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Russians Hacked Voter
Treasury Department Rejects Subpoena From Democrats For Trump Tax Returns
Database Of Florida
Panhandle County: Reports
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday defied a subpoena from House Democrats for Presi- dent Trump's tax returns, a move that's likely to trigger a court battle for the docu- ments.
“We are unable to provide the requested information in response to the Committee’s subpoena,” Mnuchin said in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.).
quest "lacks a legitimate leg- islative purpose."
Both Mnuchin and Neal have said they think the dis- pute will be decided in the courts. Neal told reporters hours before Mnuchin sent his letter that Democrats “will likely proceed to court as quickly as next week."
In a statement issued after Mnuchin rejected the sub- poena, Neal said he is "con- sulting with counsel on how best to enforce the subpoenas moving forward.”
One of the two Florida county election departments that were successfully tapped into by Russian hackers be- fore the 2016 election has been identified. Washington County, in the state’s Pan- handle, was penetrated by the Russian military’s spy agency, the GRU, according to reports from The Wash- ington Post and Politico. Trump received 77 percent of the more than 11,000 votes cast in the county, where a voter-registration database was breached; the region, with a population of 25,000, took a direct hit from Cate- gory 5 Hurricane Michael last fall.
The other hacked county has not been named, though reporters report it is believed to be a midsize county on the state’s east coast. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security briefed Florida Gov. Ron De San-
TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN
Trump Accuses FBI 0f
Mold. Leaks. Rodents. Crime. These are just some of the things the nation's 2 mil- lion public housing residents have to worry about. Many of the buildings they live in have been falling into disrepair for decades. Public housing offi- cials estimate that it would cost $50 billion to fix them up.
But the Trump administra- tion wants to eliminate the fed- eral fund now used to repair public housing in favor of at- tracting more private invest- ment to fix up and replace it.
Housing and Urban Devel- opment Secretary Ben Car- son says the country needs a new approach because the cur- rent one is not working. He ad- mits that living conditions for many public housing residents are extremely poor.
"There are two possible so- lutions. You can just throw
An employee of the District of Columbia Housing Authority walks on the grounds of a public housing complex called Richardson Dwellings in Northeast Washington, D.C. The Trump administration wants to eliminate the federal fund now used to repair public housing in favor of attracting more private invest- ment to repair and replace it.
‘Treason!’ For Investigation
Of His Campaign
more money at it, or you can say 'Why is that happening and why is it getting worse and is there anything that we can do about those factors,' " Carson recently told a House appro- priations subcommittee.
Part of the problem stems from a steady decline in public
housing repair funding over the past decade. About $2 bil- lion to $3 billion has been ap- propriated in recent years, half the amount approved in 2000. At the same time, the needs have grown at a more rapid rate, creating a massive back- log.
Donald Trump claimed early Friday that his 2016 cam- paign was “conclusively spied on” and accused those respon- sible of all-caps “TREASON!”
The president hasn’t pro- duced any evidence for his much-repeated belief that his campaign was illegally moni- tored, but it has been backed by his attorney general, William Barr. “Nothing like this has ever happened in American Politics,” said Trump. “A really bad situa- tion. TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON!”
Trump’s outburst comes days after Barr announced the appointment of a U. S. attorney to review the origins of the Russia investigation. The Jus-
The Obama Foundation And Columbia Join Forces
VLADMIR PUTIN
tis about the attack last week, but reporters report that fed- eral authorities sought to keep the names of the coun- ties confidential. Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed that Florida was a target of Russian hacking in his final report, but it has re- mained unclear to what ex- tent. De Santis told reporters that there was no evidence of “manipulation” of voter information.
the letter that Treasury has determined that Neal's re-
Mnuchin reiterated in
Trump Administration Wants To Cut
Funding For Public Housing Repairs
PRESIDENT TRUMP
tice Department did investigate possible ties between Russia and Trump campaign offi- cials, but it’s not been proven that it investigated the cam- paign itself.
The Obama Foundation has selected the Columbia Center for Oral History Research to produce the official oral his- tory of Barack Obama’s presidency. This project will provide a comprehensive, en- during record of the decisions, actions, and effects of his his- toric presidency.
Columbia University and the Obama Foundation are pleased to announce that the Columbia Center for Oral His- tory Research has been se- lected to produce the official oral history of the presidency of Barack Obama (CC '83). This project will provide a comprehensive, enduring record of the decisions, ac- tions, and effects of his his- toric terms in office. The University of Hawaiʻi and the University of Chicago will partner with Columbia in this project. The University of
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at his second inauguration, January 21, 2013.
Hawaiʻi will focus on Presi- dent Obama’s early life, and the University of Chicago will concentrate on the Obamas’ lives in Chicago.
“The pride we feel in count- ing President Obama as an alumnus involves much more than the recognition of his time as a student here many years ago. This is a relation- ship built on shared values and interests that is producing
public spirited projects of enormous, even transforma- tive, potential at Columbia,” said Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger. “The latest venture will capi- talize on the University’s un- surpassed talent for assembling oral history and will, I am sure, create an in- valuable resource for under- standing an historic presidency.”
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