Whitaker has described Mueller’s probe as being too wide-ranging. Trump last week forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replaced him with Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general in charge of overseeing Mueller. Among Moscow's elites, 'there is the growing feeling that he is a lame duck,' a Russian.
The Wagner boss showed that the Russian president no longer enjoys a monopoly of force in his country. Moscow has said it did not interfere in the election.ĭemocrats and some Republicans worry Trump is manoeuvring to fire or significantly restrain the special counsel. Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion is over but the damage to Vladimir Putin is irreversible, experts say. that Russia's leader was meeting with a lame duck Japanese prime minister.
Trump repeatedly has characterized the Mueller investigation as a “witch hunt” and has denied that he or his associates colluded with Russia. The Sankei Shimbun warned that anti-Russian sentiment in Japan was bound to. presidential election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to help Trump win. “This election cycle really was about delivering a check to this administration, and it would be quite disappointing if we do not do that for the people,” Democratic Representative-elect Ilhan Omar of Minnesota told a news conference in Washington.Ī House Democratic aide argued that the election results mean that Trump’s request for $25 billion (£19.2 billion) to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is “dead.”įor the current-year spending bill, Democrats and some Republicans want to attach legislation preventing Trump from impeding or ending the work of Mueller, who is leading an inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. Until then, Republicans retain their dominance in both chambers, although Democrats already are ramping up challenges to their partisan rivals and Republican President Donald Trump. New members will be sworn in the first week of January. In the elections, voters ended the Republicans’ majority control of the House of Representatives, giving it to Democrats, while leaving the Senate in Republican hands.
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Those issues, plus leadership contests among both Democrats and Republicans, promise to dominate the brief session of Congress wedged in between last week’s congressional elections and the start of the 2019-2020 Congress in January. House Intelligence Committee on his investigation of potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2017. FILE PHOTO: Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing the U.S.
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