Article snippet: Michael A. Cohen The fact is, Americans are OK with raising taxes on super-rich Americans. political notebook The vote came up short even though several Republicans had criticized the sanctions move and 11 of them voted with Democrats. WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, citing security constraints from the partial government shutdown, asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to scrap his Jan. 29 State of the Union address, and a bipartisan group of senators called on him to reopen the government while they negotiated a compromise on border security. Though TSA workers are furloughed, they’re still required to come to work without pay. The partial government shutdown is a double-whammy for Cara and Philip Mangone, a married couple from Philadelphia. Both are agents with the Transportation Safety Administration, both working full time at the Philadelphia airport. Neither knows when they might again start drawing their paychecks. The senator said Tuesday on ‘‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’’ she is launching an exploratory committee for a White House run. The Ohio Senator is mulling a run for president and said he will visit Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. President Trump’s nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House on Tuesday, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, that the special counsel investigation shadowing Trump is not a witch hunt, and that his prede... Link to the full article to read more