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White House and Political News
Cuomo To Trump: $1 Billion For Detention Of Migrant Kids Not Money Well Spent
Americans Have Voted
Govenor Cuomo, in a sharply-worded letter Satur- day, ripped President Trump while urging the redirection of $1 billion spent on detaining immigrant kids to a variety of beneficial pro- grams.
“It is both shocking and ir- responsible — but sadly not surprising — that your ad- ministration is spending over a billion dollars to continue the immoral and un-America policy of detaining immigrant children,” wrote Cuomo.
“How about instead using these (taxpayer) funds to make a real difference in the lives of the American peo- ple?”
Cuomo offered five op- tions in lieu of the ten-figure cost of shelters, foster care and other services for the de- tained children, with his sug- gestions ranging from increased Pell Grants funding for college tuition costs to
An Associated Press analysis found the detention of immigrant kids has grown into a lucrative business across the last 10 years, rising to nearly $1 billion annually in the United States. The 11,800 kids currently housed in the U.S. include both chil- dren separated from migrant parents and those who ar- rived at the border by them- selves.
Health and Human Serv- ices grants for children re- moved from their migrant parents hit $958 million last year, up from just $74.5 mil- lion a decade earlier. HHS is reviewing new grant propos- als as the Trump Adminis- tration continues its immigration crackdown.
“If neither your conscience nor the voice of the American people compels you to put an end to this injustice, then I hope money will,” Cuomo concluded.
President Of Their Lifetime
Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged President Trump to redirect the money spent on detaining kids separated from their mi- grant parents to a variety of beneficial programs.
federal investment in the cru- cial Gateway Tunnel project. “The detention of immi-
grant children does nothing to improve security and could have a devastating and last- ing impact on these chil- dren,” Cuomo wrote.
Americans have voted Barack Obama as the best president of their lifetime. The poll – which was undertaken by the Pew Research Center – asked more than 2,000 US cit- izens who they thought had done the best job as president. They were also asked to give a second choice.
Obama was far ahead in the results with 44 per cent voting that he was either the first or second most successful presi- dent in recent history. The cur- rent president, Donald Trump did not fare quite so well, with only 19 per cent vot- ing for him.
In second place, 33 per cent selected Bill Clinton, while 32 per cent chose Ronald Rea- gan. George W. Bush came in fifth place with 14 per cent of those asked selecting him as ei- ther first or second choice.
62 per cent of millennials
(those aged between 22 and 37) put Obama in their top two, while 46 per cent said he was the best. Obama also ranked highly with Generation X (those aged 38 to 53) with 41 per cent of the vote, but he lost out to Reagan who got 45 per cent. As you move up the age groups, Reagan's vote in- creased with the Baby Boomers (54-72) and the Silent Genera- tion (73-90) tending to rank him higher.
President Trump Blames Barack Obama For Russian Cyber Attack On Democratic Email Servers
Thousands Of Protesters March Against Trump In London
Demonstrators protest against the visit of U. S. President Don- ald Trump, in central London, Britain.
Barack Obama The Best
President Trump took another crazy aim at his predecessor Barack Obama for failing to do more in preventing Russia’s cyber attack on Democratic email servers while fanning the flames of a deep web con- spiracy theory.
“The stories you hear about the 12 Russians yester- day took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration,” the President wrote.
His Saturday morning tweet marks the first time he’s addressed the indict- ments of a dozen Russian military officers in a wide- reaching hacking scheme aimed at undermining the 2016 presidential election. The indictment, announced by Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Friday, ac-
President Trump said he'd ask Vladimir Putin about the "meddling" during a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
cuses the operatives of steal- ing and leaking a trove of emails from Democratic Party officials, which sparked widespread backlash over the handling of Sen. Bernie
Sander’s presidential bid and the resignation of chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Obama did privately confront Russian leader Vladimir Putin about the digital attack in September 2016, but Trump asserted that the former President could have done more.
“Why didn’t they do some- thing about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was in- formed by the FBI in Sep- tember, before the Election?” he tweeted.
Trump in his flurry of tweets Saturday morning also referenced an unsourced conspiracy theory gaining traction online.
“Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t the FBI take possession of it? Deep state?”
Protests have kicked off for the second day of Presi- dent Donald Trump’s U. K. visit as thousands of demonstrators rally in cen- tral London and cities around the country.
Today’s gatherings in Lon- don, which organizers said between 200,000 and 300,000 people, will count among more than 60 official protests scheduled for the American leader’s four-day working visit.
Their aim, organizers say, is to voice opposition to Trump’s policies and show that he is not welcome.
British animosity to Trump has been fairly prominent since his election in 2016, and these protests would not be the first — thousands gathered in central London in January of 2017 to protest his travel ban on several ma- jority-Muslim countries.
In the months that fol- lowed, 1.8 million Brits signed a petition to Parlia- ment against a state visit by the president. This week’s sojourn is a working visit rather than a state one, de- spite Trump’s planned meeting with Queen Eliza- beth II.
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