The Washington Post
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Jeff Stein, Josh Dawsey
– May 21, 2019, 3:46 PM
Trump has refused to turn over his tax returns but has not invoked executive privilege. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has instead denied the returns by arguing there is no legislative purpose for demanding them. But, according to the IRS memo…
Bloomberg
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Edvard Pettersson
– May 21, 2019, 3:20 PM
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has put up just 1.7 miles of fencing with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump's wall along the Mexican border, a federal judge was told. A lawyer for the U.S. House of…
The Daily Beast
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Erin Banco
– May 21, 2019, 12:34 PM
The former Secretary of State is talking with lawmakers at the same time virtually everyone else who worked for the president is defying Congress. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was spotted entering a congressional office building on…
Leonard Leo stepped onto the stage in a darkened Florida ballroom, looked out at a gathering of some of the nation's most powerful conservative activists and told them they were on the cusp of fulfilling a long-sought dream. For two decades, Leo…
By Hannah Rappleye, Andrew W. Lehren, Spencer Woodman and Vanessa Swales Dulce Rivera lived for the one hour a day she was allowed to walk outside on a patch of concrete surrounded by metal fencing. The 36-year-old transgender woman from Central…
