President Trump’s Key Immigration Promise on Track

Capitol Hill Moves to Include More than $1 Billion in Funding for the Southern Border Wall The Washington Times is reporting that "Senate Republicans included $1.6 billion for the first installment of President Trump's border wall in the new homeland security spending bill they released Tuesday, keeping the president's marquee immigration promise on track." This spending bill calls for physical barriers and border roads along the U.S.–Mexico border. Click here to read more ------------ As Newt Gingrich writes for Fox News, the President has had a "historic impact on the federal court system [that] will help our nation prosper for decades to come." Gingrich explains how the President is restoring the intended purpose of the federal judiciary — "to uphold the rule of law as outlined in the Constitution." ------------ In East Africa, U.S. airstrikes have killed more than 100 fighters who were "identified by the Pentagon as being affiliated with the Islamic militant group Shabab, continuing a stepped-up pace against targets in Somalia" under the President, according to The New York Times. ------------ Federal prosecutors have upgraded the charges against Sayfullo Saipov, the alleged terrorist who drove a pickup truck into a crowded New York City bike path in October. He now faces a 22-count indictment. See more from The Washington Post here. ------------ On the foreign policy front, Joseph DeTrani writes in an op-ed for The Washington Times about the encouraging signs in Asia following the President's visit to Seoul, South Korea.