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Illustration on President Trump's tenacious attitude by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency
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Drug Death from China Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered the rebuttal to President Trump's address on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer says he is suspicious of the Treasury's breaks for three companies associated with a Russian oligarch. (Associated Press/File)
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In this March 6, 2015, file photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex looking for a specific undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony during an early morning operation in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) **FILE**
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Socialist Bumper Sticker Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on expanding health care options by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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In his speech, then-President Obama laid out a three-prong approach to fixing what he called the "broken immigration system." (Associated Press)
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In this Nov. 5, 2018, file photo, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, the 2018 Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, speaks during a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., speaks during a news conference about the tax cut on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**
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"It's going to be a change, of course, because we're going to the minority and we'll have to be careful and smart," said Rep. Steve Scalise, Louisiana Republican days before the changeover. (Associated Press)
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A variety of military-style semiautomatic rifles obtained during a buy back program are displayed at Los Angeles police headquarters on Thursday, Dec. 27,2012. Similar weapons have been used in at least four high-profile shootings in the past year, including most recently the Connecticut school shootings and the Christmas Eve killings of two New York firefighters. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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While much of President Trump's immigration agenda remains tied up in the federal courts or stalemated in Congress, he has made extraordinary progress on recalcitrant countries. (Associated Press)
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Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Border Protection officers to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Border Protection officers to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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In this combination photo, Fox News personality Laura Ingraham speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 20, 2016, left, and David Hogg, a student survivor from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks at a rally for common sense gun legislation in Livingston, N.J. on Feb. 25, 2018. Ingraham is expected back at work on Monday, April 9, 2018 following a backlash by advertisers upset over her tweet mocking a the Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, left, and Rich Schultz)
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In this Nov. 16, 2018, file photo, an immigrant who entered the United States illegally is checked before boarding a deportation flight to El Salvador by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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Many Central American migrants from caravans have become discouraged by the wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry and are choosing to cross into the U.S. and surrender to Border Patrol agents. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2015 file photo, Scott Smith, a supporter of open carry gun laws, wears a pistol as he prepares for a rally in support of open carry gun laws at the Capitol, in Austin, Texas. Texas the second-most populous state, is joining 44 other states in allowing at least some firearm owners to carry handguns openly in public places. Under the Texas law, guns can be carried by those with licenses and only in holsters. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)