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Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat whose vituperations against Wall Street have helped push her party to the left, has no official role opposing President Obama’s trade agenda.

She does not sit on the committee where the trade package was written. She has never taken part in negotiations over its legislative language. When Democrats held a news conference after the

House Republicans managed Friday to overcome deep divisions within the party and passed two measures to address the child-migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The bills would provide emergency funding to deal with the crisis, speed the deportations of most border-crossers and rescind President Obama’s authority to decide whether to deport certain illegal immigrants.

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In the fourth quarter of his presidency, without another race to run, Barack Obama has gone to war with what he sees as an out-of-touch, stuck-in-old-thinking Washington liberal elite — Elizabeth Warren’s the most famous member, but AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka and a coterie of Hill Democrats are up there with her. Obama advisers say the president sees Democratic opponents of his trade

House Speaker John A. Boehner warned Thursday that President Obama has amassed a “legacy of lawlessness” during his tenure in office, and said that will only deepen if the White House tries to go it alone on immigration. On Wednesday, the House voted to authorize bringing a lawsuit against Mr. Obama for overstepping his bounds, and the White House responded by saying it not only wasn’t backing