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More self-described Democrats are supporting the idea of impeaching President Trump, but their calls do not reflect the nation’s pulse, a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday revealed.

NEW YORK — While he was an official at the Obama State Department, staffer Jonathan M. Winer facilitated a meeting between anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and the senior director of a firm that did extensive pro bono work for the Clinton Global Initiative.

Pro-life leaders in the House and Senate urged the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to end elective abortion coverage in federal employee health insurance plans.

Democrat Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney joined Impeach President Donald Trump protesters Saturday as she declared her support for launching impeachment proceedings in Congress.

Citizens Against Government Waste released its annual Pig Book, which details how Congress approved $15.3 billion in earmarks in 2019.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday for turning the United States into a country that looked more like Russia.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is unsettled by the House Democrats’ decision to hold off pursuing a bill that would have provided members of Congress with a pay raise, tweeting Tuesday a lack of action will result in more corruption in Congress.

WASHINGTON — “This is the only time I am aware of, sir.” “I have not seen that before, sir.” “I’ve never seen that.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden continued to dance around the concept of impeaching President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

NEW YORK — Vice President Joe Biden was documented as being present in the Oval Office for a conversation about the controversial Russia probe between President Obama, disgraced ex-FBI chief James Comey and other senior officials including Obama’s national security advisor, Susan Rice.

NEW YORK — Conflicting testimony and narratives between disgraced former FBI director James B. Comey and former attorney general Loretta E. Lynch raise serious questions not only about who is telling the truth but also about Comey potentially mischaracterizing or even fictionalizing key claims he made about President Trump and the Russia collusion story.

Brazilians demonstrated across the country on Sunday to pressure the country’s Congress into passing a range of reforms put forward by President Jair Bolsonaro.

The best that could be said of Joe McCarthy, and the House Un-American Affairs Committee, is that they actually found some communists.

President Donald Trump is asserting executive privilege against Democrats’ subpoenas issued to three former White House aides. He should prevail in all three cases, though they may need to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Partisan Democrats are

“The Democrats have become known as THE DO NOTHING PARTY!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Comments made by Attorney General William Barr about extraordinary arrangements regarding the original handling of the Russia investigation may take on more significance in light of a previous report showing a high and unusual degree of compartmentalization in the Obama-era intelligence community’s initial intel set up of the Russia probe.

Former Navy SEAL Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), retired Green Beret Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), and Marine veteran Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) will kick off a Republican effort on Wednesday to recruit more Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to Congress in 2020, according to people involved in the initiative.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration reportedly indicated this week that it wants American taxpayers to foot the bill for Taliban expenses incurred during the ongoing peace talks to end the Afghanistan war, but a Democrat-controlled House committee denied the request.

Vice President Mike Pence took the Trump administration’s call on Congress to Wisconsin manufacturing Thursday, pushing passage of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA).

Disgraced ex-FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director turned anti-Trump activist John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence and Trump critic James Clapper are the subjects of a dispute over which top Obama administration officials advocated for the infamous Steele dossier to be utilized as evidence in the Russia collusion investigation.

A military option to solve the political crisis in Venezuela is “always there” because too many rogue actors have established themselves in the country and could jeopardize U.S. security, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News in an interview Monday.

White House Special Counsel Emmet Flood sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr making clear that President Donald Trump is retaining his legal privileges as partisan Democrats escalate their conflict against the president over the Mueller Report.

“If he and his committee aren’t capable of actually asking the attorney general questions themselves and need to staff that out, it seems like a pretty pathetic moment for the chairman of that committee,” Sanders told reporters at the White House on Thursday.

“You know, the letter is a bit snitty and I think it was probably written by one of his staff people,” Barr said during Senate testimony on Wednesday in response to Sen. Richard Blumenthal. 

U.S. Census Bureau Director Dr. Steven Dillingham testifies before Congress on Tuesday on the agency’s preparedness for the 2020 census. The House Oversight hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m. Eastern.

Opponents of President Trump’s United States-Mexico border policies and illegal immigration crackdown efforts are expected to testify before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday.

Democrats will hold a hearing Tuesday on “solving the climate crisis,” drawing down carbon emissions, and building up the American economy. 

Democrats will hold their first congressional hearing on the single-payer, government-run healthcare proposal known as Medicare for All on Tuesday. 

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing on the Fiscal Year 2020 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget on Tuesday.

“Very discriminatory, hard for people to sign on,” Trump said. “Constantly taking people off list. Big complaints from many people.”

Progressive organizations, many financed by billionaire activist George Soros, are working overtime to restore voting rights for Florida’s nearly 1.4 million ex-felons as the nation’s biggest swing state seems poised to play a pivotal electoral role in the 2020 presidential race.

Progressive organizations and the Democratic Party recognize the centrality of Florida for the 2020 presidential election and have been working to deploy a massive ground game to register voters, increase turnout and lobby Floridians against President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump sent a message to Congress on Monday, urging them to return to Washington, DC to fix the country’s immigration laws.

Rob Goldstone, the English publicist who sent Donald Trump Jr. the infamous email claiming Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton, commented on a recent request he received from Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee as well as ongoing attempts to continue the Russia collusion probe.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in a speech Wednesday marking the alliance’s 70th anniversary before a joint session of Congress, asserted that U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that member nations pay their fair share for their defense “is having a real impact” on increasing spending by allies.

Several key Republicans have declared their opposition to President Donald Trump’s order to freeze direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, including the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Relations Committee, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX). These GOP critics offered the same argument as the Democrats, namely that cutting off funds to anti-poverty and law enforcement programs in the “Northern Triangle” countries will make the migrant crisis even worse.