President Donald Trump is praising the man he appointed to serve as acting attorney general, privately telling associates that Matthew Whitaker has shown “courage” in the face of legal challenges posed by Democrats to his appointment, according to a report in Axios.

Citing a source close to the president, Axios reports that Trump likes that Whitaker is standing up for himself.

“Clearly what he likes about him is he’s holding his ground, not running for the tall grass,” the source close to the president told Axios. “You can’t be attorney general if you have to walk away from really important work that an attorney general should be doing.” …Read More at The Hill

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Exhausted migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers napped on mattresses in a converted municipal gymnasium, while men played soccer and exchanged banter on a crowded, adjoining courtyard. A woman dabbed her crying, naked toddler with a moist cloth.

Nearly 2,000 caravan migrants had reached the U.S. border in Mexico’s northwestern corner by Thursday, with more coming in a steady trickle of buses. The city of Tijuana, with its privately run shelters operating well above their capacity of 700, opened the gymnasium and gated sport complex for up to 1,000 migrants, with a potential to expand to 3,000.

With U.S. border inspectors processing only about 100 asylum claims a day at the main border crossing with San Diego, prospects grew that migrants would be stuck waiting in Tijuana for months… Read More at The Washington Times

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President Donald Trump and congressional leaders have sounded optimistic about their ability to strike a deal to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure, but advisers to the White House warn that Democrats are trying to spring a gas tax trap on the president to sabotage his 2020 re-election bid.

Trump and congressional leaders emerged from the midterm elections, in which Democrats seized control of the House, saying a massive infrastructure program topped the list of issues where they could find common ground in a divided government.

Talk around Washington quickly turned to raising the federal gasoline tax as a go-to fountain of funding for roads, bridges and transit projects… Read More at The Washington Times

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