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This follows a consistent Democrat-led push to criminalize all private gun sales via universal background checks. On February 27, Breitbart News reported that the Democrat-run House passed legislation to require a background check for every gun sale, thus criminalizing someone who sells a gun to a decades-long neighbor without government approval.

Flanders said recently that funding Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security remains a daunting challenge for the American government, which is “all the more reason” why Medicare for All is “nearly irrational” to discuss. “You’re already saying that it’s a challenge to fund what we’ve already committed to our seniors,” Flanders said.

For 27 months, there were about 44 illegal aliens from terrorist-sponsored countries who were shielded from deportation by sanctuary city laws, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) reveals. Those terrorist-sponsored countries, designated as such by the State Department, include Iran, Sudan, Syria, and North Korea.

Ocasio-Cortez suggested that Republicans too often mischaracterize her dry humor and “fact check” her jokes, claiming that they take them too literally. One of her alleged jokes includes a January claim that the world will end in 12 years if we do not address climate change, comparing it to a modern World War II-style struggle. “Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.

WASHINGTON — If there were a Mount Rushmore for golfers, Tiger Woods would probably be on it. But President Donald Trump’s decision to award the nation’s highest civilian honor to Woods has raised questions about whether the president should be boosting the profile of a business associate of The Trump Organization. Trump planned to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Woods during a White House ceremony Monday evening.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is instructing former counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a subpoena for documents from the House Judiciary Committee, arguing the materials are subject to executive privilege. White House counsel Pat Cipollone sent a letter to committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Tuesday saying McGahn has been directed not to disclose the documents.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is declaring ‘‘case closed’’ on the Russia probe and potential obstruction by President Trump. Senator Elizabeth Warren offered a rebuttal a short time later, saying that “wishing won’t make it so.” The Republican leader, in his most significant public comments yet on the investigation, opened the Senate Tuesday with a speech discussing how special counsel Robert Mueller’s ‘‘exhaustive’’ probe went on for two years and is now complete.

The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress after last-minute negotiations stalled with the Justice Department over access to the full, unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Democrats, who hold a majority in the House of Representatives, control the committee. But what exactly does it mean to be held in contempt of Congress?

Sen. MORE (D-N.Y.) in headlining a rally Monday to support the Green New Deal resolution, a progressive proposal that calls for sweeping reforms to combat climate change. Monday's rally at Howard University will mark the end of the Sunrise Movement's nationwide "Road to a Green New Deal Tour." About 1,500 people are expected to attend, including Sen.