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'Seen, Heard & Whispered': The conversations happening in Washington's power corridors

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Articles by Stephen Dinan

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, talks with President Donald Trump, second from right, as Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, second from left, and Vice President Mike Pence, left, follow as they walks down the steps of the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019, following a lunch. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate votes to overturn Trump’s border wall emergency

Republicans rushed to join Democrats Thursday in rebuking President Trump and his border wall plans, voting to overturn his emergency declaration and prevent him from using some Pentagon money to build new fencing.

March 14, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, March 14, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

GOP senators abandon Trump in border wall fight

Republican senators rushed to distance themselves from President Trump's border wall declaration Thursday, saying that while they agree the immigration situation has grown out of control, they don't want to take money from the Pentagon to pay for his new fence.

March 14, 2019
A man climbs up a section of a U.S.-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

DHS’s return-to-Mexico policy gets slow start

Homeland Security officials revealed Tuesday that 240 migrants have been returned to Mexico to wait while their immigration cases proceed in the U.S., marking a relatively slow start to the Trump administration's newest get-tough policy.

March 12, 2019
Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) outside the Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Democrats announce expanded Dream Act for illegals

House Democrats upped their ante on illegal immigration Tuesday, announcing new legislation that would not only grant legal status to potentially millions of illegal immigrant "Dreamers," but adds hundreds of thousands more migrants to the mix.

March 12, 2019
"Hundreds of man hours are wasted each day at a time of crisis on the border," said the leaders of the National ICE Council in a letter. Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro looks on near where a border wall ends that separates the cities of Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in San Diego. President Donald Trump is expected to speak about funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border during his State of the Union address Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (Associated Press)

Support for Donald Trump dwindles among ICE officers

ICE officers who endorsed President Trump in 2016 now say he has failed to follow through on his get-tough promises, saying catch-and-release of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. is not only still happening, but has gone into "overdrive."

March 11, 2019