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Sept. 1, 2017 / 1:38 PM

Watch live: Sarah Sanders gives daily press briefing

Sept. 1 (UPI) -- White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was scheduled to give an on-camera White House press briefing Friday.

She is set to answer questions from reporters at 2:30 p.m.

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The briefing comes as the Trump administration monitors the devastation in coastal Texas from Hurricane Harvey.

Sanders is likely to face questions about whether President Donald Trump will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that allows young undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States.

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