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Russia

Probe

Expands

Special Counsel’s Trump Investigation Includes Manafort Case

In this July 17, 2016 photo, Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in
Cleveland as Rick Gates listens at back left. Robert Muller, the special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia’s
government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his inquiry to investigate the
roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, The Associated Press has learned.
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Pelosi:

No Debt Limit Increase to Reward Rich with Tax Cuts

By ANDREW TAYLOR she has no “intention of support- next month. Treasury Secretary want to use the measure as an
Associated Press ing lifting the debt ceiling to en- Steven Mnuchin is pressing for a opportunity to advance spend-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House able the Republicans to give an- debt limit measure that’s free of ing cuts.
Democrat Nancy Pelosi says that other tax break to the wealthy.” other legislation that could inter- “I think it’s fair to say that we’ve
GOP leaders shouldn’t take for Her remarks came as the Trump fere with its passage, but other not settled on a final policy for the
granted that Democrats will vote administration and congressional Republicans, such as White House administration,” Mulvaney said in
to increase the government’s Republicans are grappling to de- budget director Mick Mulvaney an interview Friday with The New
borrowing cap. velop a strategy for a debt limit and House conservative groups York Times that was webcast on
Pelosi told reporters Friday that measure that could advance such as the Freedom Caucus, Facebook.q