Last year, with no public announcement, the administration piloted a mass-separation system in the El Paso area.
After the latest Israeli announcement, however, administration spokesmen said they were withholding judgment.
With the announcement, the administration's effort, presented by the president in early September, appears to be close to a complete failure.
With the announcement, the administration will make good on a promise to Judge Lodge to inform him by May 4 of its decision on how to proceed with the rule.
As they did after the embassy announcement, Trump administration officials said the Golan Heights decision merely recognized reality — something that is necessary for the Israelis and Palestinians to achieve peace.
In today's announcement, the administration says, "the best path … may well be an expedited court-supervised process to extinguish unsustainable liabilities …" Put less delicately, this is a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Though the tragic events in Las Vegas preempted news coverage which lead Vice President Pence to step in for the president to make the White House announcement, the administration is clearly proud of the progress it has been making on this front.
In making the announcement, the administration is finally heeding homeowner advocates and federal auditors who have called for extended forbearance for unemployed homeowners for over a year.
Although there was a disclaimer about possible exceptions in the DHS' original announcement, the administration now seems to have decided in favor of a uniform place-of-celebration rule.
Until the president made his announcement, the administration had been assuming that individuals currently covered by plans marked for cancellation would switch to alternatives offered in government-established exchanges.
