We have just identified the process for one agency or one program to be reauthorized. We are talking about 1,100 unauthorized programs that Congress needs to authorize before it appropriates money to them. That is not even including the 325 programs that will need to be reauthorized at the end of this year. We are going to be close to 1,500 programs, and over half of the discretionary budget will go to unauthorized programs.
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It is. There's a lot of issues that president Trump is involved in that I would argue aren't part of the mandate that he was given. Immigration is absolutely clearly part of the mandate that he was given. He has to do it in a legal way…
Well, I think it's part of President Trump's theater or certainly his style, to make a lot of bold claims. And then some of them he will act on, and some of them he will back off of.
President Trump isn't losing political capital with Republicans in Congress, Republicans in the United States, or, frankly, unaffiliated voters in the United States.
The Justice Department is not the president's law firm. The Justice Department seeks justice. The duty of the Justice Department is to the American people and to this country and to the Constitution.
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