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“Republican hypocrisy at its finest: saying that Trump admitting to sexual assault on tape is just ‘locker room talk,’ but scandalizing themselves into faux-outrage when my sis says a curse word in a bar,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in reference to the Access Hollywood tape in which President Trump — at the time host of the reality television program The Apprentice — was recorded making lewd comments about women. “GOP lost entitlement to policing women’s behavior a long time ago.

“Some of those present did not want to hear the presentation at the time, and so I have instead decided to make the presentation available to all Members of Congress,” Trump wrote in his letter released moments prior to a second meeting with Democrats at the White House. According to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Democrats interrupted Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen’s Wednesday briefing in the Situation Room. The White House released

Political Notebook The House speaker said she’s waiting to hear the conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.  Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins said she’s “getting ready to run” for re-election, but also said she won’t make a decision until the end of the year.

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Political Notebook The House speaker said she’s waiting to hear the conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.  Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins said she’s “getting ready to run” for re-election, but also said she won’t make a decision until the end of the year.

Political Notebook The House speaker said she’s waiting to hear the conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.  Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins said she’s “getting ready to run” for re-election, but also said she won’t make a decision until the end of the year.

Political Notebook The House speaker said she’s waiting to hear the conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.  Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins said she’s “getting ready to run” for re-election, but also said she won’t make a decision until the end of the year.

MORE doubled down on his demand for border wall funding Saturday morning ahead of a meeting with congressional leaders to negotiate an end to the partial government shutdown. “The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time," Trump tweeted early Saturday. "All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall), something which everyone, other than drug dealers, human traffickers and criminals, want very badly! This would be so easy to do!” he added.  The government entered a partial shutdown on Dec.

MORE said Saturday that he wants to end the partial government shutdown that is stretching into its third week while reiterating his claim that most of the federal workers being furloughed or forced to work without pay are Democrats. “I don’t care that most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats, I want to stop the Shutdown as soon as we are in agreement on Strong Border Security!” the president tweeted. “I am in the White House ready to go, where are the Dems?” The government entered a partial shutdown on Dec.

Vice President Pence and top members of the Trump administration met with Democratic congressional staffers on Saturday to discuss a potential end to the weeks-long partial government shutdown. Pence, White House acting chief of staff MORE were spotted leaving the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Saturday afternoon after the approximately two-hour meeting. An aide to Pence said that the meeting did not include a specific discussion about the dollar amount requested by the White House for a funding bill but it instead focused on security. But a Democratic source