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Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., listens during a committee oversight hearing with testimony from Congressional Budget Office Director Keith Hall, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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FILE - In this April 19, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington during a ceremony where he honored the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots for their Super Bowl LI victory. Trump is renewing his complaints about NFL players who kneel during the national anthem. Players have been kneeling to protest racism and police brutality, particularly toward people of color. Trump says the act is disrespectful and is hurting the game. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Sanders was asked about the strength of the U.S. dollar, the recent school shootings and other topics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks at the 2014 Values Voter Summit in Washington, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. Prospective Republican presidential candidates are promoting religious liberty at home and abroad at a gathering of evangelical conservatives, rebuking an unpopular President Barack Obama while skirting divisive social issues that have tripped up the GOP. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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ESPN sportswriter Jemele Hill claimed Sunday morning that President Trump often uses "racial pornography" to fire up his base. (MSNBC)

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The national council that represents 7,500 employees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not withdrawing its support from President Trump, but a letter sent to the White House on Friday says the path he is taking in immigration negotiations undercuts the security promises he made on the campaign trail. (Associated Press/File)

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Chain Migration Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, a member of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, questions officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs about allegations of gross mismanagement and misconduct at VA hospitals possibly leading to patient deaths, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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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)

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Patricia Cummings, a 7th-grade teacher at Middle School 118 in the Bronx, is accused of singling out three black students in her class and making them lie on the floor as part of a U.S. history lesson on slavery. (NBC New York)

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People march in support of female empowerment and women's rights Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, in Portland, Ore. Participants in the #MeToo March gathered at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Associated Press photo

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Mayor Muriel Bowser (center), a Democrat unveils her "Fair Shot" program to guide more African American residents and businesses into the middle class during an event at Howard Theatre in Shaw on February 1st, 2018. The collection of D.C. governments resources is also a jump start to her re-election bid for the mayor's office. (Julia Airey / The Washington Times)

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Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha rejected human rights groups’ criticism and refused to commit to holding national elections this year as he originally promised. (Associated Press/File)

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Rep. Maxine Waters' rebuttal to President Trump's first State of the Union address called the president a "terrible role model" who deserves a parental advisory every time he appears on television. (BET)

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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters as he leaves the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is moderating bipartisan negotiations on immigration, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. President Donald Trump has given Congress until March to come up with a plan to protect the nearly 700,000 young people who had been protected from deportation and given the right to work legally in the country under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Trump announced he was ending DACA last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Mayor Muriel Bowser (center), a Democrat, signs a bill written by D.C. council member Charles Allen (left), a Democrat representing Ward 6, preventing insurance companies from charging more for women's health services like cancer screenings or contraceptive costs. The two endorsed the bill together on Wednesday January 31st at Planned Parenthood's Carol Whitehill Moses Center in the Northeast of the city. (Julia Airey / The Washington Times)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., listen to the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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"People of the Mountain State, you deserve to know, when it came to cutting your taxes, Joe voted 'no,'" Vice President Mike Pence said. "Joe voted 'no' to give working families more of your hard-earned money. Joe voted 'no' on tax cuts for job creators. And on expanding the child tax credit, giving you your first $24,000 in income tax-free -- real breaks for families in West Virginia -- Joe voted 'no.'" (Associated Press)