Trump to send National Guard to US-Mexico border

“President Trump has ordered the National Guard to secure the U.S.-Mexico border in the absence of congressional action on immigration,” Sarah Westwood reports for the Washington Examiner.

“The president has directed that the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security work together with our government to deploy the National Guard to our Southwest border to assist the border patrol,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told reporters at the White House.

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In The Columbus Dispatch, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta shares that “since President Donald Trump’s election, American job creators have added nearly 3 million jobs, including more than 50,000 here in Ohio.” Secretary Acosta adds that “the president’s bold infrastructure proposal promises to create even more jobs.”

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“The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign against North Korea is working,” Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs writes in The Hill. Heinrichs notes that President Trump “choosing John Bolton to lead his National Security Council just as preparations are being made leading up to the talks is a masterstroke.”

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In The Detroit News, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams writes that with President Trump’s new opioid initiative, the President “is providing the leadership necessary to make serious headway in this battle.” The Surgeon General explains that President Trump’s announcement “marks a significant moment in our national effort to reverse the deadly trends we have seen for the past several years, and a recognition that communities all across America are suffering from this crisis.”