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Pelosi Wins As Trump Caves, Agrees To Three-Week, Short-Term Funding Bill
12 Immigrant Workers
It’s the 35th day of the par- tial government shutdown, payday for federal workers in which 800,000 of them got paychecks for $0.00. Presi- dent Donald Trump fi- nally had to cry “uncle.” In a Rose Garden speech Friday, with Nancy Pelosi’s Jimmy Choo stuck in his heart, he announced he had agreed to sign a clean continuing reso- lution to reopen the govern- ment through February 15.
“I am very proud to an- nounce we have a deal to end the shutdown,” he said, adding “Everyone knows I have a very powerful alterna- tive.” That would be the total not-emergency emergency declaration that is not hap- pening.
The plan, according to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s office, is for
At Trump Golf Course
both the House and the Sen- ate to pass the CR by unani- mous consent today, Friday and to begin a conference be- tween the House and Senate on funding for the Depart- ment of Homeland Security immediately. Spending bills have been agreed to by both chambers on the other agen-
cies that have been caught up in Trump’s drive-by shut- down.
It’s a win for Nancy Pelosi. Her second one in a week. Trump backed down on the State of the Union ad- dress, and now he’s reopen- ing government without wall funding.
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were called into a room one by one and fired, according to reports.
'This is bogus. People have been there for 12, 13, 14 years,' said Romero. He added, referring to one of the president's sons, 'One had the keys to Eric Trump's bedroom.'
NANCY PELOSI
One of Donald Trump's golf clubs has reportedly fired 12 illegal immigrant workers, despite allegedly knowing about their legal status for years.
A dozen employees at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, are said to have been let go as the president railed against immigrants coming into the country illegally.
Anibal Romero, a lawyer for the workers, said Satur- day many of them had worked at the club for a dozen or more years and managers there knew they had submitted phony docu- ments but looked the other way.
The chefs, housekeepers and waiters, who won em- ployee-of-the-month awards,
Fired, Lawyer Says
Civil Rights Groups Want To Stop Big
Trump's Bad Day: Stone
Tech From Selling Facial Recognition
Arrest, Airport Chaos,
Software To the Government
Shutdown Surrender
Facial recognition tech- nology is the latest tool that big tech is racing to perfect and a coalition of 85 civil rights organizations are try- ing to stop the country’s largest tech companies from selling it to the government. The groups, which include the American Civil Liberties Union, Muslim Justice League, Color of Change and the National Immigration Law Center, sent letters today to Google, Microsoft and Amazon urging the com- panies to not sell their facial recognition technologies to the government.
“History has clearly taught us that the government will exploit technologies like face surveillance to target com- munities of color, religious minorities, and immigrants,” said Nicole Ozer, Technol- ogy and Civil Liberties direc- tor for the ACLU of California, in a press release. “We are at a crossroads with face surveillance, and the choices made by these com- panies now will determine whether the next generation will have to fear being
FACIAL RECOGNITION
Roger Stone got indicted. LaGuardia Airport was briefly disrupted. And for Donald Trump, the wall suddenly be- came expendable.
The president faced a day of setbacks on Friday, culmi- nating with his capitulation to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the 35-day government shutdown. His agreement to reopen the government until Feb. 15 without any guarantee of money for his proposed bor- der wall left some of his allies furious.
But events earlier in the day could prove even more consequential for his presi- dency. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indict- ment of Stone, following his pre-dawn arrest, illustrated further connections between Trump’s presidential cam- paign and the Russian effort to influence the 2016 election.
A brief halt on landings at LaGuardia due to a lack of air traffic controllers and cascad- ing flight delays across the East Coast may have driven Trump to fold on the shut- down. But his Rose Garden an- nouncement of a deal also served to distract from the morning’s headlines about Stone, yet another former
Roger Stone leaves federal court on Friday, Jan. 25.
close Trump associate to fall to Mueller’s probe.
Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, insisted to reporters that Stone’s troubles had nothing to do with the White House. But Mueller said that a senior Trump campaign official -- likely campaign chairman Paul Manafort or his deputy Rick Gates -- “was directed” to contact Stone to learn about damaging information WikiLeaks had obtained about Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. The special counsel didn’t say who did the direct- ing.
tracked by the government for attending a protest, going to their place of worship, or simply living their lives.”
In January of last year, Google said it “fixed” a flaw in its facial recognition algo- rithm that misidentified black people as gorillas by blocking the terms “gorilla,” “chimp,” “chimpanzee,” and “monkey.”
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai outlined the tech giant’s AI principles in a blog, saying the company wanted to avoid creating and reinforcing unfair biases,
aimed to be socially benefi- cial, and wanted to avoid in- jury to people.
In a December interview with the Washington Post, Pichai called fears about ar- tificial intelligence legiti- mate. Google received backlash from its employees last year after the company worked with the Department of Defense to provide AI that could identify buildings and car tags. The company said that it would not sell its facial recognition technology until its dangers were addressed.
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