Epstein Secrets

d out his threat not to sign the bill, he would bring on what they most feared: a shutdown. And he might well blame the shutdown on his own party. Mark Meadows, the head of the House Freedom Caucus and a staunch Trump ally in Congress, called the president from Europe to say that after the vote on Thursday

ght-wing adversary Mark Meadows, along with Bannon, had gotten behind a plan to push House majority leader Kevin McCarthy for chief of staff. Even Meadows, who hated McCarthy, was all for it. Here finally was a strat- egy: McCarthy, a top tactician, would refocus an unfocused White House on one mission

t anyone who would listen that as many as fifty or sixty House seats would be lost seven months hence in the mid- term elections. A Ryan lieutenant, Steve Stivers, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, was estimating a loss of ninety to one hundred seats. At this gloomy hour, it seemed

ill instead stay "in the fight" with Trump in an unspecified job. John Wagner, Costa and Mike DeBonis report: "'For everything there is a season,' Meadows said in a statement. 'After prayerful consideration and discussion with family, today I'm announcing that my time serving Western North Carolina in

ains District Court. Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor cop, faces the death penalty for the alleged murders in a drug deal gone bad." -- Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a close Trump ally, won't run for reelection next year but will instead stay "in the fight" with Trump in an unspecified job. John Wagner

), who flipped a suburban seat long held by the GOP in the Twin Cities. "I admit she has rehabilitated her image from 2006, 2008, 2010," said Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee last year. "I don't know that I know exactly where all this goes, but I know

ied out his threat not to sign the bill, he would bring on what they most feared: a shutdown. And he might well blame the shutdown on his own party. Mark Meadows, the head of the House Freedom Caucus and a | staunch Trump ally in Congress, called the president from Europe to say that after the vote on Thursda

right-wing adversary Mark Meadows, along with Bannon, had gotten behind a plan to push House majority leader Kevin McCarthy for chief of staff. Even Meadows, who hated McCarthy, was all for it. Here finally was a strat- egy: McCarthy, a top tactician, would refocus an unfocused White House on one mission—

most anyone who would listen that as id as fifty or sixty House seats would be lost seven months hence in the mid- term elections. A Ryan lieutenant, Steve Stivers, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, was estimating a loss of ninety to one hundred seats. At this gloomy hour, it seemed mo