Betsy DeVos throws OMB under the bus, insisting she always opposed the cuts.
The move paves the way for E.U. member states to ban single-use plastics by 2021. -- Trump inflated his net worth to lenders and potential business partners by producing “Statements of Financial Condition” that included a number of errors about his financial holdings.The documents, which ran up to 20 pages in length, often omitted information about Trump’s debts or exaggerated the properties he owned.
They said it depends on whether Trump intended to mislead or whether the misstatements caused anyone to give him a financial benefit.” including Trump’s written answers to some questions. Their goal: to satisfy Mueller’s hunt for information to the extent that the special counsel would not have legal standing to subpoena the president’s oral testimony.”
-- Trump claimed the “Russia hoax” is “finally dead” while speaking at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., last night.: “After three years of lies and spin and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead,’ Trump said to cheers from the crowd. ‘The special counsel completed its report and found no collusion and no obstruction. I could have told you that 2½ years ago. Total exoneration. Complete vindication.
Craig, who served as White House counsel in the Obama administration, allegedly provided false statements to investigators who were looking into his work for Ukraine. The investigation, now in the hands of the Justice Department's national security division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, demonstrates how far-reaching and long-lasting the ramifications of Mueller’s probe will be.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell listens during a news briefing after the Senate Republican weekly policy luncheon. -- McConnell is preparing to once again change the rules of the Senate so that he can more rapidly confirm hundreds of Trump nominees, including some controversial picks for federal judgeships.
-- The House Oversight Committee will expand its investigation into allegations of voter suppression efforts in Kansas and Texas during the midterms.“The committee, led by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings , already launched an investigation earlier this month into such allegations in Georgia where Democrats allege GOP officials enacted policies that disproportionately suppressed voting among people of color.
-- Stephen Moore, Trump’s pick to join the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, said he wants to take the central bank in the direction the president supports.: Moore “went on conservative radio to sell his message, saying he would advocate lower interest rates, a position Trump has demanded but that most Fed officials, including Chair Jerome H. Powell, oppose. ...
: “The covert group was behind the remarkably brazen act of defiance against the North Korean government. But as details of the raid became publicly known over the past few days, the group has pushed back against media attention, apparently fearful not only of the Spanish legal system but also the potential to be targeted by North Korea.”
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