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Lawmakers are raising separation-of-powers concerns as the White House seeks to install a Justice Department official at the legislative-branch institution.
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We speak with Congressmember Bonnie Watson Coleman, one of three Democratic lawmakers the Department of Homeland Security has threatened to arrest after they went Friday to inspect a newly reopened private ICE jail. They are accused of assaulting ICE officers. This comes after federal agents arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on trespassing charges after he joined their congressional delegation. The response of Trump officials has been to "lie and to deflect and to try to create legitimacy for illegitimate things that they are doing," says Watson Coleman.
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Senators expressed concern with a military budget they said was far too scant, and one objected to the plan's gutting of vital programs, including one that offers home heating assistance for the poor.
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