3 Stories You Should Read 1/30/2019: Troop Deployment, Intelligence Chiefs, Anti-poverty
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In the category of: While you weren’t watching.
‘Several Thousand’ Additional Troops To Deploy To Southern Border
The new batch of troops could raise the total to more than 4,300.
The U.S. is set to deploy thousands of additional troops to the southern border, acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan announced on Tuesday.
In an off-camera press briefing, Shanahan told reporters that “several thousand” soldiers would be ordered to deploy in response to a Department of Homeland Security request. He did not specify an exact number.
“Most recently, DHS has asked us to support them in additional concertina wire, and then expanded surveillance capability,” Shanahan said, according to a transcript of the conference. “And we’ve responded with, you know, ‘Here’s how many people it would take, and this is the timing we’d be able ― timing and mix of the people to support that.’”
In the category of: It’s getting lonelier at the top.
Trump chastises intel chiefs after they contradict him on Iran and claims of foreign policy success
In the category of: Talking Points on Poverty
5 anti-poverty plans from 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, explained
Forget the horse race — here’s how 2020 Democrats want to fight poverty.
Presidential campaigns are not usually about poverty. It’s a neglected issue, not least because most voters, even in Democratic primaries, live above the poverty threshold, and so economic policy tends to be discussed in terms of helping the “middle class” or “American families,” not the poorest of the poor.
2020 is shaping up to be a little different. Several Democratic presidential candidates have coalesced on a distinctive approach to fighting poverty — transferring people money — and are including it as part of bigger proposals that help poor and middle-class people alike, ensuring that these ideas have a more prominent spot in the campaign than past anti-poverty plans have had.
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