layers down.

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The New York Times 11:11 pm on January 26, 2021
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Judge Blocks 100-Day Pause on Deportation, a Blow to Biden’s Immigration Agenda

A court in Texas issued a 14-day nationwide temporary restraining order sought by the state’s attorney general that would prevent carrying out the policy, which was issued within hours of the president’s inauguration.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on January 15, 2021
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Has Trump’s Reckoning Come Too Late?

Finally the world agrees that Trump is exactly the man his fiercest critics said he was. But has the reckoning come too late?

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The New York Times 3:23 am on January 14, 2021
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Amid Riot Chaos, Some National Security Leaders Are Absent From View

The Trump administration’s response to the attack, incited by the president, has lacked broad reassurances to a country on edge.

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The New York Times 1:01 am on January 14, 2021
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F.B.I. Urges Police Chiefs Across U.S. to Be On High Alert for Threats

A joint intelligence bulletin warned that the deadly breach at the Capitol will be a “significant driver of violence” ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.

#capitol-building-washington-dc, #federal-bureau-of-investigation, #fringe-groups-and-movements, #homeland-security-department, #right-wing-extremism-and-alt-right, #storming-of-the-us-capitol-jan-2021, #united-states

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The New York Times 12:28 am on January 14, 2021
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More Arrests Made Amid New Calls for Investigation of Capitol Attack

Democratic lawmakers also demanded answers about visitors to the Capitol a day before the riot.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on January 13, 2021
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Biden to Restore Homeland Security and Cybersecurity Aides to Senior White House Posts

The two appointments illustrate how the president-elect appears determined to rebuild a White House national security team to focus on threats that critics say were ignored by President Trump.

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The New York Times 2:35 am on January 11, 2021
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How a String of Failures Led to the Capitol Siege

Poor planning among a constellation of government agencies and a restive crowd encouraged by President Trump set the stage for the unthinkable.

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The New York Times 1:08 am on January 8, 2021
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Did the Capitol Attack Break Trump’s Spell?

Either the beginning of the end for Trump, or America.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on January 2, 2021
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As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm

Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.

#amazon-com-inc, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #computers-and-the-internet, #crowdstrike-inc, #cybersecurity-and-infrastructure-security-agency, #cyberwarfare-and-defense, #defense-department, #fireeye-inc, #foreign-intelligence-service-russia, #homeland-security-department, #microsoft-corp, #nakasone-paul-m, #national-security-agency, #solarwinds, #spaulding-suzanne-e, #state-department, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-international-relations, #us-federal-government-data-breach-2020, #warner-mark-r

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The New York Times 10:57 pm on December 29, 2020
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Hit Hard by the Pandemic, Mexico’s Drug Cartels Tweaked Their Playbook

The brutal cartels, like legitimate companies, struggled as governments imposed border closures and lockdowns, and had to get creative.

#coronavirus-2019-ncov, #drug-abuse-and-traffic, #drug-cartels, #drug-enforcement-administration, #homeland-security-department, #mexico

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The New York Times 12:15 am on December 21, 2020
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Trump Administration Is Criticized Over Proposal to Split Cyberoperations Leadership

As the government grapples with a vast hack, the Pentagon is weighing whether to separate management of the National Security Agency from the United States Cyber Command.

#appointments-and-executive-changes, #classified-information-and-state-secrets, #cyberwarfare-and-defense, #defense-department, #espionage-and-intelligence-services, #homeland-security-department, #nakasone-paul-m, #national-security-agency, #presidential-election-of-2020, #russia, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-cyber-command, #united-states-defense-and-military-forces, #united-states-politics-and-government, #us-federal-government-data-breach-2020

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The New York Times 7:19 pm on December 17, 2020
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More Hacking Attacks Found

The warning, from the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm, indicated that hackers had found another line of attack to enter systems used by the government and Fortune 500 companies.

#commerce-department, #computer-security, #computers-and-the-internet, #cyberwarfare-and-defense, #defense-department, #fireeye-inc, #homeland-security-department, #microsoft-corp, #pompeo-mike, #russia, #trump-donald-j

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The New York Times 4:54 pm on December 16, 2020
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Billions Spent on U.S. Cyberdefenses Failed to Detect Giant Russian Hack

The broad Russian espionage attack on the U.S. government and private companies, underway since spring and detected only a few weeks ago, is among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.

#blumenthal-richard, #commerce-department, #cyberwarfare-and-defense, #espionage-and-intelligence-services, #homeland-security-department, #national-security-agency, #presidential-election-of-2020, #putin-vladimir-v, #russia, #state-department, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 3:11 pm on December 15, 2020
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Families at Border Present Familiar Test for Biden’s Homeland Security Pick

The Biden administration will be expected to balance demands for more lenient policies with moderates’ concerns that any show of tolerance could lead to more illegal migration.

#asylum-right-of, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #homeland-security-department, #illegal-immigration, #immigration-and-emigration, #immigration-detention, #mayorkas-alejandro, #presidential-transition-us, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 1:09 am on December 15, 2020
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Russian Hack, Undetected Since Spring, Upends Government Agencies

The Pentagon, intelligence agencies, nuclear labs and Fortune 500 companies use software that was found to have been compromised by Russian hackers. The sweep of stolen data is still being assessed.

#computer-security, #cybersecurity-and-infrastructure-security-agency, #cyberwarfare-and-defense, #defense-and-military-forces, #defense-department, #espionage-and-intelligence-services, #fireeye-inc, #homeland-security-department, #nakasone-paul-m, #national-security-agency, #russia, #solarwinds, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 11:54 pm on December 13, 2020
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Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect

In one of the most sophisticated and perhaps largest hacks in more than five years, email systems were breached at the Treasury and Commerce Departments. Other breaches are under investigation.

#classified-information-and-state-secrets, #commerce-department, #computer-security, #cyberwarfare-and-defense, #espionage-and-intelligence-services, #homeland-security-department, #presidential-election-of-2020, #russia, #treasury-department, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 10:00 am on December 3, 2020
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Cyberattacks Discovered on Vaccine Distribution Operations

IBM has found that companies and governments have been targeted by unknown attackers, prompting a warning from the Homeland Security Department.

#computer-security, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #cybersecurity-and-infrastructure-security-agency, #cyberwarfare-and-defense, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #gavi-the-vaccine-alliance, #homeland-security-department, #international-business-machines-corporation, #pfizer-inc, #vaccination-and-immunization

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The New York Times 11:02 pm on December 2, 2020
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Women in ‘Birth Tourism’ Ring Had 119 Babies on Long Island, Officials Say

Six people were charged in federal court with bilking Medicaid of $2.1 million and taking $750,000 from pregnant women in Turkey seeking to give birth in the United States.

#citizenship-and-naturalization, #frauds-and-swindling, #homeland-security-department, #immigration-and-emigration, #pregnancy-and-childbirth, #turkish-americans, #visas

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The New York Times 10:00 am on November 28, 2020
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Top Contenders for Biden’s Cabinet Draw Fire From All Sides

Lists of names of those the president-elect is said to be considering are flying across Washington, prompting lawmakers and interest groups to raise questions about some top contenders.

#attorneys-general, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #central-intelligence-agency, #defense-department, #energy-department, #environmental-protection-agency, #homeland-security-department, #interior-department, #justice-department, #liberalism-us-politics, #national-economic-council-us, #office-of-management-and-budget-us, #presidential-transition-us, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 10:00 am on November 19, 2020
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Trump’s Mean Policies

A succession of Trump policies reflected the administration’s spite and heartlessness.

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