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Super Bowl matchup: Patriots vs. Falcons B12 ★★ PRICES MAY VARY OUTSIDE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AREA GUSTY STORMS – HIGH 49, LOW 41 MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2017 washingtontimes.com $1 INDONESIA WHITE HOUSE Islamic Trump to meet with foreign leaders State fi nds Rallies senior easy recruits staffers in busy fi rst weekend to in prisons do ‘great things’ Propaganda, food BY DAVE BOYER AND S.A. MILLER lure poor Muslims THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Trump conferred Sunday BY ROWAN SCARBOROUGH with Israel’s prime minister, scheduled THE WASHINGTON TIMES meetings with the leaders of Canada and Mexico and oversaw the swearing-in of The Islamic State is seeking a foothold his senior White House staff , telling them in the prisons of Indonesia, a country with they will do “great things over the next the world’s largest Muslim population and eight years” for America. signifi cant poverty. A day earlier, he visited the CIA to try Those two demographic factors can add to put to rest reports of tension, and he up to a growing number of Islamic extremist and his top aides objected to unfavorable recruits. The population of France is about coverage from the press as they sought 10 percent Muslim, and its prison system has to hit the ground running on his agenda turned into a recruiting station for the Islamic after Mr. Trump’s swearing-in as the na- State and other violent groups. tion’s 45th president on Friday. The Jakarta-based Institute for Policy First up: an executive order easing Analysis of Confl ict is warning in a report that compliance with Obamacare and a halt the government’s attempt to stop in-prison to all Obama administration regulations radicalization is ineff ective. that haven’t been fi nalized — far short One example cited in the report: Prison of the hectic start Mr. Trump promised authorities allowed the Islamic State’s de facto on the campaign trail, when he said that Indonesia leader to operate a cellphone and ASSOCIATED PRESS on his fi rst day in offi ce he would crack website to disseminate jihadi propaganda. TEAMWORK: President Trump leads Chief of Staff Reince Priebus off the stage on Sunday aft er a swearing-in ceremony for down on sanctuary cities, direct immi- Those tools helped him do something else: 30 senior staff members. With Vice President Mike Pence (left ), he gave a pep talk to “prove worthy of this moment in history.” gration agents to enforce the laws more remotely organize a deadly January 2016 rigorously and move to withdraw from attack in downtown Jakarta, authorities say. the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership trade deal. With the Islamic State, also known as ISIL Mr. Trump capped a whirlwind fi rst and ISIS, operating a base in the Middle East Democrats delay Cabinet confi rmations weekend in office Sunday with the and expanding into Afghanistan and Europe, swearing-in of 30 senior White House the U.S. military would be hard-pressed to BY STEPHEN DINAN refused to grant a speedy vote to Rep. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said staff ers. Mr. Trump, joined by Vice Presi- stamp out yet another pop-up stronghold in THE WASHINGTON TIMES Mike Pompeo, picked to lead the CIA. he is confi dent about pushing through dent Mike Pence, gave the new White the multiple islands of Indonesia. Liberal senators are making him sweat whomever Mr. Trump eventually picks House team a pep talk, saying their mis- “The obstacles to eff ective prison man- Donald Trump got off to the slowest for a couple of days, though all sides for the Supreme Court, but he said the sion is “not about ideology.” agement remain overwhelming,” said Sidney start for any president in modern politi- said he will be approved Monday. hurdles now being erected by Demo- “We will prove worthy of this moment Jones, IPAC director and an analyst on South cal history, with just two of his Cabinet Democrats said the delay was partly crats, led by Sen. Charles E. Schumer in history,” Mr. Trump said. “Each and Asia terrorism. “Prisons are overcrowded picks confi rmed so far and Democrats about process but also suggested it was of New York, are unfair. every one of you should be extremely and understaff ed, corruption is rife and inad- poised to make the process even more payback for Republicans’ refusal to vote “Sen. Schumer would even com- equate budgets make it easier for well-funded painful over the next weeks. on President Obama’s Supreme Court plain about not having enough seats in » see TRUMP | A6 extremists to recruit inmates when they can Defense Secretary James N. Mattis pick and for delaying other Obama the hearing room,” Mr. McConnell told off er extra food. No deradicalization program and Homeland Security Secretary John Cabinet picks during the later years of “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. ▶ F. Kelly were approved in fairly easy his administration. Trump’s media honeymoon » see INDONESIA | A21 votes Friday evening, but Democrats Senate Majority Leader Mitch » see CABINET | A8 may be shortest in history. A4 HEALTH CARE CYPRUS Greeks, Turks Trump lifts mandate for Obamacare see glimmer of coverage in symbolic step to repeal BY TOM HOWELL JR. Trump. repeal Obamacare and replace it this hope in island THE WASHINGTON TIMES Though the order has no immediate year with a plan that doles out fi xed tax eff ect — many Obamacare provisions are credits and unleashes market forces to President Trump’s sweeping order written into law, and Mr. Trump’s health entice people into health care coverage reconciliation against Obamacare late Friday appears to care team isn’t in place — congressional rather than relying on a mandate to force give the new administration enough lee- Republicans praised it as a symbolic them into coverage. BY MARINA RIGOU AND IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU way to target the most unpopular aspect step toward offering relief from the Yet repealing the mandate before an SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES of his predecessor’s law — a mandate law’s soaring premiums and dwindling alternative plan is in place could cause requiring Americans to get coverage or choices. Republicans will be using fast- uncertainty for insurers participating NICOSIA, CYPRUS | Hope has become the pay a fi ne, policy analysts said. track budget rules to gut the “individual in the program’s web-based exchanges, watchword here as negotiators make halting The executive order, issued hours mandate” and other parts of the law in analysts said. The mandate is the main progress on reconciling the ethnic Greeks after Mr. Trump was sworn in, also sets the coming weeks. tool to pull healthy people into the mar- and Turks who have divided Cyprus since the stage for selling insurance across “This action demonstrates that Presi- ketplace to balance the costs for sicker the 1970s — one of the world’s longest “frozen state lines and eyes “greater fl exibility dent Trump is committed to fi xing the customers who can no longer be denied confl icts” playing out on this balmy Mediter- to states” in implementing health care damage caused by Obamacare as soon insurance. ranean island. SPECIAL EDITION INSIDE programs, which are key tenets for Re- as possible,” said Sen. John Barrasso, Certain people are exempt from the After more than four decades of frustra- publicans looking to repeal and replace Wyoming Republican. tion, intensive talks between leaders of the TRUMP INAUGURATION the Aff ordable Care Act alongside Mr. Republican leaders say they will » see HEALTH | A8 two communities in recent days have cre- ated a sense of optimism not seen in years, raising hopes of a diplomatic and political DEFENSE breakthrough in a world badly in need of both. “We are facing so many situations of disasters,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Recruitment poses challenge to Trump’s military plans Guterres said after a round of four days of talks in Geneva earlier this month. “We badly BY CARLO MUNOZ meet the demands for soldiers, sailors, Corps, Mark Cancian, senior interna- Marine Corps to 36 infantry battalions need a symbol of hope. I strongly believe THE WASHINGTON TIMES airmen and Marines. tional security adviser at the Center for — more than 200,000 Marines — would Cyprus can be the symbol of hope at the On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump Strategic and International Studies, told put the service at force levels “not seen beginning of 2017.” Manpower, not money, may prove a called for a restoration of force levels The Washington Times. since Vietnam.” Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and bigger challenge to President Trump’s across the services to numbers before a Between the proposed expansions Adding that many new recruits Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci were hopes to rebuild what he calls a “hol- series of “sequestration” cuts to defense of the Army and Marine Corps, Mr. “would be quite a struggle,” Mr. Can- briefed again over the weekend on progress lowed-out” U.S. military. spending, including a 540,000-member Trump’s plan would present the big- cian said. at a two-day gathering of deputies last week While much of the debate is over Army, backed by a 350-ship Navy and gest challenge for the Marines, said One small sign of the challenge in Mont-Pelerin, Switzerland. Negotiators how the administration will pay for an Air Force of 1,200 fi ghter aircraft. Mr. Cancian. ahead came with the announcement are trying to produce a report that prepares its ambitious defense buildup, an The increases to the Navy and Air Mr. Trump’s plan for the Army this month that the Army was off ering the way for a meeting of Cypriot leaders and equally large question mark looms Force would likely result in a small would put the service’s total force on soldiers who have the option of leaving the foreign ministers of Greece, Turkey and over whether Mr.

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