Trump and allies believe they have a “new lease” after the Russia probe's end, yet already the improvisational president has caused new controversy on healthcare and North Korea.
“We need to make sure that the entire report is made public and then we can debate the facts,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Burbank Democrat who heads the House Intelligence Committee.
In a recent meeting with Trump and senior officials, Barr pleaded for a more narrow legal strategy. He argued that a lower court judge’s ruling declaring the healthcare law unconstitutional was flawed and unlikely to stand on appeal, according to an administration official with knowledge of the meeting. Until this week, for months the administration had made the narrower case, that only parts of the law were unconstitutional.
. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and Trump confidant, said he made the same case to the president over the weekend when they played golf in Florida.The decision was such a surprise to Trump’s staff that the Justice Department memo to the appeals court, filed late Monday, was two sentences long.
His tweet was widely assumed to refer to sanctions Mnuchin imposed a day earlier — and announced with fanfare. National security advisor John Bolton also had publicly promoted the new sanctions. National security officials declined to discuss the matter on the record, and Treasury officials, who oversee sanctions, did not respond to several requests for an explanation. The sanctions against the Chinese companies appear to remain in place.
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