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At a private meeting in the West Wing yesterday to discuss strategies on USMCA, Pence stunned some biz executives by rehashing the Trump-Pelosi meltdown from Wednesday. “It really wasn’t the time or place,” one participant said.
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Pence team & other senior Trump advisers want to force immediate action on USMCA. But Lighthizer warns that the last time a GOP prez jammed a Dem-controlled House on a trade pact, they lost the Colombia deal in 2008. The speaker at the time: Nancy Pelosi.
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Citing threat from Iran, the Trump administration is sidestepping Congress to green light $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE, with side deals for Jordan, Israel and others. Democratic lawmakers are outraged. https://t.co/TInad1XbEL
A wrenching portrait of the border from @acaldwellwsj: one father and daughter were placed for days in a concrete cell with sink and toylet-no bed. The facility was built for single men to stay hours, not days https://t.co/MxQFGeqVRZ
The Trump administration completed its rule requiring drugmakers to include list prices for most drugs in television ads, pushing ahead with efforts to improve transparency in health-care costs despite opposition from pharmaceutical companies.
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“You guys did everything to stop me.” How President Trump soured on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
BIG new story from @learyreports & Brody Mullins https://t.co/tsAQW2GVbS
“You guys did everything to stop me.” How President Trump soured on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington’s largest lobbyist, and worsened its troubles. A great inside Washington story by Brody Mullins and @learyreports https://t.co/OcsSoZ9Yme via @WSJ
New: Armed with hundreds of pages of new revelations of Trump’s efforts to curtail and restrict Mueller, Dems face the politically risky decision of what to do next: Use it to campaign against Trump or try to impeach him first. W/@siobhanehughes https://t.co/aLyN51RRgu
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that "countless members of the FBI" had indicated they did not support Comey. She later told Mueller's team that her comment was "not founded on anything," according to the report. https://t.co/Ob55MjE5e6
"It also represents a test case in whether a divided capital awash in trivial controversies and angry Twitter-fests can manage a serious debate on an important policy idea." https://t.co/dELrqUHAjq via @WSJ
President Trump’s news conference with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday again put on display an approach to diplomacy that prizes personalities. By @aduehren https://t.co/I5BZMsVdKv
Progressive? Pragmatist? Socialist? Democratic presidential candidates split over how to address their party’s increasingly vocal liberal base, w/ @reidepstein https://t.co/BnCkmLzZO3
The Fed's "dot plot" is causing more grief because as the central bank trims forward guidance from its statement (a consensus document), the dots are bound to get more attention, even though the dots aren't really a product designed to show the consensus https://t.co/Eci0qE1ccM