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This story was originally published by CalMatters, nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

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Government agencies are spending billions of dollars to improve wait times at the U.S.-Mexico border, but the checkpoints remain severely clogged — and border communities are hurting. ...

WASHINGTON — Ever feel the full weight of the far-right messaging machine — misinformation and all — come down on you?

Welcome to the new world of one of the Republican Party’s own — Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma.

For the past four months, Lankford has been Senate Republicans lead negotiator on a bipartisan Southern border security bill — a policy Republicans demanded be included in a broader foreign aid package for Ukraine and Israel — that conservatives drove to a screeching halt this week. ...