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With just weeks to go to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is pulling funding for TV ads. Mr. Ramaswamy cast the move in a positive light, writing on X that "Presidential TV ad spending is idiotic." Top Biden administration officials are in Mexico on Dec. 27 to address the ongoing border crisis. This comes as two Democratic mayors have spoken out against illegal immigration—with one of them calling for the government to deport illegal immigrants. Former President Donald Trump will be kept on Michigan’s primary election ballot. That's as the state's Supreme Court said on Dec. 27 that it would not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep President Trump off the ballot.