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Trump beefed with Australia over refugees, the National Prayer Breakfast focused on threats to faith, liberal cities clashed with conservative states, and more.
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‘This Dumb Deal’: That’s how President Trump referred on Twitter to the U.S. agreement with Australia to accept 1,250 refugees from an offshore Australian detention center. The tweet last night came shortly after a report from The Washington Post that Trump’s call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had turned heated on Saturday when Trump threatened to break the agreement—in addition to insulting Turnbull and boasting about his Electoral College victory. The future of the deal is , and the strange choice to pick a fight with a close ally .

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