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[jwp-video n=”1″] The president, senior White House aides and outside surrogates for weeks have been gearing up for a Senate trial after concluding House Democrats would, as they did Wednesday
On Jan. 1, 2019, Trump’s job rating was 43 percent approve and 52 percent disapprove, according to RCP.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Marie Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who had worked previously in Russia, Armenia and Somalia, told of being called back as the ambassador to Ukraine
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[jwp-video n=”1″] The publication’s eyebrow-raising editorial is at odds with its evangelical readers, most of whom are staunch supporters of the president it wants kicked out of the Oval Office
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House Resolution 6 created a new clause in the Code of Official Conduct — set to take effect Jan. 1, 2020 — that prohibits members, delegates, the resident commissioner, officers and employees of the House
[jwp-video n=”1″] Separately, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said it requested records Dec. 13 from the Interior Department for all licenses to import argali sheep granted
[jwp-video n=”1″] Trump’s signatures on the fiscal 2020 spending bills end months of back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats over how best to divvy up this year’s discretionary funding
[jwp-video n=”1″] The bill, which the House Ways and Means Committee approved this month on a mostly party-line vote of 24-17, is unlikely to get anywhere in the Republican-controlled Senate.
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Ethics panel found that the Washington Republican provided inappropriate compensation for consultant services from 2012 to 2017.
Commerce Department officials initially requested about $5.3 billion in new Census Bureau appropriations for the 2020 count, relying on $1 billion in carryover funds as part of a $6.2 billion funding
[jwp-video n=”1″] But that’s not how the conversation went, Debbie Dingell said on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday. “I didn’t call him. He called me, to tell me he was lowering the flags.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Earlier in the morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized House Democrats’ effort as a “toxic new precedent.”
[jwp-video n=”1″] “What’s going on, where have you been?” the Indiana Republican quipped. “I’ve been looking for you, actually,” the reporter responded.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Pentagon recalcitrance House aides said in July that Defense Department officials had expressed extreme reluctance to begin reviewing all their forms, which number in the thousands
[jwp-video n=”1″] Van Drew told the president he will have the new GOP member’s undying support. That promoted the newly impeached Trump to endorse Van Drew in his reelection bid.