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Trump Lashes Out At Cummings Over Border Criticism
Dems Move Closer To
After a week of positive momentum for his adminis- tration — which saw a budget deal passed, a Supreme Court victory for his border wall plan and special counsel Robert Mueller’s testi- mony fail to generate new momentum toward impeach- ment — President Donald Trump returned to lobbing insults, kicking up another firestorm over his choice of targets.
Trump early Saturday lashed out at Rep. Elijah Cummings, calling the Dem- ocratic lawmaker a “brutal bully” on the border issue and criticizing his majority- black Baltimore district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and where “no human being would want to live.”
is considered the Worst in the USA......," Trump tweeted at 7:14 a.m.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee led by Cummings voted Thursday to authorize subpoenas for senior White House officials’ communications via private email accounts and messag- ing applications.
Cummings responded to the president’s attacks hours later on Twitter.
"Mr. President, I go home to my district daily. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitu- tional duty to conduct over- sight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my con- stituents," Cummings wrote.
Strategy Shakeup
REP, ELIJAH CUMMINGS “Rep, Elijah Cummings
has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about condi- tions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district
House Democrats on Fri- day took a major step for- ward in their legal fight against President Donald Trump — one that looks much like the beginning of impeachment, even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to resist a formal inquiry.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler’s announce- ment on Friday that the House is formally seeking special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury infor- mation complicates the far more cautious message on impeachment coming from Pelosi and her top deputies. Nadler said the action “in effect” is part of an impeach- ment inquiry — though one has not been formally launched — and in petition- ing a federal court for the grand jury evidence, House Democrats put in writing for the first time that they are considering whether im-
peachment is warranted. “We are continuing an in- vestigation of the president’s malfeasances,” Nadler said. “And we will consider what we have to consider, includ- ing whether we should rec- ommend articles of impeachment to the House. That’s the job of our commit-
tee.”
Obama 'Proud' Of Former Members Of His Administration Who Stood Up To Trump In Op-ed
Representative Charlie Crist
Embraces Role As Florida
Space Coast Booster
Impeachment In A
WASHINGTON- Former
President Barack Obama
praised members of his ad- ministration for "continuing to fight for an America that's better" after nearly 150 African Americans signed an op-ed slamming President Donald Trump for his re- cent racist attacks targeting four progressive Democratic congresswomen of color.
"I've always been proud of what this team accomplished during my administration. But more than what we did, I'm proud of how they're con- tinuing to fight for an Amer- ica that's better," Obama, who has been notoriously re- strained since leaving office when it comes to publicly
BARACK OBAMA
speaking out about Trump's policies and behavior, wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday. Obama's former senior adviser Valerie Jar- rett was also a signatory of the op-ed.
In the op-ed, published on Friday in the Washington Post, former members of Obama's administration signaled their support for the four Democratic congress- women that Trump targeted and said the current presi- dent is "complicit in the poi- soning of our democracy."
"We stand with congress- women Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, as well as all those currently under attack by President Trump," the op-ed reads. "There is truly nothing more un-American than calling on fellow citizens to leave our country."
Fifty years after the moon landing the Florida Space Coast is preparing to once again play a major role in the nation’s space exploration goals — and Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) says he's working overtime to ensure it remains in the driver's seat.
Crist, who served four years as Florida's Republican governor before later switch- ing parties, is now a member of both the House Science, Space and Technology Com- mittee and the House Appro- priations subcommittee overseeing NASA.
“I want to do everything I can from this platform ... to be supportive of whatever NASA is doing, whether that’s going to the moon in 2024 with Artemis or beyond
REP. CHARLIE CRIST
that, in the exploration of Mars," he told reporters.
Crist said he is also seek- ing new ways to support the types of public-private part- nerships between commer- cial space companies and government players that he says have already had an "electric effect on the Space Coast and Florida."
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
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