The Patriot Post® · Friday Top Headlines

• Payrolls surge by 304,000, smashing estimates despite government shutdown (CNBC)

• Trump administration officially suspending nuclear treaty with Russia (The Hill)

• White House preps emergency wall plan while Congress negotiates (Politico)

• Pelosi suggests Normandy fence for the border, but not a wall (Washington Examiner)

• Largest-ever U.S. border seizure of fentanyl made in Arizona (Reuters)

• Most 2020 Democrats back an abortion bill just like Virginia’s (National Review)

• Ben Sasse reintroduces Abortion Survivors Act (The Daily Signal)

• Weird: No Democrats in Congress seem to have heard Ralph Northam’s infanticide comments (Hot Air)

• Senate delivers reproach to Trump on Syria withdrawal (National Review)

• Cory Booker launches 2020 campaign for president (The Inquirer)

• Bernie Sanders proposes 77% estate tax for billionaires (Washington Examiner)

• Ilhan Omar calls for sharp tax increases on the wealthy: “We’ve had it as high as 90 percent” (Yahoo News)

• Trump may be about to flip the Ninth Circuit (The Resurgent)

• Going viral: Anti-vaxx propaganda infects Facebook and YouTube results (The Guardian)

• Not humor: “A border wall is immoral,” says political party advocating for infanticide (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Seven topics Trump should address in the State of the Union (The Daily Signal)

• Policy: Sanders’s new estate tax plan is inherently immoral (Washington Examiner)

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