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Americans evenly divided on whether Trump or a Democrat will prevail next year, poll finds; Mulvaney pushes the health-care fight Trump wants despite GOP's misgivings

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Trump renews threat to close the southern border, blasts Mexico on immigration The president tweeted a day after the nation's top border official warned that the U.S. immigration enforcement system is at "the breaking point." By John Wagner · Read more Americans evenly divided on whether Trump or a Democrat will prevail next year, poll finds The NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll also found majorities of adults think the country is going in the wrong direction and disapprove of how the president is handling his job. By John Wagner · Read more   Mulvaney pushes the health-care fight Trump wants despite GOP's misgivings Acting chief of staff helped persuade the president to support striking down the ACA, over the objections of some on Capitol Hill. By Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Damian Paletta · Read more   Trump told Hannity he won't rule out pardoning Michael Flynn and others in first interview since Mueller probe ended The president told the Fox News host that he would "absolutely" declassify FISA warrants. By Colby Itkowitz · Read more     ADVERTISEMENT   Prison 'street cred' and a standing ovation: George Papadopoulos on doing time 'in Trump Country' When he showed up at the minimum-security federal facility in late November, Papadopoulos wrote in his book, he almost immediately realized he had nothing to worry about. By Reis Thebault · Read more   Attorney general expected to miss deadline for giving Mueller report to Congress, will not commit to releasing it in full William P. Barr tells House Judiciary Committee chairman it will be 'weeks, not months' before lawmakers can have a redacted copy. By Karoun Demirjian · Read more   Twitter still won't remove Trump's tweets that violate its rules. But it will label them. Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy and trust & safety, made the revelation on stage at a Washington Post-sponsored event in San Francisco. By Faiz Siddiqui · Read more   Fact Checker · Analysis Here's why Trump says Puerto Rico is getting $91 billion in disaster relief The federal government has spent relatively little of what has been committed to repair the island. But bigger bills could be coming due. By Glenn Kessler · Read more     ADVERTISEMENT   As Grand Rapids awaits Trump, both sides of the political divide find their anger stoked by the Mueller report A report that was supposed to reveal indisputable facts for partisans on both sides, creating some certainty, instead leads to new arguments By Greg Jaffe and Jenna Johnson · Read more   Trump pressures wary Republicans to produce replacement for health-care law The president reached out to several GOP senators about a request many see as unrealistic in a divided Congress. By Rachael Bade, Josh Dawsey, Seung Min Kim and John Wagner · Read more   The Fix · Analysis Pompeo repeatedly declines to blame Kim Jong Un personally for human rights abuses Pompeo accused the congressman of using Warmbier as a "political football." By Aaron Blake · Read more   Today's WorldView · Analysis Remember Jared Kushner's Middle East peace plan? The plan could be released in 20 years, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joked on Wednesday. If only. By Adam Taylor · Read more   Recommended for you Get the Technology 202 newsletter Your daily guide to the intersection of technology and politics. Sign Up

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