There was a lot of griping on Capitol Hill that when the president announced his immigration plan, Republicans did not have any paper whatsoever to explain what he was proposing. More in Playbook:
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.JOHN BRESNAHAN: “Dems agree to billions in humanitarian aid for southern border”:
“Democratic leaders have agreed to fund a portion of the White House’s emergency funding request to address the surge of migrants at the southern border, according to multiple sources.late Thursday afternoon that they are willing to include some of the White House’s $4.5 billion proposal — specifically for humanitarian assistance — in a long-stalled disaster relief package.
by WaPo’s Carol Leonnig and Roz Helderman: “A federal judge on Thursday ordered that prosecutors make public a transcript of a phone call that former national security adviser Michael Flynn tried hard to hide with a lie: his conversation with a Russian ambassador in late 2016.in Washington ordered the government also to provide a public transcript of a November 2017 voice mail involving Flynn.
“They had a plan: dramatize the special counsel’s damning but dense report on national television in their committees, animating his prose with vivid testimony from witnesses who would discuss Mr. Mueller’s findings on Russia’s election interference and Mr. Trump’s possible obstruction of justice. But so far Mr. Trump and his allies have successfully parried every one of their moves.”by WSJ’s Sadie Gurman, Dustin Volz and Aruna Viswanatha: “The House Judiciary Committee and Mr.
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