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The pattern of spending appears to suggest a hope or an expectation that the numbers will be replenished later, assuming that growth will pick up.

Since assuming office, the president has touted plummeting numbers of border crossings and record arrests under his administration.

Since assuming office, the president has drastically reduced illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border to historically low levels.

Tuchel, perhaps understandably, made 10 changes for the friendly with Senegal, but there are few decisions he has taken since assuming control that can be described as successful.

The “Meg” movies make the classic mistake of assuming that, just because audiences are into shark horror, they’ll stand for whatever putrid pigswill these films call a narrative.