Trump faces reckoning as GOP figures label $5K promise a ‘socialist vote-buying scheme’

President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 checks to American adults if Republicans win both chambers of Congress is forcing Republicans to debate an idea more commonly associated with the Democratic side of the aisle: sending direct government payments to…

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Illegal convicted of assaulting high school girls thought he was free — then DHS dropped the hammer

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was returned to his home country this week after the Department of Homeland Security took him into custody in sanctuary Fairfax County, Virginia, where he had just served an abbreviated jail sentence, and deported…

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