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| Happy hump day, OnPolitics readers! |
| It's official: Bipartisan police reform is dead. |
| After months of meetings, the bipartisan group of lawmakers who had been negotiating on police reform emerge with no deal, USA TODAY congressional reporter Savannah Behrmann reports. |
| Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill: The House voted Tuesday night to fund the government into early December, suspend the federal debt limit and provide disaster and refugee aid, setting up a high-stakes showdown with Republicans who oppose the package despite the prospects of a looming fiscal crisis. |
| It's Amy and Mabinty, with the day's top news. |
A swift investigation on Haitian migrants |
| Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas vowed a swift investigation into the treatment of Haitian migrants on the Texas border by agents on horseback, telling a House panel that the inquiry would be completed within days. |
| What has he done so far? Mayorkas told the House Homeland Security Committee that an undisclosed number of agents had been placed on administrative duty as investigators examine confrontations in which some mounted agents appeared to use their reins as whips against migrants who have been surging into Del Rio, Texas. |
| "I want to assure you that we are addressing this with tremendous speed and tremendous force," Mayorkas said. "The facts will drive the action we take." |
| Why does CBP use agents on horseback? "Mounted Guards," or inspectors who patrolled the southern border of the U.S. on horseback, were employed under the now-defunct U.S. Immigration Service as early as 1904. Read more from USA TODAY's Chelsey Cox. |
Real quick: Stories you'll want to read |
| • | Liz Cheney v. Trump: Former President Donald Trump still casts a long shadow over the GOP – nowhere perhaps as long as in Wyoming, where Rep. Liz Cheney is fighting to keep her seat even as her anti-Trump message turns off some voters. | | • | Democrats sour on the Supreme Court: Democratic support for the Supreme Court plummeted over the summer, according to a poll released Wednesday that was conducted in the wake of a controversial decision allowing Texas to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. | | • | 'Playing with fire': The Senate is on a collision course with the House over funding the federal government and increasing the country's ability to borrow, with the deadline for a funding decision a little over a week away. | | • | The abortion fight continues: The landscape for ending pregnancy in Florida could change dramatically as the abortion battle intensifies. | | • | Kiss and make up: President Joe Biden and France's Emmanuel Macron took steps on Wednesday to repair their extraordinary diplomatic rift over a U.S. defense pact with Australia. | |
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Trump sues niece and The New York Times over tax records |
| Former President Donald Trump is suing his niece and The New York Times for $100 million over what he claims was "an insidious plot" to obtain his tax records. |
| The lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court in Dutchess County alleges that Times journalists "relentlessly sought out his niece, Mary L. Trump" to convince her to retrieve the former president's tax records out of her attorney's office. |
| Why hasn't Trump released his tax returns? Trump's taxes have been a source of questions since the earliest days of his 2016 presidential campaign. He broke with tradition among major party candidates and did not disclose his tax returns, claiming he could not release them because of an audit. |
| Did you know? President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on this day in 1862. - Amy and Mabinty |
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