Rep. Michael McCaul said Sunday that the U.S. should put more pressure on Russia and force Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to its war with Ukraine.
The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed after crossing the border in its deportation statistics, a change that will put it closer to its goal of one million deportations a year. Why it matters: Republicans fumed that former President Obama was "cooking the books" when he used the same playbook to tout record deportations during his administration. - White House Border Czar Tom Homan told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that Trump will count deportations by combining work from ICE in the country's interior with Customs and Border Protection's quicker returns of people crossing at the borders. - "Deportations are over 800,000, counting the Border Patrol too. We're trying to do the same thing we did…