Washington — The House is expected to vote Thursday on the White House’s rescission package — its formal request to claw back funding for NPR, PBS and international aid that lawmakers had previously approved. The package would cancel $9.4 billion appropriated by Congress, looking to make permanent some of the Department of Government Efficiency’s spending
President Trump remains confident he won’t be impeached – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump is daring Democrats to draft articles of impeachment against him, saying he wants to go to trial. He downplayed the testimony of more than a dozen witnesses during the House impeachment inquiry over the past two weeks and said
John Bolton breaks his silence on Twitter – CBS News Watch CBS News A key figure in the impeachment inquiry is giving indications he might be willing to tell what he knows about aid to Ukraine. Nancy Cordes explains why everyone wants to hear from John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser. View CBS
Will Vindman be forced from his job after his impeachment testimony? – CBS News Watch CBS News Some of the Trump administration officials who testified at the impeachment hearings have now gone back to work, including Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. Paula Reid has details on how the White House is retaliating against them. View CBS
Constitutional scholars disagree on chance of impeaching Trump – CBS News Watch CBS News Lawmakers have questioned 17 witnesses and looked at more than 3,000 pages of sworn depositions in the Trump impeachment inquiry. House Democrats say they have enough evidence to move forward. President Trump has said there was no quid pro quo and
What comes next in the Trump impeachment inquiry? – CBS News Watch CBS News The impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is moving to the next phase after defiant testimony from the final public witnesses. Former White House official Fiona Hill and State Department staffer David Holmes recounted specific conversations implicating the president in a
Bloomberg files paperwork to run for president, but isn’t entering the race yet – CBS News Watch CBS News Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday filed his “statement of candidacy” with the Federal Election Commission, but his team says he’s not entering the race yet. Sean Sullivan, a CBSN political contributor and