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Wild Week Highlights White House, Congress Divide

A U.S. Secret Service officer stands guard in the rain in front of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017. The White House and the Capitol sit two miles
apart, but this week, they might as well have been two worlds away. Republicans labored over health care while White House officials labored to save their jobs
amid a public - and sometimes shockingly vulgar - feud between senior staff.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
By JULIE PACE to overhaul the nation’s staff Reince Priebus. mainly limited to the occa- the meeting. “Let’s break
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER health care system. At the Rarely has the gap be- sional tweet. At a closed- through this stuff, let’s pro-
Associated Press White House, officials la- tween the priorities of a door meeting of the House duce results. The internal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The bored to keep their jobs president and lawmakers in Republican caucus Friday, White House warfare is in
White House sits two miles amid a highly public — and his own party been so stark. at least one lawmaker be- fact an impediment to do-
from the U.S. Capitol, but at times, shockingly vulgar By week’s end, Trump had moaned the impact of ing so.”The Pennsylvania
this week, it might as well — feud between President become largely irrelevant the White House’s internal Avenue divide stretched
have been a world away. Donald Trump’s senior ad- as Republicans’ tried to drama.“That which is weird beyond the health care
In Congress, Republicans visers that culminated with fulfill a seven-year promise is getting weirder at the debacle this week.
labored around the clock Friday’s announcement of to voters on health care. White House,” Rep. Mark
in an ultimately futile bid the resignation of chief of Trump’s involvement was Sanford, R-S.C., said after Continued on Page 3

North Korea 2nd ICBM Test Puts Much of US in Range: Experts

MARI YAMAGUCHI sile, which flew longer and Angeles and Chicago, is late Friday night, flew for jectory, which limited the
Associated Press higher than the first accord- now within range of Pyong- about 45 minutes — about distance it traveled, and
PYONGYANG, North Korea ing to its wary neighbors, yang’s weapons. five minutes longer than the landed west of Japan’s is-
(AP) — North Korea on Fri- leading analysts to con- Japanese government ICBM North Korea test-fired land of Hokkaido.
day test-fired its second in- clude that a wide swath spokesman Yoshihide Suga on July 4. The missile was Continued on Page 2
tercontinental ballistic mis- of the U.S., including Los said the missile, launched launched on very high tra-