A month before taking office, Helena Moreno is steering the city through a budget crisis and a Border Patrol enforcement operation that has immigrants in hiding.

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Bret Stephens, Frank Bruni and Aaron Retica on the gap between the president’s interests and what matters to Americans.

President Lai Ching-te says the spending, which must be approved by the island’s legislature, would fund purchases of arms from the United States.