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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer criticized the guidelines. He said President Trump and Republicans "will have blood on their hands." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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In this July 10, 2018, file photo, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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The push is on by centrist Democrats who are convinced they can woo the huge population of moderate and undecided voters to their side. (Associated Press)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

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This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. (AP Photo, File)

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An estimated 100,000 illegitimate voters are on Pennsylvania's rolls because of motor vehicle registration system problems and an inability to weed out fraud, the Public Interest Legal Foundation has found. (Associated Press)

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L. Francis Cissna, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, poses in his office in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Don Rosenberg, father of Drew Rosenberg who was killed by an illegal immigrant is arrested after disrupting a Senate Judiciary hearing to examine the Administration's immigration enforcement policies, in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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Gustavo Envela Jr. is a political activist who plans to run for president in his home nation of Equitorial Guinea. (Video screenshot via YouTube / PresidentEnvela)

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Illustration on union pensions by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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A white woman was fired from her job managing an apartment complex in Memphis after a black woman recorded her calling the police on her boyfriend for wearing socks in the pool. (WREG)

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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says federal officials are making "substantial changes" to end the long-term detention of migrant families who are being held mainly at two large facilities in Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Rhode Island House Minority Whip Joseph Trillo, R-Warwick, addresses the House Chamber during a legislative session, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I. The state's proposed $8.9 billion budget is expected to head to a vote in the House of Representatives Wednesday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who has been moderating bipartisan negotiations on immigration, arrives at the Senate just before the announcement of an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. The spending deal did not include a plan to protect the "Dreamers" who have been protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, (top) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican (bottom left) are being specifically sought out by abortion-rights activists to reject President Trump's nomination for Supreme Court. Activists say Mr. Trump will nominate a pro-life judge. (Associated press photographs)

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After nearly two decades as the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, walks to the floor of the Senate to give her farewell speech, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. In the chamber, Sen. Hutchison became emotional as she recalled her "Homaker's IRA" legislation which gave homemakers - men and women - the same rights to establish an Individual Retirement Account, or IRA, as their working spouses. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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A white man who called the police on a black woman for refusing to hand over her ID at a private community pool in North Carolina is now out of a job after a video of the incident went viral. (Facebook/@Jasmine Edwards)

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A survey finds that voters are not ready to let go of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. About 55 percent are opposed to the idea. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the realities of "comparative advantage" economic theory by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times