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Donald Trump dropper å skrive under lov

USAs president Donald Trump avlyser en signering av en boliglov som skulle finne sted onsdag, skriver Reuters.

Lovforslaget hadde bred tverrpolitisk støtte og skulle sørge for raskere bygging av boliger og større tilgang til rimelige boliger.

Trump sier at han ikke vil skrive under lovforslaget før et annet lovforslag, «Save America Act», er vedtatt, som Trump mener det er «desperat behov for», skriver nyhetsbyrået.

«Save America Act» skal gjøre det obligatorisk å vise fram bevis på statsborgerskap når man skal stemme i et valg. Men det er allerede et krav om statsborgerskap for å stemme, og det er sjelden at ikke-statsborgere får stemt, ifølge Bipartisan Policy Center.

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Dette har Senatet forsøkt minst to ganger tidligere, men nå lyktes det med flere "overløpere". (Red.)

US Senate joins House in voting to halt Iran war

(Military Times) The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to halt U.S. military action against Iran, the latest rebuke of the Republican president from an increasingly restive Congress. Read More ----oooo00O00oooo----

: The latest

‘The deep state firings have begun.’ Large-scale cuts underway at the office under Trump’s acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, source says. Declines to give details on number of jobs cut.

Key lines from CNN’s report by Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen and Katie Bo Lillis:

Several political appointees who were considered close to the prior director Tulsi Gabbard were among the first to be fired, multiple sources told CNN. One of the sources said some of those people had already been walked out of the building as of Tuesday.

Sources had previously told CNN that Bill Pulte, Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence in an acting capacity, was looking at cutting hundreds of jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Last week, Pulte showed up to his new job a day early after asking for a list of every employee in the office, sources told CNN, catching even outgoing director Tulsi Gabbard off-guard.