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The Biden White House is working hard to press House Republicans to pass the border legislation they once demanded but Speaker Johnson has now rejected as “dead on arrival,” and they’re taking a variety of different steps to pound their points home. Republicans tried to incinerate President Barack Obama in the final years of his tenure by blasting his “I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone,” remarks he used to threatened executive orders if Congress did not give him what he needed. But now, Republican lawmakers are literally demanding President Biden issue executive orders, so they don’t have t…