Tag: Sheila Jackson Lee

Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________ • President Trump said he would deliver his State of the Union address after the federal government reopens, capping a day of brinkmanship with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His apparent capitulation came even as House Democrats said they were prepared to give him a substantial sum of money for border security — but not for a wall, and not until he agreed to reopen the government. His lawyer cited the president’s attacks on Mr. Cohen’s family. • Lawyers representing Paul Manafort strongly denied claims by the special counsel’s prosecutors that Mr. Manafort repeatedly lied to them, stating that the prosecutors had wrongly interpreted honest memory lapses and innocent misstatements. candidate who narrowly won his election. The episode, which stunned Democrats, underlines Mr. Biden’s vulnerabilities in the fight for his party’s presidential nomination. • Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, will resign as chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation after facing fallout from a lawsuit claiming that she fired an aide who said she was sexually assaulted by a supervisor at the foundation. • Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., announced that he was entering the Democratic presidential primary.