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The Afghanistan military is getting more than three times the American taxpayer funding than the construction of a wall on the United States-Mexico border, thanks to a Republican-Democrat spending package.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday evening wouldn’t commit to delivering two approved articles of impeachment to the Senate amid Democrat worries that Senate Republicans will move swiftly to acquit President Donald Trump. 

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily for an exclusive interview to discuss President Donald Trump’s letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasting the impeachment process. She described impeachment as a desperate Democrat effort to overturn the 2016 election because they know President Trump is likely to win reelection in 2020.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) claimed Tuesday afternoon to be an “impartial juror” after a reporter asked him whether he and fellow Democrats could live up to the standard they had set for Republicans.

(UPI) — Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats want to hear from four administration officials during the Senate’s forthcoming impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

Republicans should not become Democrats’ accomplices in killing the Constitution. The Senate should vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CBS’ “Late Show,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) stated that the Senate seems to have a philosophy of “see no evil, hear no evil, do a lot of evil,” on impeachment. Schiff said, “So,

If the House passes Articles of Impeachment against Trump, setting up a U.S. Senate trial, there is no guarantee Democrats will be unified behind convicting him.

There are common threads, associations and even funding sources that link the narrative involving allegations at the center of the current impeachment drive to discredited claims of collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Many of those ties involve characters who played central roles in disseminating the infamous dossier.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) responded to President Trump’s reaction to her departure from the Democrat 2020 presidential primary race, promising to see him at his impeachment trial in the Senate.

Iowa Republican Party Chairman Jeff Kaufmann told Breitbart News in a statement Tuesday that Iowa Democrat Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield will need a “backbone” to run for the U.S. Senate.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is rejecting Republican requests for him to testify before the Judiciary Committee, denying that he is a “fact” witness in the Democrats’ controversial impeachment probe.

Conservative radio icon Mark Levin on Sunday called Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp “another” Mitt Romney and said that Kemp is “about to appoint a RINO” — business executive Kelly Loeffler — to the Senate while trashing conservatives such as Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp will likely tap business executive Kelly Loeffler to the U.S. Senate despite strong criticism from his conservative base over Loeffler’s affiliation with Planned Parenthood, Stacey Abrams, and establishment Republicans, according to a report released Friday.

During an interview broadcast on Friday’s “CNN Tonight,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stated that he believes President Trump should be impeached and that he hopes the Senate remembers “this is a moment when their record is going to go down in history as to whether they played it by the rules.”

The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday, sending the funding measure to President Donald Trump to sign hours before government spending was set to run out. 

The House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on Tuesday to keep the federal government open through December 20 with a 231-192.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) spoke out following Wednesday’s public impeachment hearing featuring acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor and senior State Department official George Kent, and she promised that she “will be there” in the event that an impeachment trial takes place in the Senate.

CLAIM: The name of the impeachment “whistleblower” cannot be revealed by law. VERDICT: False. No law says that, and Trump has 6th Amendment rights.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated that he thinks there is a “possibility” that the Senate will vote to remove President Trump from office, and said some Republicans in the Senate

Republican lawmakers are quietly discussing whether to call Joe and Hunter Biden as witnesses in the event of an impeachment trial in the Senate, the Washington Post reports.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters on Tuesday that the Senate would acquit President Trump if the impeachment trial were held today.

Tennessee Senate Republican candidate Bill Hagerty said Tuesday’s cartel attack on American citizens proves there is “no question” of a “crisis” on the southern border.

The Senate passed two of Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) proposals to rein in wasteful government spending this week.

Rep. Ted W. Lieu, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee helping to lead the impeachment process, previously used his Congressional position to promote Whistleblower Aid, a small nonprofit started by the attorney for the so-called whistleblower at the center of the impeachment claims.

Appearing Monday on the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) predicted it is highly unlikely the Senate will vote to convict President Donald Trump if Congress’s upper chamber takes up an impeachment trial.

Republican Senators are looking to torpedo the possibility of President Trump nominating Ken Cuccinelli to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a report claims.

Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza, head of the Angel Families organization, scolded pro-sanctuary city Senators during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, asking them to “imagine” their own children being killed by a criminal illegal alien who was released into the United States. 

Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who provided key testimony to the Democrats’ controversial impeachment inquiry yesterday, has evidenced a close relationship with the Atlantic Council think tank, even writing Ukraine policy pieces with the organization’s director.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Saturday that President Donald Trump would be very hard to beat unless Democrats impeached him before the 2020 election.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is begging the Senate to pass Sen. Mike Lee’s green card giveaway plan to reward multinational tech corporations after years of them importing foreign visa workers to take American jobs. 

Mark S. Zaid, the activist attorney representing the so-called whistleblower at the center of the impeachment movement targeting President Donald Trump, advocated for Robert S. Mueller III to become an anti-Trump whistleblower.

Planned Parenthood announced Monday it expects to spend $45 million during the 2020 election season, with the goal of winning the White House and snatching the Senate from Republicans.

A spokesman for Rep. Adam Schiff’s House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence denied any impropriety related to a trip taken by a staffer to Ukraine last month sponsored and organized by the Atlantic Council think tank.

Sections of a so-called whistleblower’s complaint alleging President Donald Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 presidential race relies upon a self-described investigative journalism organization bankrolled massively by billionaire activist George Soros.

Stop Child Predators, an organization that works to protect children from sexual predators, has sent a letter to the  Judiciary and Commerce Committees of both the House and the Senate asking lawmakers to investigate alleged violations of children’s privacy by the Masters of the Universe.