April 24, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where Congress has four days to pass a spending plan to avert a government shutdown. Republicans look wobbly as Democrats balk at promises such as the border wall, Genevieve Wood notes. President Trump and GOP lawmakers can claim major gains in cutting regulations, Rachel del Guidice reports. Trump also made it harder for businesses to replace workers with foreign labor, Josh Siegel writes. Plus: Ana Quintana on the turmoil in Venezuela, and Mike Gonzalez on two outsiders left standing in France's presidential race. Today, many American Muslims observe Muhammad's Night Journey.
"We're excited about what we're doing so far. We've done more than that's ever been done in the history of Congress with the CRA," says Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., referring to the law called the Congressional Review Act.
In the span of just over 20 years, President Nicolás Maduro, his predecessor Hugo Chavez, and their "Socialism of the 21st Century" have singlehandedly destroyed a country sitting atop the world's largest oil reserves.
France held a presidential election Sunday under the looming threat of Islamist terrorism, and winnowed the field to two candidates at opposite ends of what has become the new ideological battle line of our era: nationalism vs. globalism.
Kurt Ho learned his job at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center was being outsourced to a company in India, called HCL Technologies.
Despite all the campaign promises to "rein in government" and "get the country's fiscal house in order," the groundwork is already being laid by Republican lawmakers to explain why they just aren't going to be able to put the brakes on spending after all.
At this critical moment, it is vital that the United States has a comprehensive strategy that addresses the situation in Syria, writes Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind.
"The 2,000-plus pages of the Obamacare legislation include so many taxes, mandates, regulations, unelected bureaucrats, and on and on that the only way to 'drain the swamp' of this horrendous, ill-conceived legislation is full and complete repeal," writes Dick Matise of Texas.
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