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<i>The Atlantic</i> Politics & Policy Daily: Et Tu, Kelly?

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly told lawmakers that the U.S. will never build President Trump’s proposed border wall and that some of his campaign promises were “uninformed.”
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Republicans to vote on a stopgap proposal to fund the government for another month on Thursday. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly lawmakers that the U.S. will never build President Trump’s proposed border wall, and that some of his campaign promises were “uninformed.” During an interview with that Russia is hindering U.S. efforts to negotiate with North Korea, and that Pyongyang is getting “closer every day” to being capable of shooting a missile that would reach the U.S. In a speech on the Senate floor, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake Trump’s attacks on the media to the rhetoric of the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. North and South Korea to march together under one flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month.

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