Trump in Kansas. 'Radical policies.' Finding peace. Legal status on hold.

By Morgan Chilson | senior reporter

PARK CITY — President Donald Trump on Monday defended U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall’s record and blamed judges and state law for the senator’s practice of suing and arresting patients in medical debt cases when he was a physician.

The president campaigned for Marshall and other Republican candidates in a visit to Kansas in-between Alaska and the Carolinas. Marshall, R-Kansas, is running for reelection against a Kansas City-area pastor, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, who is a Democrat. Also in the race is David Graham, a Libertarian from Overland Park.

Trump spent the first 20 minutes of his roughly one-hour-and-40-minute speech with scant mention of Kansas, Marshall or Hamilton, taking a few moments to call Marshall’s opponent a “bad person” and a “disgrace” while focusing on the Michigan Senate race and condemning other Senate Democrats. Throughout his speech, protestors interrupted him at least five times while Trump reiterated Republican priorities going into the midterm elections: secure borders, a stronger military and lower costs.

TOPEKA — President Donald Trump renewed during a Kansas political rally a promise to send $5,000 to every adult citizen of the United States if Republicans retained control of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.

“If the Republicans win, you each will have $5,000 in your pocket,” Trump said. “The only caveat on the $5,000 is that the Trump dividend, you must spend the money in the United States of America.”

He said the cost to the federal government would be “approximately $1 trillion,” but the obligation would be paid with revenue from a “record-setting $22.2 trillion that’s being invested in the United States right now.” He has mentioned use of tariff revenue to pay the bonuses.

TOPEKA — Democratic U.S. House candidate Lauren Reinhold says she has found a way to connect with disaffected Republicans and independent voters.

She has traveled more than 35,000 miles as she campaigns in the 1st District, which thanks to GOP gerrymandering now stretches from her home in Lawrence to the western half of the state. Reinhold is running against Republican Rep. Tracey Mann, a three-term incumbent who won by 39 percentage points just two years ago.

But, Reinhold said on the Kansas Reflector podcast, a lot has changed in two years. People in the district are hurt economically and “fed up with some of the radical policies” of President Donald Trump’s administration, she said.

By Rebecca Phillips

I recently was listening to that song from the past where the singer proclaims: "Love is a battlefield."

The song got me thinking about how we fight our own personal battles and then there are much larger battles — in our cities, in our state and in our nation. Then there are battles in our world. It's just gotten to be too much, hasn't it? We are fighting, we are drinking our coffee, then we fight some more. We are tired and we feel like giving up.

WASHINGTON — Immigrants living in the United States with humanitarian status from Ukraine and Sudan will retain their deportation protections and work authorizations for now, the Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend. 

More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese with Temporary Protected Status will keep their protections until “such an announcement is made,” the agency said.

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