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Donald Trump has had several press officers since taking office in 2017.

His first, Sean Spicer that he will be a contender for the next season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Spicer was followed Anthony Scaramucci, whose last quarrel with the president lasted longer than his job as a press officer in the White House.

Which brings us to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's oldest and most trusted press secretary. In perhaps the least surprising move after the White House, Sanders joins Fox News as a contributor.

She will debut next month on the President's favorite show, Fox & Friends.

She joins several former senior White House communications officials, including:

Sanders will also join his father, Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansaswho is a contributor on the network.

The question in suspense: will she follow in her footsteps and run to the post of governor?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell implores the Democrats not to eliminate the filibuster – a procedural rule that allows the minority party to block or prevent the chamber from voting on a bill or a candidate.

"If the future democrats decide to reduce the Senate to the majority, we would have lost an essential guarantee of the American government", The Kentucky Republican writes in an editorial published in the New York Times. "And – stop me if you've heard this one – they would regret it much earlier than they think. "

This editorial serves as a replica of that of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who urged the Democrats to suppress the buccaneer.

"The Senate is now a place where the most pressing issues facing our country are ignored, as is the will of the American people who overwhelmingly call for action," Reid wrote. "The future of our country is sacrificed at the altar of obstruction".

Democratic activists have put the issue at the forefront of the presidential debate, urging party candidates to commit to eliminating the rule that is an obstacle to their ambitious political proposals.

In 2013, Reid deployed the so-called "nuclear option" and eliminated the filibuster for executive appointments and lower court judges in response to Republican obstruction of appointees. Barack Obama. In 2017, McConnell further limited the power of the minority by removing the buccaneer for Supreme Court candidates, which aimed to undermine the Democrats' blockade.

The disappearance of the systematic obstruction reflects the course, the partisan nature of this political moment. Obama's election inspired a conservative uprising against his presidency. McConnell then insisted that the "most important thing" for congressional Republicans was to make sure he would be a "one-warrant" president. Eight years later, Trump's victory spurred grassroots activists and Liberals determined to remove him from office.

Ezra Levin, co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible, who urges Democrats to adopt such reforms, said the editorial was a sign that McConnell was beginning to fear this tactic.

The economy is booming. There is no risk of recession. Everything is fine. WELL!

Also in the White House: Trump is interested in reducing payroll taxes to promote economic growth in the event of a slowdown.

Somewhere in between, Trump continues to insist that the "only problem" of the US economy is the Federal Reserve. For months, Trump has been attacking Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, a man he has chosen to head the US central bank.

Before a speech by Powell at Jackson Hole on Friday, Trump likened the Fed chairman to a golfer unable to putter and said he had dropped the country.

On Thursday, he returned to the subject, although he has so far avoided directly attacking Powell.

Bernie Sanders On Thursday, the US government proposed the most ambitious plan to avoid a "climate catastrophe" before a visit to Paradise, the Californian city destroyed by a forest fire last year.

The plan Calls for $ 16.3 billion in domestic spending over 10 years and aims to eliminate US carbon emissions by 2050, an objective defined by scientists from the United Nations Panel of Intergovernmental Experts on Climate Change. Sanders said the sprawling proposal, which he compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal economic programs, would create millions of jobs and spur world leaders to work together to fight climate change.

The plan, he says, would be paid by "forcing the fossil fuel industry to pay for its pollution, through litigation, royalties and taxes, and by eliminating federal fossil fuel subsidies."

Green New Deal from Sanders:

• The goal is to reach 100% renewable energy for electricity and transportation, the two major contributors to climate change in the United States, by 2030.
• Complete decarbonization by 2050
• Increase public ownership of electricity companies and make electricity "virtually free" by 2035
• A promise to "end unemployment" by creating 20 million new jobs
• Declare that climate change is a national emergency
• Invest $ 200 billion in the Green Climate Fund for countries to reduce pollution.

Donald Trump's desire to buy Greenland escalated into an international clash this week after abruptly canceling a trip to Denmark, saying the country's prime minister had shown himself "naughty" when he called the idea "a little bit". ;absurd".

A new story is emerging, which could explain the interest aroused by the president's interest in buying the frozen island.

Senator Arkansas Tom Cotton said that he had spoken to the president to buy from Greenland a few months ago and that he had even talked about it at a meeting with the Danish ambassador, according to Talk Business & Politics, who organized an event in Little Rock, where Cotton commented.

"Obviously, the right decision for this country," Cotton told the group's CEO when he asked the question. "You're kidding, but I can reveal to you that several months ago, I met the Danish ambassador to whom I proposed to sell us Greenland. "

"I told the president that you had to buy it too," added Cotton, adding that Trump "heard of me and some other people."

Cotton, a convinced conservative and a close ally of Trump, said the deal was strategic for the United States. Greenland, a Danish-owned autonomous region, has "incalculable" economic potential and is "vital to our national security".

"Anyone who can not see who is blinded by Trump's disturbance," he said.

Read a review of the conversation here.

And more on the line between Trump and Denmark. I bet you have not seen it coming, is not it?

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the new policies of the day. Lauren Gambino, who keeps the blog of the national capital for the day.

This morning begins with a reshuffle of the 2020 race. During the night, Jay Inslee, The Democratic governor of Washington, who has placed climate change at the center of his presidential campaign, has withdrawn from the race after failing to qualify for the third primary debate. The Associated Press reports Inslee planned seek a third term as governor.

Joe Walsh, an Illinois congressman and conservative radio show host, said he "was firm in his decision" to mount a first offer against Trump.

"The only way you prank Donald Trump and beat him is to expose him as a crook," Walsh m said CNN at New Day on Thursday. "And if I did … that's what I would do: I would hit him every day."

Trump is already facing a major challenge, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, but his campaign has not yet generated the enthusiasm to test the president's hold on the Republican party.

Meanwhile, John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor who suspended his presidential campaign last month, announced that he would run for the Senate. Hickenlooper joins a cluttered primary despite saying things like, "I'm not meant to be a senator."

"I've always said that Washington was an ugly place for a guy like me who wants to get things done, but it's not time to leave the table," Hickenlooper said in a video announcing his race in the Senate to face the Republican Party. Cory Gardner holder.

What we're watching today: Trump has a relatively light public schedule, aside from his daily intelligence briefing. At 16:30, it is programmed to Presents Legend of Freedom to Celtic Legend Bob Cousy, who was known for his public stance against racism and segregation in the 1950s.