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Cruz Reportedly Considered to Replace Sessions

July 25, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump and his advisers are floating possible replacements for Attorney General Jeff Sessions — and the list includes Senator Ted Cruz,The Washington Post reports. Cruz and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani […]

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Kushner Downplays Russia Collusion in Senate Testimony

July 25, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, said Monday he did not collude with Moscow in the 2016 presidential election, delivering a pair of statements that underlined the mounting pressure on the White […]

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McCain Returning to Senate for Healthcare Bill Vote

July 25, 2017 Focus Washington

Senator John McCain will return to the Senate on Tuesday after being diagnosed with brain cancer, giving the Republicans push to repeal and replace ObamaCare a boost of momentum, The Hill adds. “Senator McCain looks […]

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Attorney General Sessions Ponders Marijuana Crackdown

July 24, 2017 Focus Washington

Criminal justice reform advocates fear Attorney General Jeff Sessions will crack down on marijuana growers, sellers, and users amid the release of task force recommendations due this week, The Hill reports. “The task force revolves […]

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Trump Launches All-out Assault on Mueller Investigation

July 24, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump has launched an all-out assault on the federal investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, reflecting an intensifying obsession with the probe within the West Wing, The Hill reports. As reports emerged […]

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Scaramucci Vows to Stop White House Leaks

July 24, 2017 Focus Washington

New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci made his debut on the Sunday political shows with a vow to end the leaks that have embarrassed President Donald Trump’s administration and revealed a White House roiled […]

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Sanders Reportedly Considering 2020 Presidential Run

July 24, 2017 Focus Washington

Senator Bernie Sanders, who battled Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary and created a revolutionary movement among millennials, is having discussions about running for president again, The Hill reports. “Yes, is the answer,” said […]

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Mexican Politicians Increase Attacks on Trump

July 24, 2017 Focus Washington

An increasing number of political figures in Mexico are attacking the U.S. president to buttress their own political careers, The Hill reports. During a visit to Washington on Monday, Mexican Congressman Braulio Guerra took time […]

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GOP Healthcare Bill Faces Numerous Problems ahead of Senate Vote

July 24, 2017 Focus Washington

Senate Republicans plan to vote this week on revised healthcare reform legislation, but a number of serious problems mean that the chances of getting that bill passed are slim to none, The Hill reports. The […]

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Trump Jr., Manafort Reach Deal with Senate to Avoid Public Hearing Next Week

July 22, 2017 Focus Washington

Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have reached a deal with the Senate Judiciary Committee to avoid appearing at a public hearing next week, lawmakers announced Friday, The Hill reads. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Dianne […]

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Spicer’s Exit Will Not Lift White House Siege as Walls Close in

July 22, 2017 Focus Washington

In a White House under siege, something had to change. Press secretary Sean Spicer’s resignation Friday let off a pressure valve, allowing an administration that is being pummeled on multiple and multiplying fronts the chance, […]

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NY Times Reporter Accuses White Women of Racism

July 22, 2017 Focus Washington

The New York Times is facing blowback on social media after publishing an essay by an African-American reporter who accused white women of racism for not ceding space on city sidewalks to black men. In […]

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Russia Says Trump and Putin May Have Had More Meetings at G-20

July 22, 2017 Focus Washington

President Trump may have held more meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit earlier this month, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published Friday. “They might have met even […]

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Trump Lawyer Denies Legal Team is Discussing Pardons

July 22, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow is pushing back against a Washington Post report saying Trump’s legal team is “discussing the president’s authority to grant pardons.” Sekulow told CBS News that pardons pertaining to the ongoing federal probe into alleged […]

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Senators Heading towards New Healthcare Vote with no Clear Plan

July 21, 2017 Focus Washington

Senators are rushing towards an ObamaCare repeal vote early next week, although they currently lack the votes, The Hill reports. It’s unclear what they will be voting on next week. The two leading options are […]

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Trump Reshuffles Legal Team

July 21, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump is reshuffling his legal team as special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation moves full steam ahead. The developments come one day after Trump suggested an aggressive pushback against his investigators, telling The New York […]

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Sessions Has no Immediate Plans to Resign, but Gets Trump’s Message

July 21, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump’s broadside against Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a New York Times interview this week was no careless accident or slip of the tongue. Instead, the president was sending a message, said a Trump adviser […]

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McCain’s Absence Leaves Big Hole in Senate

July 21, 2017 Focus Washington

The sudden departure of Senator John McCain leaves a giant hole in the middle of the Republican Conference. On defense and foreign policy issues, McCain is among the loudest GOP voices, largely based on his […]

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Tensions between Trump and Mueller Escalate

July 21, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump is ramping up his criticism of Robert Mueller, saying that the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in 2016 election, would cross the line by looking into his finances, The Hill reports. Mueller […]

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Trump Goes Off-script, Fumes about Sessions and Russia Investigation

July 20, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump impressed senators Wednesday with a cogent, engaged pitch on health care that didn’t veer wildly from the script. Within an hour, without seeking advice from his lawyers or his senior aides, Trump […]

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Candidates for Top Trump Administration Jobs Lose Patience with Lengthy Vetting Process

July 20, 2017 Focus Washington

Candidates for top Trump administration jobs are increasingly frustrated by the high cost and huge time commitment required to meet the government’s ethics and conflict-of-interest rules, complicating White House efforts to fill hundreds of crucial […]

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‘Repeal only’ Bill Would Leave 32mn More Uninsured, Congressional Budget Office Says

July 20, 2017 Focus Washington

A legislation that would dismantle large parts of ObamaCare without an immediate replacement would leave 32 million more people uninsured and double premiums over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report Wednesday, […]

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McCain Cancer Diagnosis Looms over Healthcare Talks

July 20, 2017 Focus Washington

News of Senator John McCain’s diagnosis of brain cancer loomed over a previously scheduled meeting on healthcare negotiations on Wednesday night, The Hill reports. Senator James Lankford lead more than a dozen GOP senators in prayer as […]

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Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort to Testify before Senate

July 20, 2017 Focus Washington

Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have been scheduled to testify before the Senate judiciary committee on July 26, the panel announced Wednesday. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is also […]

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Report: Russian Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr. Ready to Testify before Congress

July 19, 2017 Focus Washington

Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met last year with Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign aides says she is ready to testify before Congress, The Hill reads. “I’m ready to clarify the situation behind this mass […]

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Tax Reform Becomes Must-win Issue for White House

July 19, 2017 Focus Washington

The White House has turned its attention to tax reform following President Donald Trump’s effort to undo ObamaCare derailed by opposition from Republican senators. The long-held GOP goal of re-engineering the U.S. tax system has […]

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Tensions Rise between Trump, GOP

July 19, 2017 Focus Washington

Tensions are bubbling over between President Trump and Senate Republicans. White House officials are blaming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for getting stuffed at the goal line on ObamaCare repeal-and-replace legislation, while GOP senators say Trump failed […]

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Trump, Putin Met for Nearly an Hour in Second G20 Meeting

July 19, 2017 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, spoke for a second time on July 7 in a previously undisclosed discussion, the White House confirmed on Tuesday. A senior White House official told CNN […]

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Questions Grow over Ivanka Trump’s Security Clearance

July 19, 2017 Focus Washington

A group of House Democrats want to know if first daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump concealed knowledge of her husband’s meetings with Russian officials when she was applying for a security clearance, The […]

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Former Vice President: ‘I Was Wrong’ about Trump

July 18, 2017 Focus Washington

Former Vice President Al Gore says he’s given up hope that President Trump will “come to his senses” and act on climate issues. Gore on Monday night told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert that his hopes about […]

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