West Wing Reads Kim Kardashian West Returns to White House for Prisoner Reentry Event

Kim Kardashian West Returns to White House for Prisoner Reentry Event “Kim Kardashian West, who was a driving force behind the commutation of Alice Johnson, returned to the White House to speak at an event promoting the hiring of prisoners released early under the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law President Trump signed into law in December,” CBS reports. “These people want to work. They want the best outcome,” Kardashian West said. “I'm so happy to announce today that we have a ride-share partnership where formerly incarcerated people will be gifted gift cards so that they can get rides to and from job [interviews], to and from jobs, family members.” She then thanked President Trump for his “compassion” and dedication to criminal justice reform during the past year. Click here to read more. “When President Trump took office, small businesses and hard-working, middle-class families were finding it increasingly difficult to afford health insurance,” writes Brian Blase, special assistant to the president at the National Economic Council, in CNN Business. “A new Trump administration rule will provide an estimated 800,000 businesses a better way to offer coverage and millions of workers a better way to obtain coverage, through the expansion of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs).” “President Trump’s detractors are trying to play down the significance of the U.S.-Mexico immigration deal, saying it is largely comprised of actions that Mexico had already agreed to many months ago. Nice try,” American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Marc Thiessen writes in The Washington Post. “If Mexico had truly agreed to implement many of these measures in December, then why had they not been implemented six months later? As even Mexican officials acknowledge, it was Trump’s threat of tariffs that forced Mexico’s hand.” “While many immigrants who come here illegally are simply looking for better lives for themselves and their families, the consequences for legal citizens are often deleterious. Illegal immigration has a devastating impact on low-wage workers whose employers give them their jobs,” The Boston Herald editorial board writes. “Elected leaders must do more to dissuade foreigners from coming to the United States illegally and persuade them to enter legally. They must also support law enforcement in border security efforts and stop incentivizing illegal immigration with the prospect of amnesty.” “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday charged Iran with responsibility for the attack earlier in the day on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes. “The unavoidable fact is that Iran remains the primary threat to stability in the Middle East. The U.S. is right to be there, in force and prepared to defend the interests of itself and its allies.”