Politico - 19.09.2019

Military has spent nearly $200K

at Trump Turnberry since 2017

The spending paid for the equivalent of hundreds

of nights of rooms over approximately three dozen
separate stays, the committee said.
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Omar urges

Twitter action

Representative calls

on service to take

a false Trump tweet.

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Arizona emerges as a 2020

trouble spot for Trump

Democrats appear to have their best shot

at capturing the state since Bill Clinton won it

more than two decades ago.

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Wuerker

The cartoonist’s

daily take on the

world of politics.

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House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been allies for 25 years, but Nadler’s

push to impeach President Donald Trump clashes with Pelosi’s need to protect moderate Democrats.

Leaked gun

proposal sows

chaos on Hill

Inside the Pelosi-Nadler

impeachment schism Liberals fret over Pelosi’s

drug pricing measure

A Trump administration pro-

posal to expand background

checks on firearm sales is already in

jeopardy unless President Donald

Trump unexpectedly saves it, with

the White House distancing itself

and the National Rifle Association

outright opposing it.

A background checks proposal

began circulating on Capitol Hill

this week as Attorney General Wil-

liam Barr and other officials met

with Senate Republicans to dis-

cuss gun safety plans. But many

Republicans hadn’t read the pro-

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making

a hard sell to her caucus this week

on a signature drug pricing bill. But

it’s not yet clear whether she can

win over skeptical progressives.

The California Democrat has

won initial praise from key mod-

erate factions in her drive to push

the legislation through by Thanks-

giving. But the ambitious plan, and

its closed-door drafting process,

has left progressives worried that

the bill will fall well short of their

expectations and that they remain

cut out of the talks.

The backlash from the left com-

plicates a key moment for Pelosi

— who won back the House after

the party zeroed in on health care

during the 2018 midterm elections

but has achieved relatively little on

curbing sky-high drug costs in the

first nine months of the majority.

“Some will hail. And others will

call it hell,” said Rep. A nna Eshoo,

chair of the Energy and Commerce

In a closed-door meeting last

week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi

stunned lawmakers and aides

with a swipe at Democratic

staff on the House Judiciary

Committee.

Pelosi criticized the panel’s

handling of impeachment in

harsh terms, complaining com-

mittee aides have advanced the

push for ousting President Don-

ald Trump far beyond where

the House Democratic Caucus

stands. Democrats simply don’t

have the votes on the floor to im-

peach Trump, Pelosi said.

“And you can feel free to leak

this,” Pelosi added, according to

multiple people in the room. Pe-

losi’s office declined to comment

on the meeting.

It was the latest sign of the

widening schism between Pelo-

si and Judiciary Chairman Jerry

Nadler, two longtime allies who

increasingly are in conflict over

where to guide the party at one of

its most critical moments.

Pelosi and Nadler, who have

served in the House together for

more than 25 years, insist their

relationship remains strong. But

Senators say they’re unwilling to support

any gun proposal until Trump endorses it

The longtime allies are increasingly at odds

over the push to oust President Donald Trump

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President Donald Trump is said to

want a meaningful gun proposal.

BY MARIANNE LeVINE

AND BURGESS EVERETT

BY SARAH FERRIS,

ADAM CANCRYN

BY SARAH FERRIS, AND SARAH KARLIN-SMITH

HEATHER CAYGLE

AND JOHN BRESNAHAN

GUNS on page 13

DRUG PRICING on page 10

IMPEACHMENT on page 11