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Supporters of "Moms Clean Air Force" raise their fists in defiance of proposed EPA budget cuts by the Trump administration during a rally on the Upper Senate Park grounds on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Photographs by Emma Ayers/The Washington Times)
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FILE - In this June 26, 2017 file photo Kadhim Al-bumohammed, center, an Iraqi refugee in the U.S., listens to speakers at an Albuquerque, N.M., rally in his honor. Al-bumohammed an Iraqi Muslim refugee who trained U.S. troops going to Iraq and is now facing deportation is seeking sanctuary inside an Albuquerque church. Al-bumohammed decided to skip his immigration hearing Thursday, July 13, where he was expected to be detained. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the University of Maryland Police Department, Sean Urbanski. Urbanski, arrested in a fatal stabbing at the University of Maryland that has been under investigation as a possible hate crime has been indicted on a murder charge. (University of Maryland Police Department via AP, File)
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India’s telecoms regulator has essentially banned a Facebook program that sought to connect with low-income residents by offering free access to a limited version of the social network and other internet services, as part of a ruling in favor of net neutrality. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2016 file photo shows the entrance to St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is launching a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual assault and misconduct at the elite prep school. The investigation into the school follows the release of a report in May 2017 detailing sexual assaults by teachers on their students, earlier information about student sexual conquest rituals and allegations of a similar ritual reported in June. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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Fortunato Perri, a defense attorney for Cosmo DiNardo, walks to the Bucks County Courthouse in, Doylestown, Pa., Thursday, July 13, 2017. DiNardo admitted killing the four men who went missing last week and told authorities the location of the bodies. Prosecutors agreed to take the death penalty off the table in return for DiNardo's cooperation. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Cosmo DiNardo is escorted to a vehicle while in police custody Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Doylestown, Pa. Lawyer Paul Lang, a defense attorney for DiNardo, said Thursday that his client has admitted killing the four men who went missing last week and told authorities the location of the bodies. Lang says prosecutors agreed to take the death penalty off the table in return for DiNardo's cooperation. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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This photo provided by Janssen Biotech, Inc. shows the drug Tremfya. On Thursday, July 13, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the new drug Tremfya, from Johnson & Johnson, for people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. (Janssen Biotech, Inc. via AP)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017. Schumer warned that moves by House Republicans to make a down payment on the Mexico wall and cut domestic programs is a “dangerous, irresponsible path” that “can only lead to a government shutdown.”“They’re steering us towards a train wreck,” he said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Activists, many members of the clergy, are arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, after protesting against the Republican health care bill outside the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and other lawmakers head to the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, for a meeting on the revised Republican health care bill which has been under attack from within the party. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, after a revised version of the Republican health care bill was announced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. The bill has faced opposition and challenges within the Republican ranks, including by Sen. Collins. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Immigration attorney Rebecca Kitson, left, and ACLU New Mexico spokesman Micah McCoy, right, speak in support of Iraqi refugee Kadhim Al-bumohammed outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Albuquerque on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Al-bumohammed opted to skip his scheduled federal immigration hearing Thursday where he was expected to be detained, and instead said he is seeking sanctuary at an Albuquerque church. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Demonstrators rally in support of Iraqi refugee Kadhim Al-bumohammed outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Albuquerque on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Al-bumohammed opted to skip his scheduled federal immigration hearing Thursday where he was expected to be detained, and instead said he is seeking sanctuary at an Albuquerque church. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Demonstrators rally in support of Iraqi refugee Kadhim Al-bumohammed outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Albuquerque on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Al-bumohammed opted to skip his scheduled federal immigration hearing Thursday where he was expected to be detained, and instead said he is seeking sanctuary at an Albuquerque church. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the University of Maryland Police Department, Sean Urbanski. Urbanski, arrested in a fatal stabbing at the University of Maryland that has been under investigation as a possible hate crime has been indicted on a murder charge. (University of Maryland Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, Rep Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo. speaks in Sedalia, Mo. The House is set to consider a Republican-backed measure that would stop the Pentagon from paying for U.S. service members to undergo gender transition surgeries. Hartzler. the amendment’s autho says she wants to ensure the military’s budget is spent on threats facing the country. Her measure bars money from being spent by the military’s health care system on gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
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In this undated file photo provided by the University of Maryland Police Department, Sean Urbanski. Urbanski, arrested in a fatal stabbing at the University of Maryland that has been under investigation as a possible hate crime has been indicted on a murder charge. (University of Maryland Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala, during a news conference on the steps of the Orange County Courthouse, announces that her office will no longer pursue the death penalty as a sentence in any case brought before the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. There was nothing unusual about a June 19 traffic stop in Orlando -- except the driver happened to be Ayala, Florida’s first African-American state attorney, who also happens to be in a legal fight with the governor over the death penalty. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, after announcing the revised version of the Republican health care bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
