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National Guard needed at border: Arizona governor
“The announcement by President Trump to call up the National Guard to support the mission of the Border Patrol is needed and welcomed,” Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) writes in USA Today. Governor Ducey adds, “For those living with the consequences of Washington’s failures, border security isn’t a political issue, it’s a personal one.”
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“Russian oligarchs lost $16 billion after President Trump imposed sanctions on Russian entities last week,” Katelyn Caralle reports for the Washington Examiner. Caralle explains that President Trump “took an aggressive stance against Russia on Friday by imposing sweeping sanctions against these oligarchs, government officials, and companies that are members of Putin’s inner circle.”
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In Townhall, Ken Blackwell reminds us that Justice Neil Gorsuch is celebrating his first anniversary on the Supreme Court bench today. “President Donald Trump and his supporters should celebrate as well, because in Gorsuch, Trump kept one of his core campaign promises to the American people,” Blackwell writes.
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“Gorsuch has proven himself to be precisely the type of person President Trump pledged he would nominate to the bench, someone in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia: an impartial judge who applies laws as they are written and shows an abiding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Constitution,” former Attorney General Edwin Meese III writes in RealClearPolitics.
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“The president’s decision to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo as the next secretary of state is wise and timely,” a group of policy experts from the Heritage Foundation writes in The Daily Signal. “Pompeo grasps the complex nuances of the national security challenges America faces around the globe.”
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