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Capitol agenda: A brutal blow for Johnson and Trump

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Donald Trump and Mike Johnson failed to convince enough deficit hawks to back the latest budget plan for the president’s agenda — forcing the speaker to punt his planned Wednesday vote on the resolution and sending House leadership scrambling for a compromise that could satisfy hard-liners’ demands for more spending cuts…
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House eyes Friday vote on stopgap as partisan tensions flare

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House eyes Friday vote on stopgap as partisan tensions flare

GOP leaders believe they will need to heed the chamber’s 72-hour-review rule…
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Kash Patel says court orders bar him from releasing the Epstein files. Judges have said otherwise.

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FBI Director Kash Patel claimed Wednesday that he is barred by recent court orders from releasing thousands of documents connected to disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m not going to break the law to satisfy your curiosity,” Patel said during the second day of Congressional oversight hearings after Rep…
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Jim Jordan goes after Adam Schiff at FBI oversight hearing

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House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan on Wednesday opened FBI Director Kash Patel’s second Congressional oversight hearing in two days by going after a former colleague, Sen. Adam Schiff. “Why would the head of the Intelligence Committee, the chair of that committee, who’s supposed to be guarding our secrets — why would he be encouraging the leaking of classified information?” Jordan…
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