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President Joe Biden’s plan to house migrants in United States hotels is set to cost American taxpayers about $72,000 per border crosser awarded a room, analysis details.

The flow of illegal aliens into the United States is growing so rapidly the Biden administration is preparing to fly them to the Canadian border so as to expedite “processing” them into the country, according to the Washington Post.

Federal officials will utilize the Dallas Convention Center to house up to 3,000 unaccompanied migrant teens to respond to the overwhelming numbers crossing the border. Dallas officials notified city council members to the Department of Health and Human Services’ intent to utilize the convention center to house 15- to 17-year-old unaccompanied migrants for as much as 90 days.

Jen Psaki said Biden continued “pushing” his team to “expedite processing at the border” for the detained unattended minors and release them to vetted sponsors in the United States.

President Joe Biden visited Houston, Texas, on Friday to witness the aftermath of a series of winter storms that crippled the state for several days.

Biden confirmed to reporters at the White House that he wants to travel to Texas next week but only if he can do it “without creating a burden for folks.”

President Joe Biden personally called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday to discuss the severe winter weather crippling power and water infrastructure in the state, according to the White House.

Hollywood unions urged a shut down of film production after authorities deemed Southern California the “most dangerous area in the country”

Environmentalists and the courts are still resisting calls for effective forest management despite mass wildfires in western states.

National Weather Service officials called Hurricane Laura’s expected storm surge “unsurvivable.” The category 4 could push a storm surge as high as 15-20 feet onto the western Louisiana coast and up to 15 feet on the far eastern Texas coast. The surge could go inland as far as 40 miles in some areas, officials warned.

The Trump administration has rejected a request by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for millions of dollars in federal aid to repair damage to buildings and infrastructure destroyed in riots that followed the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day.

A $21 million field hospital in Brooklyn, New York, authorized by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic opened and closed without seeing any patients.

Nancy Pelosi is seeking to “cripple Catholic schools” by cutting off needed funding while subsidizing “illegal aliens and sanctuary cities,” said Catholic League president Bill Donohue Monday.

New York City’s health commissioner rejected an urgent request by the New York Police Department (NYPD) for 500,000 surgical masks as the coronavirus crisis surged, telling a high-ranking police official, “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” according to a report.

“This is one installment of deliveries that will go from FEMA to 15,400 nursing homes across the country,” Pence said.

Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on Congress to provide federal funds to help pay for the funerals of New Yorkers.

Over 2,100 U.S. cities are expecting significant budget shortfalls this year, a testament to the widespread financial woes that the novel coronavirus pandemic and the associated mitigation efforts may trigger, a survey of local officials released Tuesday revealed.

Every state and most U.S. territories are now under a disaster declaration for the first time in American history in a bid to contain the fast-spreading and deadly novel coronavirus pandemic.

Trump challenged reporters at the White House on Monday questioning him about an inspector general report. “Give me the name of the inspector general,” Trump said. “Could there be politics be entered into that?”

President Donald Trump took to social media and criticized Sen. Chuck Schumer on Thursday for complaining about the shortage of medical supplies during the coronavirus crisis.

Gov. Tate Reeves a “one-size-fits-all approach” would be ineffective in Mississippi, calling for a “surgical” approach across cities.

The Army Corps of Engineers is working on 114 projects across 50 states and five territories to bring additional hospital space.

The Army Corps of Engineers is helping New York turn existing facilities into hospital space to help with an expected surge of patients.

“Feel free to call me, the vice president, anybody at the table, anybody in the room, except for the media, don’t call the media,” Trump said on Thursday, as he concluded a live conference call with American governors.

The event will take place at 2:00 p.m. EST.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday at the White House he would invoke the Defense Production Act.

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo praised President Trump’s response efforts to the coronavirus pandemic in New York, saying his team was “on it” and that he was doing the “right thing.”

“I want to send my warm wishes to the great people of Tennessee in the wake of the horrible very vicious tornado that killed 19 people and injured many more,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump’s administration has spent 2019 making significant strides in accomplishing his America First agenda.

White House officials are reportedly preparing a plan for federal intervention in California to save the state from the growing homeless crisis.

Fifty-three people were reportedly killed by mass shootings in America in August while 40,000 were killed by obesity during that same month.

President Donald Trump may be considering moving homeless people in Los Angeles to an unnamed Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA) facility, according to a report Wednesday by the Washington Post

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal authorities said Tuesday they have arrested two former officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the former president of a major disaster relief contractor, accusing them of bribery and fraud in the efforts to restore electricity to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

President Donald Trump appears to be making good on threats to use federal authority to intervene in California’s homelessness crisis, which has made large portions of San Francisco and Los Angeles unhealthy and unsafe.

“We expect that much of the eastern seaboard would be ultimately impacted and some of it very, very severely,” Trump said

The Trump administration is diverting funds from several federal entities to address the ongoing migrant crisis on the U.S. southern border.