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US Senate passes $4.6bn border funding bill – as it happened | |
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OK everybody, it’s been real. But now it’s time for the first of the 2020 DNC presidential primary debates! My colleague Adam Gabbatt is in Miami and will have all the updates you could possibly need. Follow along on the live blog here: | |
Democratic debates: 2020 candidates go head to head in first test of primaries – live | |
Seriously, is every 2020 Democratic presidential candidate visiting the Homestead facility? | |
.@BernieSanders will visit the Homestead detention facility tomorrow at 10 am. He also says in a statement that as president, he would swiftly "convene a high level meeting" with leaders of Latin American countries to address conditions that motivate people to flee. | |
With just minutes to go to the first of the Democratic primary debates, President Trump has begun tweeting up a storm. | |
According to Fake News (and low ratings) @CNN, “Democrats say hearings could change impeachment debate.” That’s because they have lost the impeachment debate (80% say NO), and they are hoping that yet another DO OVER, after 2 1/2 years and $40,000,000, will turn things around.... | |
....No Collusion, No Obstruction! Robert Mueller said he was done after his last 9 minute news conference, as later corrected. Now the Dems want to give it another try. Does it ever end? | |
Immediately after his tweets about impeachment and Robert Mueller, the president moved right on to immigration. | |
The Republican Senate just passed bipartisan humanitarian assistance for our Southern Border, 84-8! In addition to aid, Congress must close the catastrophic loopholes that are driving the Crisis. We must end incentives for Smuggling Children, Trafficking Women, and Selling Drugs. | |
It’s almost as if he doesn’t want you to pay attention to something. | |
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper responds to his earlier rough start to tonight’s debate: | |
Last time, we elected the most famous candidate. Let’s try something new. | |
The happening place to be? | |
Elizabeth Warren & Amy Klobuchar today went to the Homestead facility where immigrant children are being held - and that's being repeated by a number of other Democrats here in Miami pic.twitter.com/204Ncwymyq | |
The political celebrity sightings have begun. Andrew Gillum, the progressive from Tallahassee who almost won the red state Florida governor’s mansion for the Democrats, is spotted down the street. | |
Andrew Gillum sighting at the Miami Hilton down the street from the Dem debates. He’s hosting a watch party for Fla Dems | |
Before the debate tonight, take a look at what some of the Democratic candidates had to say about the heartbreaking image of the drowned migrant father and daughter at the US-Mexico border: | Before the debate tonight, take a look at what some of the Democratic candidates had to say about the heartbreaking image of the drowned migrant father and daughter at the US-Mexico border: |
'Trump is responsible': Democratic candidates blame US policy after tragic photo emerges | 'Trump is responsible': Democratic candidates blame US policy after tragic photo emerges |
On the lighter side of congressional news, transportation committee members raced scooters on capitol hill today. | On the lighter side of congressional news, transportation committee members raced scooters on capitol hill today. |
Bipartisan scooter races! Just your average day at the Transport Committee @RodneyDavis @Malinowski @TransportGOP pic.twitter.com/r45t4cpoXD | Bipartisan scooter races! Just your average day at the Transport Committee @RodneyDavis @Malinowski @TransportGOP pic.twitter.com/r45t4cpoXD |
Hey all, Vivian Ho here for a SUPER BRIEF live blog before the first of the Democratic primary debates. Hope everyone’s jazzed. | Hey all, Vivian Ho here for a SUPER BRIEF live blog before the first of the Democratic primary debates. Hope everyone’s jazzed. |
With that I bid you a good afternoon, as Vivian Ho comes on board to take you through the rest of the day until our Adam Gabbatt fires up late live blog coverage of the Democratic primary debate from south Florida tonight. | With that I bid you a good afternoon, as Vivian Ho comes on board to take you through the rest of the day until our Adam Gabbatt fires up late live blog coverage of the Democratic primary debate from south Florida tonight. |
Here are a few key things you may have missed today: | Here are a few key things you may have missed today: |
The House and Senate have both passed bills which provide in the neighborhood of $4.5bn in funding to address the crisis on the border, but it’s unclear how lawmakers expect to square the competing proposals. | The House and Senate have both passed bills which provide in the neighborhood of $4.5bn in funding to address the crisis on the border, but it’s unclear how lawmakers expect to square the competing proposals. |
