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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., confers with aides off the Senate floor during a series of procedural votes on a bipartisan immigration deal, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: White House blasts Democrats over immigration

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Colorado Editorial Roundup

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Recent editorials from Texas newspapers

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The President's FY19 Budget is on display after arriving on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: President Trump’s budget looks a lot like a budget by Barack Obama

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Migrant Investment Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why Congress must reform immigration

By Brian McNicoll

Trump budget looks like an Obama budget

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2018 file photo, Larry Nassar, former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts, appears in Eaton County Court in Charlotte, Mich. USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee and Michigan State University have responded to initial inquiries from Congress regarding their handling of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. A Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over the health and safety of athletes made the institutions' answers public on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)

USA Gymnastics: There are no other non-disclosure agreements

By DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

This Jan. 22, 2018, file photo shows Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney talking during a television interview outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Mick Mulvaney: Rep. Mulvaney ‘probably’ would not support president’s budget

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with members the National Sheriffs' Association and others in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump pitches border security to nation’s sheriffs: ‘We want securing the border and a wall’

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

The President's FY19 Budget is on display after arriving on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Agency-by-agency highlights of Trump’s 2019 budget

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The Capitol Dome of the Capitol Building at sunrise, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, in Washington. The Senate is ready for a showdown debate over immigration, including whether to protect young &quot;Dreamers&quot; from deportation, in an election-year battle that's sure to electrify both parties' most fervent voters and could well end in stalemate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Congress takes on immigration issue amid election pressures

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

The Capitol Dome of the Capitol Building at sunrise, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, in Washington. The Senate is ready for a showdown debate over immigration, including whether to protect young &quot;Dreamers&quot; from deportation, in an election-year battle that's sure to electrify both parties' most fervent voters and could well end in stalemate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Latest: Senate votes to begin immigration debate

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Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: End Congress-pharma collusion

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this July 20, 2013 file photo, a plant that produces ethanol is next to a cornfield near Coon Rapids, Iowa. For decades, a presidential candidate&#8217;s chances in Iowa were wounded if not doomed unless he embraced federal support for ethanol, a now flourishing component to Iowa&#8217;s economy in this corn-growing state. That immutable rule collapsed resoundingly early in the last campaign when five of the six top Republican candidates largely renounced a decades-old ethanol tax credit. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Ethanol mandate threatens jobs, could raise prices at pumps, oil refiners say

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 8, 2017, file photo, Steph Gaspar, a volunteer outreach worker with The Hand Up Project, an addiction and homeless advocacy group, cleans up needles used for drug injection that were found at a homeless encampment in Everett, Wash. The U.S. Centers of Diseases Control and Prevention says 42,000 people died of overdoses in 2016 from opioids, a class of drug that includes powerful prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and Vicodin; illegal heroin; and fentanyl, a strong synthetic drug sold both through prescriptions and on the street. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Donald Trump seeks billions for opioids fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Capitol Dome of the Capitol Building at sunrise, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, in Washington. The Senate is ready for a showdown debate over immigration, including whether to protect young &quot;Dreamers&quot; from deportation, in an election-year battle that's sure to electrify both parties' most fervent voters and could well end in stalemate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump support vital as Congress tackles immigration issue

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Allan J. Lichtman, professor of history, American University

Allan Lichtman sees no politics for Donald Trump impeachment

By James Varney - The Washington Times

File- This Jan. 22, 2018, file photo shows Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney talking during a television interview outside the White House in Washington. Mulvaney, the former tea party congressman who runs the White House budget office, said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, that Trump’s new budget, if implemented, would tame the deficit over time, though unlike last year’s submission, it wouldn’t promise to balance the federal ledger eventually. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump budget plan already outdated after budget deal

By ANDREW TAYLOR and MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump smiles as he is introduced to speak to U.S. military troops and their families at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Saturday, May 27, 2017, in Sigonella, Italy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump to propose new budget to undo some of spending increase

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times