Social Issues

AP_18046693991652.jpg

A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, left, making an appearance before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in Broward County Court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cruz is accused of opening fire Wednesday at the school killing more than a dozen people and injuring several. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Zackary Walls, Colton Haab.jpg

Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Capt. Zackary Walls (center) and Capt. Colton Haab (left) built a wall of Kevlar pads to shield themselves and fellow classmates during Wednesday's mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida. (ABC News)

wayne state.jpg

A Wayne State University student has been suspended pending a police investigation after he was accused of pulling out a knife and threatening immigrants Tuesday. (Detroit Free Press)

2_152018_b1-thor-patent-law-8201.jpg

Patent Law Working Properly Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

AP_18043555262935.jpg

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, leans in to speak to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before his speech at the McConnell Center's Distinguished Speaker Series Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) **FILE**

AP_18046693991652.jpg

A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, left, making an appearance before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in Broward County Court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cruz is accused of opening fire Wednesday at the school killing more than a dozen people and injuring several. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

AP_16272654288277.jpg

FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Politicians love trying to use the tax code to highlight their goals to voters. This year, it’s a battlefield between Hillary Clinton, who wants to boost levies on the rich to pay for expanding social programs and Donald Trump, who says cutting taxes would gird the economy. The clash has consequences for the rich, poor and those in the middle. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

AP_18023736564411.jpg

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters following a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

2_142018_b3-thomas8201.jpg

Illustration on welfare and poverty by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

2_132018_trump-2-88201.jpg

The budget plan by President Trump released this week "notes a lack of a clear federal role for supporting the cost of higher education specifically for District residents." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

2_132018_congress-trump-budget-58201.jpg

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that the 2019 budget plan leaves big deficits, but he said this would have been even worse without some $3 trillion in cuts over the next decade that President Trump suggested. Mr. Mulvaney said that he warned Congress last year that both parties need to reduce their spending. testifies before the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, on President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal. (Associated Press)