A Buzzfeed News investigation found that US investigators have found dismal conditions at migrant camps, similar to the ones that have been described in recent news accounts. | A Buzzfeed News investigation found that US investigators have found dismal conditions at migrant camps, similar to the ones that have been described in recent news accounts. |
More or less the whole Democratic field of contenders took trips to a detention camp in south Florida Wednesday ahead of this evening’s debate. | More or less the whole Democratic field of contenders took trips to a detention camp in south Florida Wednesday ahead of this evening’s debate. |
Two Republican Senators have come out and said that new rape claims against Donald Trump should be investigated. | Two Republican Senators have come out and said that new rape claims against Donald Trump should be investigated. |
Also, Donald Trump (surprise, surprise) made a laundry list of off-color and meanspirited remarks today, during a televised interview and a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition. They included: | Also, Donald Trump (surprise, surprise) made a laundry list of off-color and meanspirited remarks today, during a televised interview and a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition. They included: |
Seeming excitement at the prospect of the late Senator John McCain spending eternity in damnation | Seeming excitement at the prospect of the late Senator John McCain spending eternity in damnation |
Threatening to fire his Federal Reserve Chairman | Threatening to fire his Federal Reserve Chairman |
Calling German chancellor Angela Merkel “someone who hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I’ve ever met”... Which is pretty weird because he’s definitely met Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un. | Calling German chancellor Angela Merkel “someone who hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I’ve ever met”... Which is pretty weird because he’s definitely met Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un. |
Attacking a US women’s soccer player | Attacking a US women’s soccer player |
Joking about using his office to “go after” political rivals | Joking about using his office to “go after” political rivals |
All before heading off for Japan this afternoon. | All before heading off for Japan this afternoon. |
Hundreds of people out to demonstrate in Boston in solidarity with Wayfair workers who walked out over their company’s decision to sell furniture for use in migrant detention centers. | Hundreds of people out to demonstrate in Boston in solidarity with Wayfair workers who walked out over their company’s decision to sell furniture for use in migrant detention centers. |
Wow! Look at the hundreds of people gathered in Copley Square, Boston in solidarity with @wayfairwalkout workers. Thank you!#WayfairWalkout pic.twitter.com/Gug53kJh6u | Wow! Look at the hundreds of people gathered in Copley Square, Boston in solidarity with @wayfairwalkout workers. Thank you!#WayfairWalkout pic.twitter.com/Gug53kJh6u |
Senator and presidential hopeful Cory Booker is calling for hearings on reports of ICE using solitary confinement in migrant detention camps, often against mentally ill persons, and detainees who hadn’t violated any rules. | Senator and presidential hopeful Cory Booker is calling for hearings on reports of ICE using solitary confinement in migrant detention camps, often against mentally ill persons, and detainees who hadn’t violated any rules. |
In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, Booker cites May reports by NBC News and The Intercept that ICE placed thousands of immigrants in solitary confinement between 2012 and 2017. | In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, Booker cites May reports by NBC News and The Intercept that ICE placed thousands of immigrants in solitary confinement between 2012 and 2017. |
ICE’s own policy seems to recognize the dangers of solitary confinement. The policy states that the ‘[p]lacement of detainees in segregated housing is a serious step that requires careful consideration of alternatives... In particular, placement in administrative segregation due to a special vulnerability should be used only as a last resort and when no other viable housing options exist.’” | ICE’s own policy seems to recognize the dangers of solitary confinement. The policy states that the ‘[p]lacement of detainees in segregated housing is a serious step that requires careful consideration of alternatives... In particular, placement in administrative segregation due to a special vulnerability should be used only as a last resort and when no other viable housing options exist.’” |
-Cory Booker | -Cory Booker |