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During his first term, Trump repeatedly tried to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, decrying their deployment there as a costly-but-useless foreign intervention.

The 8-foot-high, 2.2-mile enclosure fence, which was decried as inhumane by animal rights activists but supported by cattle ranchers, will be removed along with all temporary water systems.

Activists in Los Angeles and Chicago decried Mr. Trump’s abortion and immigration policies and vowed to descend on Washington to protest his inauguration in January.

I asked the four if creating a super PAC — long decried by good government types as befouling democracy — violated their values.

But at a Dec. 7 council meeting, employees of the medical offices turned out to decry the project, saying they already felt unsafe because of the number of homeless people in the area.