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One by one, the Republican leaders of Congress have made the trip to Mar-a-Lago to see Donald Trump. But missing from the appearances has been perhaps the most powerful Republican elected official in the country, Mitch McConnell, a onetime ally who ushered the former president's legislative and judicial agenda to fruition, but now claims to want nothing to do with Trump. 18 hours ago in National, Trending The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014, asked the Justice Department on Friday to reopen the case into his death after ...

everybody on the committee has one way or the other. tell us what happens if we bend to the easy decision and not do brac, what do we give up in that tradeoff? >> look, you all know this, the defense only has so many parts. i've identified the areas that involve savings that we can focus on. we put everything on the table. those parts are efficiencies whatever we can do to eliminate waste and cut down on bureaucratic overhead. there's a lot of that. we've added about $60 billion in savings in that area. the second area obviously is force structure. obviously that means, that involves...

fired, a paper buried because a doner was upset. >>i would say we have a policy -- clear policy that no individuaoll support will support individual research. it becomes a challenge, you do not make that kind of commitment. we are very clear that no particular paper is written because of a contribution. our foundation is different, but the fund issues are brought in fund research. >> two quick points. i agree on the donor. . in the article, i mentioned the david frum incident i the dow that the things he wrote in terms of democratic parliamentary procedures in the health-care bill we...

could disrupt these gains and incur extra costs. how did the department come to this decision and how does the department propose to mitigate the military risks, the monetary costs and the work force challenges generated by the shift? obviously the virginia class submarine is a program that has come in on time and under budget because of the efficiencies that we gain from block buys and stability to the supply chain. i'm concerned this delay is going to cost us in these areas. i've been a staunch supporter in investments in cybersecurity, and i continue to see the escalation in cyber...