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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Ex-foster kids: Abuse was routine
in dismembered teen’s home
Associated Press
GOP leaders: Bill to build wall
will cost up to $15 billion
PHILADELPHIA — Congress will move legislation this year
providing up to $15 billion to build a wall along the Mexican
boundary, Republican leaders said today. But they would not say
how they would prevent the massive project from adding to fed-
eral deficits.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters at a GOP strategy
retreat that they were planning legislation providing $12 billion
to $15 billion for constructing the wall, one of President Donald
Trump’s chief goals. Ryan said the goal is to complete that and
other major bills in 2017, but the leaders offered no details on
how the wall would be paid for, saying they would wait until the
Trump administration proposes legislation.
Trump has repeatedly said Mexico will pay for the wall, but
Mexican leaders oppose it and have said they won’t finance it.
Congress will pay for “the construction of the physical barrier
on the border,” Ryan said.
“We intend to address the wall issue ourselves,” said
McConnell.
Pressed on whether construction would increase federal defi-
cits, Ryan said Republicans are fiscal conservatives. He said
strengthening the economy and replacing President Barack
Obama’s health care system were two of the best ways to bolster
the government’s budget.
“If we’re going to be spending on things like infrastructure,
we’re going to find the fiscal space to pay for that” in a budget
Congress plans to write this spring, Ryan said.
For most Americans, Dow
20,000 carries little benefit
WASHINGTON — While Wall Street celebrates yet another
stock market record — surpassing 20,000 on the Dow Jones
industrial average — many Americans have little reason to cheer.
Despite the spread of 401(k) retirement plans, the wealthiest
10 percent of households own roughly 80 percent of stock market
wealth. The Dow’s 23 percent surge over the past year has bene-
fited mostly investors who were already well-off.
The rising concentration of wealth at the top is one reason why
the economy’s significant gains since the Great Recession ended
7½ years ago haven’t been felt by many Americans. Though the
Dow more than doubled in President Barack Obama’s two terms,
pay growth was stagnant, especially for people without higher
education or high-tech skills. Discontent and anxiety about the
economy’s direction helped fuel President Donald Trump’s elec-
tion victory.
Now, a major challenge for Trump is to help extend the econ-
omy’s gains beyond wealthier households and those in thriving
large metro areas to struggling regions and many rural areas.
Research by Edward Wolff, an economist at New York Uni-
versity, found that the wealthiest 10 percent of households owned
81.4 percent of stock market wealth as of 2013, the most recent
year for which figures are available. The middle 60 percent of
U.S. households owned just 7.7 percent. Those figures include
stocks held in individual retirement plans and 401(k)s as well as
in mutual funds.
Trump’s immigration actions
mark sharp shift in US policy
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging
executive actions tightening border security— and the prospect
of additional measures restricting refugee flows — mark a sharp
shift away from Washington’s elusive efforts to forge compre-
hensive immigration legislation.
“We do not need new laws,” Trump said Wednesday during
remarks at the Department of Homeland Security. “We will work
within the existing system and framework.”
The centerpiece of the measures Trump signed was an order
to jump-start construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border
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Congressional Republicans
prepare to hear from Trump
PHILADELPHIA — Congressional Republicans eager to
deliver are about to find out whether Donald Trump can stay
focused on their goals in his first appearance before them as
president.
Trump will speak today to House and Senate GOP lawmakers
at their annual policy retreat. Despite a rocky start to his admin-
istration — Trump has veered off course to make false claims
about voter fraud and his inaugural crowd size — many law-
makers remain optimistic at the prospect of the work they can do
together. They hope to see a Trump focused on unity and results,
not one veering off-course into conspiracy theories or re-litigat-
ing the election or the inauguration.
Ahead of Trump’s appearance, House Speaker Paul Ryan
sketched out an ambitious agenda to lawmakers including send-
ing Trump a health care repeal bill by March and a rewrite of the
tax code by summer’s end. Also in the first 200 days Congress
will confront paying for Trump’s newly announced border wall,
which Ryan confirmed could cost $8 billion to $14 billion, and
will work on an infrastructure bill that Trump requested be added
to the already packed agenda.
“I’m just so excited we finally have a chance to do this
because we have the House and the Senate and a president who
is with us,” Ryan said Wednesday in an interview on MSNBC,
discussing plans to overhaul the tax code, eliminating loopholes
and lowering corporate rates to 20 percent or even the 15 percent
sought by Trump.
