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Former Belgian professional basketball player from Brazil, Sebastien Bellin, speaks with the Associated Press at the Aalster Basketball Forum in Aalst, Belgium on Thursday, March 16, 2017. The former basketball player, badly hurt in the suicide bomb attack on Brussels airport a year ago is urging the Belgian government to live up to its pledge to help the victims. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., joined by Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., prepares to gavel a hearing on the Republican health care bill, Thursday, March, 16, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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From left, Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., and Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., and the House Budget Committee members work on the Republican health care bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March, 16, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, opposes the Republican health care bill during work by the House Budget Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March, 16, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and the House Budget Committee works on the Republican health care bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March, 16, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Budget Committee Chair Diane Black, R-Tenn., right, joined at left by Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., and panel staff member Jim Bates, center, works on the Republican health care bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March, 16, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei holds a press conference at the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Ai weiwei has prepared for the gallery a 70-metre-long inflatable boat with life-size figures of 258 refugees, called "The Law of the Journey," and it is one of the artist's biggest work of art so far. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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An installation made by Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei is displayed at the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, March 16, 2017. A 70-metre-long inflatable boat with life-size figures of 258 refugees prepared for the gallery, called "The Law of the Journey," is one of the artist's biggest work of art so far. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei looks into a glass ball which is part of his installation at the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Ai Weiwei has prepared for the gallery a 70-metre-long inflatable boat with life-size figures of 258 refugees, called "The Law of the Journey," and it is one of the artist's biggest work of art so far. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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An installation made by Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei is displayed at the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, March 16, 2017. A 70-metre-long inflatable boat with life-size figures of 258 refugees prepared for the gallery, called "The Law of the Journey," is one of the artists biggest work of art so far. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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An installation made by Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei is displayed at the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, March 16, 2017. A 70-metre-long inflatable boat with life-size figures of 258 refugees prepared for the gallery, called "The Law of the Journey," s one of the artist's biggest work of art so far. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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An installation made by Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei is displayed at the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, March 16, 2017. A 70-metre-long inflatable boat with life-size figures of 258 refugees prepared for the gallery, called "The Law of the Journey," is one of the artist's biggest work of art so far. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei poses by his installation displayed at the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, March 16, 2017. A 70-metre-long inflatable boat with life-size figures of 258 refugees prepared for the gallery, called "The Law of the Journey," is one of the artists biggest work of art so far. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Copies of President Donald Trump's first budget are displayed at the Government Printing Office in Washington, Thursday, March, 16, 2017. Trump unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget on Thursday, a far-reaching overhaul of federal government spending that slashes many domestic programs to finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Copies of President Donald Trump's first budget are displayed at the Government Printing Office in Washington, Thursday, March, 16, 2017. Trump unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget on Thursday, a far-reaching overhaul of federal government spending that slashes many domestic programs to finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Nadia Hanan Madalo, left, walks with her son after arriving to the airport Thursday, March 16, 2017, in San Diego. Madalo and her family, refugees forced to flee their town of Batnaya, Iraq, after the Islamic State invaded and destroyed it several years ago, arrived in San Diego to be reunited with Madalo's siblings and mother. As they flew to the U.S. on Wednesday, a federal judge in Hawaii put a hold on President Trump's newest ban - the latest development in a fight between the administration and the courts that has injected more uncertainty into the lives of refugees. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Nadia Hanan Madalo, center, talks with family members as she sits in her brother's apartment Thursday, March 16, 2017, in El Cajon, Calif, after arriving to the United States. Madalo and her family, refugees forced to flee their town of Batnaya, Iraq, after the Islamic State invaded and destroyed it several years ago, arrived in San Diego to be reunited with Madalo's siblings and mother. As they flew to the U.S. on Wednesday, a federal judge in Hawaii put a hold on President Trump's newest ban - the latest development in a fight between the administration and the courts that has injected more uncertainty into the lives of refugees. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Nadia Hanan Madalo, center, talks with her mother, Alyshooa Kannah, second from right, and other family members as she sits down for a meal in her brother's apartment Thursday, March 16, 2017, in El Cajon, Calif, after arriving to the United States. Madalo and her family, refugees forced to flee their town of Batnaya, Iraq, after the Islamic State invaded and destroyed it several years ago, arrived in San Diego to be reunited with Madalo's siblings and mother. As they flew to the U.S. on Wednesday, a federal judge in Hawaii put a hold on President Trump's newest ban - the latest development in a fight between the administration and the courts that has injected more uncertainty into the lives of refugees. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oraha, 12, boards a bus in the Erbil International Airport in Irbil, Iraq, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. An Iraqi family has landed in the United States as a federal court blocked a travel ban that would have kept others like them out of the country for 120 days. Nadia Hanan Madalo and her family arrived in San Diego to be reunited with Madalo’s siblings and mother, who arrived as refugees in recent years. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Noor, 8, center, sits with her sister Maryam, 18, and their mother Nadia Hanan Madalo, 46, right, as they wait in an airport bus in Irbil, Iraq, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. An Iraqi family has landed in the United States as a federal court blocked a travel ban that would have kept others like them out of the country for 120 days.Madalo and her family arrived in San Diego to be reunited with Madalo’s siblings and mother, who arrived as refugees in recent years. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
