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Good morning.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Keeping his friends close.

President Trump has strained relations with a lot of people, but one group has never really wavered in its support: the leaders of the conservative movement.

The White House has worked hard at cultivating and strengthening those ties, recognizing that it can’t afford to alienate a constituency that speaks for 36 percent of the electorate, according to Gallup.

On Wednesday, the president gave his base something else to cheer about, embracing a proposal to halve legal immigration to the U.S. within a decade. Democrats and some Republicans quickly criticized the move.

Discussion of the plan led to a fiery exchange between reporters and Stephen Miller, a policy adviser, at the White House news briefing. Watch it here.