“If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us
a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy, that
is how you take power and money out of Washington and give it
back to the people,” he said.
Is Ivanka Trump Jewish? In
Israel, she has a trump card
PETAH TIKVA, Israel — Is Ivanka Trump really Jewish?
Last summer, Israel’s religious authorities issued a ruling
that raised doubts about her conversion to Judaism. But after her
father was elected president, they have changed their tune, raising
eyebrows among activists who have long lobbied the rabbinical
establishment to be more tolerant toward converts.
President Donald Trump’s daughter converted to Judaism
under a prominent Orthodox rabbi in Manhattan before her 2009
marriage to Jared Kushner, an observant Jew.
In its ruling last July, an Israeli government religious court
rejected the legitimacy of another conversion by the same rabbi.
Although it didn’t directly affect Ivanka Trump, it raised ques-
tions as to whether Israel’s powerful religious establishment
would recognize her as being Jewish.
But in early December, just weeks after Trump’s election vic-
tory, Israel’s chief rabbis said they would work to change the
rules for recognizing conversions performed abroad — and they
singled out Ivanka Trump.
Farm to table: A bit tricky in
winter, but in high demand
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Demand driven by the farm-to-table
movement knows no seasons, so farmers in colder areas of the
country increasingly use greenhouses and similar structures to
meet wintertime demand for local produce.
While crusty snow and ice covers the ground in January in
Vermont, spinach leaves sprout in rows of unfrozen soil inside
a high tunnel — a large enclosure covered by plastic film that is
warmed by the sun and protected from the wind.
“I can never keep up with the spinach demand,” said Joe
Buley, owner of Screamin’ Ridge Farm in Montpelier, who
planted the spinach in November and will sell it in about two
weeks.
This time of year, when vegetables are trucked in from Cal-
ifornia and Mexico, some consumers clamor for fresh local
produce.
“I’m definitely interested in supporting local agriculture,
and I definitely like eating greens in the winter,” said Serena
Matt of Marshfield, Vermont, who paid Bear Roots Farm in
South Barre, Vermont, ahead to get biweekly bundles of produce
that in the winter typically include greens like spinach or baby
kale.
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wall. He also ordered cuts in federal grants for immigrant-pro-
tecting “sanctuary cities” and a boost in the number of border
patrol agents and immigration officers, pending congressional
funding.
Sometime this week, Trump is expected to pause the flow of
all refugees to the U.S. and indefinitely bar those fleeing war-torn
Syria. The president’s upcoming order is also expected to sus-
pend issuing visas for people from several predominantly Mus-
lim countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and
Yemen — for at least 30 days, according to a draft executive
order obtained by The Associated Press.
The actions, less than a week into Trump’s presidency, would
fulfill pledges that animated his candidacy and represent a dra-
matic redirection of U.S. immigration policy. They were cheered
by Republicans allies in Congress, condemned by immigra-
tion advocates and triggered new tension with the Mexican
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Before her torturous death, Grace Packer grew up in a hotbed
of emotional, physical and sexual abuse, according to three chil-
dren fostered by the adoptive mother who now stands charged,
along with her boyfriend, of killing and dismembering the
14-year-old girl as part of a barbaric rape-murder fantasy.
Police say Sara Packer, a former county adoptions supervisor,
watched as her boyfriend, Jacob Sullivan, beat and raped Grace,
who was then bound, gagged and left to die in a sweltering attic.
Returning the next day and finding Grace still alive, Sullivan
strangled her, court documents say. They stored her body in cat
litter for months, then hacked it up and dumped it in a remote area
where hunters found it in October, police said.
In separate interviews with The Associated Press, the now-
grown former foster daughters, all of whom lived with Sara
Packer several years before Grace’s rape and murder, said Sara
abused her adopted daughter and clearly favored Grace’s biolog-
ical brother, who was also adopted.
“Her favorite child, and you could see it plain as day, had
always been Gracie’s brother,” said Jade Tenezaca, now 27. “She
was more demanding on Gracie to be normal. But Gracie is not
normal. Gracie had a learning disability.”
Tenezaca recounted an episode that, in hindsight, seems chill-
ing. Sara was watching the TV crime drama “CSI” once and
casually mentioned that if she ever killed someone, she’d dis-
member the body and burn the pieces to ash, Tenezaca said.
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