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In this March 6, 2018 picture, farmworker Santiago Martinez, of Mexicali, Mexico, picks cabbage before dawn in a field outside of Calexico, Calif. For decades, cross-border commuters have picked lettuce, carrots, broccoli, onions, cauliflower and other vegetables that make California's Imperial Valley &quot;America's Salad Bowl&quot; from December through March. As Trump visits the border for the first time as president on Tuesday, March 13, the harvest is a reminder of how little has changed despite heated rhetoric in Washington. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Amid Trump visit, it’s business as usual for border towns

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

The Budget in Perfect Balance Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

America’s national debt has risen to dangerous levels, and spending must be restrained

By John Ratcliffe and Mark Walker

In this Jan. 21, 2018, file photo, lights shine inside the U.S. Capitol Building as night falls in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Congress to study why it struggles to pass spending bills on time

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

A look at how background checks are conducted for gun buys

By MARTHA BELLISLE - Associated Press

$FILE--In this July 20, 2014, file photo, with guns displayed for sale behind her, a gun store employee helps a customer at Dragonman's, east of Colorado Springs, Colo. Recent mass shootings spurred Congress to try to improve the background check system used during gun purchases, but experts say the system is so fractured that federal legislation being considered in Washington D.C. will do little to help keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous people. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)$

Gun background check system riddled with flaws

By MARTHA BELLISLE - Associated Press

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of California, speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi: Democrats shouldn’t focus on ‘rumors’ about Trump’s ‘personal life’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Rep. Welch: Food box proposal has little chance of passing

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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2017 file photo, former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli speaks during an interview by Maria Bartiromo during her &quot;Mornings with Maria Bartiromo&quot; program on the Fox Business Network, in New York. Shkreli became notorious for raising the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent and trolling critics on the internet with his snarky &quot;Pharma Bro&quot; persona. A federal judge in Brooklyn will have to weigh the conflicting portrayals of Shkreli on Friday, March 9, 2018, at his sentencing on a securities fraud conviction. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Martin Shkreli, ‘Pharma bro,’ gets 7 years in prison for fraud

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

"The actions we are taking today are not a matter of choice; they are a matter of necessity for our security," President Trump said as he signed tariff proclamations. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump announces tariffs on steel, aluminum

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

An attendee at a rally against gun violence holds signs that read "March for Our Lives March 24" and "Take Guns Out of the Equation," Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. The rally was held on the same day Gov. Inslee was scheduled to sign a bill banning the sale and possession of gun bump stocks in the state of Washington. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

States pass gun laws while Congress does little

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz ticks off points on her fingers as she speaks during a news conference at her office in Sunrise, Fla., on Monday, March 5, 2018. The Congresswoman organized a roundtable with federal, state and local officials, community and faith leaders, and gun safety advocates to discuss gun safety. At right is Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Mei-Ling Ho-Shing, at left is Megan Hobson, a survivor of gun violence six years ago. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

House to take up school safety bill after Florida shooting

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

U,S. Capitol Police break chains locking together supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, who were participating in an act of civil disobedience in support of DACA recipients, Monday, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘Dreamers’ turn ire on Democrats as DACA deadline passes

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 21, 2018, photo, lights shine inside the U.S. Capitol Building as night falls in Washington, and Congress continues to negotiate during the federal government shutdown. The deal that ended the government shutdown also further cut taxes, adding billions more to the national deficit. The tax cuts were a little noticed element of the much discussed deal, which provided funding to keep government agencies operating for about three weeks and renewed a popular health insurance program for poor children. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

How Congress funds the military needs to change

By Frederico Bartel

John Brennan. (Associated Press)

John Brennan accuses Trump of Russia ‘paranoia’

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, joined by from left, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., House Budget Committee Chair Diane Black, R-Tenn., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., as he praises the Republican tax bill at an enrollment ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Gun control stalls as cooler heads stand strong

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Wearing &quot;butterfly wings,&quot; supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program hold a tarp with an image of President Donald Trump as they march in support of DACA, Monday, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DACA deadline for US immigrants arrives with less urgency

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Protesters blocked the streets near Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court to support of clean bill to protect DACA recipients. (Associated Press/File)

DACA deadline passes with action in courts, not Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens as Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks during a meeting with members of the National Governors Association in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP News Guide: DACA deadline arrives with diminished urgency

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Pocan says students, corporations leading on gun control

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduces a three-point plan on guns that's supported by the Democratic Caucus, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 1, 2018. Schumer indicated he was surprised at remarks by President Donald Trump yesterday on gun safety in the wake of the student massacre in Parkland, Fla., last month. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: Trump meets with NRA in Oval Office

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