Aug. 3, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump gets behind a Senate bill to modernize the nation's immigration system. Fred Lucas reports. A prominent House conservative points the way to overhauling the tax code. Rachel del Guidice has details. A radical leftist hopes to perpetuate ethnic divisions by changing the census, John Fonte and Mike Gonzalez write. Plus: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers on what the House doesn't get credit for, Sharyl Attkisson on new evidence the government hacked her, and Dennis Prager on facing the music as a conservative.
Linda Sarsour, an anti-Israel activist, is pushing the government to adopt fake ethnic categories in the census that would pit Americans against each other—and give her a powerful platform.
"The RAISE Act will reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars," the president says, flanked by the Senate bill's co-sponsors.
"Despite all of the distractions, countdown clocks, and media hysteria, we are laser-focused on the issues Americans care about," writes Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who chairs the House Republican Conference.
"There's two ways things get done in Washington, D.C.," Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., says. "Slow and never. And so what we have to make sure of is that the slow progress doesn't become never."
Records suggest the former head of the Democratic Party kept paying a House IT aide who long had access to her computer files and emails, even after he no longer provided services to her.
Tracing the evidence of the government-related intrusion to individual participants hasn’t been easy, Sharyl Attkisson writes.
This is a new low for the illiberal left: It is not enough to prevent conservatives from speaking; it is now necessary to prevent conservatives from appearing even when not speaking.
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