On Thursday’s “The Right Squad,” the panel discussed border czar Tom Homan’s ability to negotiate with local leaders in Minnesota to keep President Trump’s mass deportation operation on track.
The U.S. and Russia are closing in on a deal to continue to observe the expiring New START arms control treaty beyond its expiration on Thursday, three sources familiar with those talks tell Axios. - Two of the sources cautioned that the draft plan still needed approval from both presidents. An additional source confirmed that negotiations had been taking place over the past 24 hours in Abu Dhabi, but not that an agreement had been reached. Why it matters: New START is the last major guardrail constraining the nuclear arsenals of the two countries that together hold some 85% of the world's warheads. Driving the news: President Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiated on New START with Russian officials on the sidelines…
President Trump on Thursday morning will give a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, an event that brings together a bipartisan coalition of politicians and other U.S. and international leaders. Trump's remarks come as the president has signaled that his administration could take a "softer" tone on immigration enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has faced mounting scrutiny in recent weeks after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in separate incidents in Minneapolis, sparking calls for reform within the agency from many Democrats. His foreign policy agenda — including revamped talks of acquiring Greenland, the recent capture and ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, creation of the Gaza "Board of…