Epstein Secrets

gement and Budget." On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, "Neera Tanden is an accomplished policy expert who would be an excellent Budget Director and we look forward to the committee votes this week and to continuing to work toward her confirmation through engagement with both parties

inees" sought to "assure lawmakers that the Justice Department would remain politically independent on his watch." The New York Times (2/22, Benner, Savage, 20.6M) reports Garland "vowed to uphold the independence of a Justice Department that had suffered deep politicization under the Trump administrat

amendment, which would add $50 billion in defense spending to the infrastructure bill. Toomey was ready to accept that, but Democrats were not, and Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., objected to that arrangement." Politico (8/9, Faler, 6.73M) reports, "The upshot is the Senate is likely to approve

ll as documents related to Operation Encore, a review by the FBI of its Sept. 11 probe conducted in 2016." The New York Times (8/9, Rogers, Murphy, Savage, 20.6M) reports, "In a court filing in long-running litigation brought by the victims' families against Saudi Arabia, the Justice Department said t

the 'career budget official" Mark Sandy, the deputy associate director for national security programs at the White House Office of Management and Budget, who "broke ranks with the President to tell his side of the story: Garrett Hake added that in "another crack in the White House impeachment fire w

Russia probe less than satisfying." House Investigators Looking Into Whether Trump Lied In Written Answers To Mueller. The New York Times (11/18, Savage, 18.61M) reports that Douglas Letter, the general counsel for the House, told a federal appeals court Monday that House impeachment investigators a