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The administration’s Portland operation kept drawing heat on July 20 as federal officers’ tactics, lack of local consent, and the risk of escalation became the story instead of the law-and-order message. What the White House framed as a show of strength was increasingly landing as a test of federal overreach.
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The administration’s Portland operation kept drawing heat on July 20 as federal officers’ tactics, lack of local consent, and the risk of escalation became the story instead of the law-and-order message. What the White House framed as a show of strength was increasingly landing as a test of federal overreach.
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