The Latest: Congress passes immigrant detention bill, sending Trump the first law he can sign

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Trump is expanding it nationwide for anyone in the country up to two years.
59% : Immigration policy has often been one of the most entrenched issues in Congress, but a crucial faction of politically vulnerable Democrats joined with Republicans to lift the strict proposal to passage on a 263-156 vote tally.
59% : Trump on Tuesday announced the AI joint venture -- the Stargate Project --planned to spend up to $500 billion over four years building data centers with the hope of securing U.S. leadership in the new technology.
57% : Trump promised to clear a regulatory path so the companies involved, Softbank, OpenAI, and Oracle, could move fast.
57% : He will meet with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Trump has issued a wide range of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government in his first days in office His executive orders cover issues that range from trade, immigration and U.S. foreign aid to demographic diversity, civil rights and the hiring of federal workers.
55% : While including the phrase won't directly affect abortion rights, it may have an effect down the line in legal cases related to fetal personhood by "creating a precedent for anti-abortion groups to say, 'Look how many places in the law already recognizes life as beginning at conception,'" Ziegler said.
54% : " White House says with 1,500 troops Trump is fulfilling a campaign pledge "This is something President Trump campaigned on.
51% : U.S. officials confirmed earlier Wednesday that the Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, putting in motion plans Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.
50% : The American people have been waiting for such a time as this--for our Department of Defense to actually implement homeland security seriously," said Press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
47% : Here's the latest: Pentagon has begun deploying troops to the border The Pentagon says it has begun deploying 1,500 troops to help secure the southern border, putting in motion plans Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.
47% : ▶Read more about Trump's actions Trump administration has paused US resettlement of 'Afghan allies,' citing vetting Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a military veteran, told the AP that the Trump administration had intentionally paused the planned U.S. arrival of more than 1,600 Afghans already cleared for resettlement in the United States.
47% : In an email, Flowers said anti-discrimination laws provide safeguards but "equal justice for all demands more than simply the absence of overt bias.
46% : Israel's President Isaac Herzog will be coming to the United Nations on Monday to attend the U.N. commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the Jan. 27, 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp 80 years ago, Danon said.
44% : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to travel to Washington to meet Trump in a few weeks Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Washington to meet newly elected President Donald Trump "in a few weeks.
41% : Trump on Wednesday issued a full pardon for former Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky, who was sentenced in September in the case stemming from the 2020 death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown. Zabavsky was sentenced to four years behind bars for conspiring with another officer Terence Sutton, to hide the reckless pursuit of Hylton-Brown.
41% : "If we don't make a 'deal,' and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.
39% : But fears intensified for some when the Trump administration announced Tuesday it would allow federal immigration agencies to make arrests at schools, churches and hospitals.
38% : Metropolitan police officer Daniel Hodges, who was crushed between doors as rioters grabbed his gas mask and tried to gouge his eyes, said he had been working 12-hour shifts since last week to protect Trump and his supporters during the inauguration.
36% : It was not clear whether Trump planned to grant a reprieve to Sutton as well, as he had indicated he would on Tuesday.
27% : Police officers hurt on Jan. 6 say they are angry and exhausted At an emotional news conference in the Capitol, two police officers who fought rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, said they are angry and exhausted but will continue to speak out after Trump pardoned their attackers.
26% : " Former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn said, "I'm not going away." "They want you to stop talking, but we can't," Dunn said. Trump grants clemency to second Washington police officer involved in deadly chase Shortly after announcing the pardon for former Washington Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Andrew Zabavsky, the White House said Trump had also granted clemency to Terrence Sutton for his involvement in the killing of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown.
24% : Trump is monitoring the shooting at a Nashville school President Donald Trump and his team are monitoring the deadly shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee.
23% : House gives final passage to immigrant detention bill, sending Trump the first law he can sign The House on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that requires the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and violent crimes, marking the first legislation that President Donald Trump can sign as Congress, with some bipartisan support, swiftly moved in line with his plans to crackdown on illegal immigration.
23% : For the many people who've made an enemy of Trump, his return to the presidency this week sparked anxiety.
22% : " Judge says Trump's Jan. 6 pardons 'will not change the truth of what happened' President Donald Trump's mass pardons for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol "will not change the truth of what happened" in the nation's capital four years ago, a federal judge wrote Wednesday as she dismissed one of nearly 1,600 cases stemming from the attack by a mob of Trump supporters.
22% : I think there are a lot of people who are very worried." ▶ Read more about Trump's perceived enemies Does 'fetal personhood' language in executive order offer clues on Trump's abortion approach? Abortion was largely absent from the stack of dozens of executive actions in Trump's first days of office.
17% : ▶Read more about the case Trump pardons Washington police officer sentenced for role in a deadly chase President Donald Trump has pardoned a Washington police officer who was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the deadly chase of a man on a moped and the subsequent cover-up.
16% : Trump is instead canceling ethic rules Trump took office eight years ago pledging to "drain the swamp" and end the domination of Washington influence peddlers.
14% : Less than 24 hours after taking office, Trump fired an opening shot, ordering the revocation of security clearances held by dozens of former intelligence officers he believes sided with Joe Biden in the 2020 campaign or have turned against him.
14% : In a post to his Truth Social site Wednesday, Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to "settle now and stop this ridiculous war.
13% : Musk questions feasibility of big AI project championed by Trump Elon Musk has openly questioned the feasibility of a big AI project that Donald Trump championed in an unusual public break with the president.
10% : Immigrant families worry about sending their kids to school amid Trump crackdown As Trump cracks down on immigrants in the U.S. illegally, some families are wondering if it is safe to send their children to school.
8% : Trump says he is redesignating Yemen Houthis as a terrorist organization The White House says Trump has issued an executive order that sets in motion a process for redesignating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization.
7% : "Anybody who ever disagrees with Trump has to worry about retribution," said John Bolton, who served as Trump's national security adviser and has become a vocal critic of the president.
6% : Donald Trump is remaking the traditional boundaries of Washington, unleashing unprecedented executive orders and daring anyone to stop him Donald Trump is remaking the traditional boundaries of Washington, unleashing unprecedented executive orders and daring anyone to stop him.

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