has left a family of five children without their mother. police picked up an illegal border crosser with the rape and murder of 37-year-old rachel moren as their investigation continues. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. rachel was killed along the popular hiking trail in hartford county, maryland. it happened last summer and it has taken all of this time to get us to where we are now. that s 1800 miles away from the closest point of our southern border. the suspect is from el salvador. he has known gang ties. he illegally crossed the border in february of 2023. he allegedly killed a young woman in his home country and a month later he brutally attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion. police arrested him for rachel moren s murder over the weekend in tulsa, oklahoma. more than ten months after her body was found. the hartford county, maryland sheriff said this. he killed a woman in el salvador and why he fled here to come here thro
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week. Government funding expires at midnight Friday, making passage of a.
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the agreement is a reasonable compromise. it provides additional funding for smart, effective border security. it does not fund the president s wall, but it does fund smart border security initiatives that both parties have always supported. including increased security at our ports of entry and humanitarian assistance of the border. the bill itself is more than 1100 pages look dolomite, so lawmakers and other aids or giving it a read. a number of senators sound inclined to support it so far. i will say that based on the examination i have had time to do so far, i think my colleagues on the republican side who were conference and go over this did a pretty good job. the border deal is a good deal. so i hope it passes. i hope it passes the senate and the house and the president signs it. house democratic leaders like majority leader steny hoyer say they are not nervous about having the votes to pass the bill. the house would go after the senate takes action. he does note the wi
lawmakers try to hash out this budget for the government to keep things running. democrats previously asked for the very things trump has now agreed to. there are so many federal workers asking themselves what was all this about? was it wasted time? i think a lot of people are going to be asking that going into the future. this was a very long shutdown and the time for which the government has funded three weeks is less time than the shutdown was for. that casts the scene for what we re heading into in the negotiations. democrats wanted to have negotiations not under the guillotine of the government shutdown. now they have this opening to do that. it is a sticky process to negotiate wall money for other border security initiatives or immigration initiatives. now they have this window and the fact that trust lost this, the cost and stakes for him are higher to shut it down again for