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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan listens, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, during a House Appropriations subcommittee on budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Pentagon chief wonders when US-Mexico border mission to end

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents attend operational readiness exercises at the San Ysidro port of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border, seen from Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to close the U.S. border with Mexico for an undisclosed period if his administration determines Mexico has lost "control" on its side. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Trump asks Congress for $4.5 billion in emergency aid for child migrants, border crisis

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this June 28, 2018, file photo, a Guatemalan father and son, who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, are apprehended by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Diego. California will introduce group trials on Monday, July 9, for people charged with entering the country illegally. Federal prosecutors in Arizona, Texas and New Mexico have long embraced these hearings, which critics call assembly-line justice. California was a lone holdout and the Justice Department didn't seriously challenge its position until the arrival of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

DNA tests to identify ‘fake’ illegal immigrant families at border

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Voters oppose impeachment at this point: Poll

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

The Latest: Trump blasts Democrats after Barr testimony

Associated Press

In this March 24, 2019, file photo, special counsel Robert Mueller departs St. John's Episcopal Church, across from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Text of special counsel’s letter to attorney general

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Nov. 7, 2017, photo, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calf., answers questions during an interview at The Associated Press bureau in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Dems vow to enforce subpoenas as Trump resistance grows

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., joined by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., back left, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., speaks to members of the news media following a Senate policy luncheon, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

As Trump vows subpoena fights, Democrats weigh their options

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

Crony Satellite TV Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why crony capitalism that props up satellite TV must be stopped

By Bob Barr

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 10, 2019, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies before the House Education and Labor Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. A political battle is reheating over a federal program that was designed to cancel student loans for certain public workers but has largely failed to deliver that promise. The program, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, promises to erase federal student loans for public workers who make 10 years of payments while working for approved employers. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Lawmakers debate future of loan relief for public workers

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., second from right, arrives for a news conference on veteran suicide prevention with House Veterans' Committee members, Monday April 29, 2019, at the House Triangle on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Impeach or investigate? Democrats see no reason to choose

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

A man casts his vote at a polling station for the general election in Pamplona, Spain, Sunday, April 28, 2019. A divided Spain is voting in its third general election in four years, with all eyes on whether the rise of conservative nationalism will allow the right wing to unseat the incumbent prime minister. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

The Latest: Spain’s ruling Socialist Party wins election

Associated Press

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at Resch Center Complex in Green Bay, Wis., Saturday, April 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump executive privilege threat invites messy legal battle

By Jonathan Lemire and Mark Sherman - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 3, 2019 file photo, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington following a meeting with President Donald Trump. It's not just Democratic-leaning states at risk of losing federal money and clout in Congress if the Supreme Court says the upcoming census can include a citizenship question. Fast-growing Arizona, Florida and Texas all have large groups of immigrants, especially Hispanics, who might choose to sit out the census, but are led by Republicans who seem unconcerned about the potential for an undercount and the resulting loss of representation in Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Immigrant-heavy GOP states OK with census citizen question

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and GEOFF MULVIHILL - Associated Press

Mindy Nagel poses for a photograph at the threshold of her home, Monday, April 1, 2019, in Cincinnati. Mindy usually votes Democratic; while husband Tom usually goes Republican. But that's only part of it: their bedroom is in Ohio's 1st Congressional District while their garage is in the 2nd. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

GOP ‘seawall’? Ohio’s congressional map under fire in court

By Dan Sewell - Associated Press

In this April 18, 2018, photo, the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump is threatening to broadly assert executive privilege to block a series of current and former aides from testifying before Congress, including some who already cooperated with the special counsel’s Russia probe. It’s a strategy that could yield a messy, drawn-out legal fight.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s executive privilege strategy could mean messy fight

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

This Sept. 15, 2009 file photo shows marijuana plants in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Veterans subcommittee moves forward with marijuana bills widening access to medical pot

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Illustration on the finish of the Mueller investigation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Mueller report and obstruction of justice

By Donald Lambro

A young indigenous man applies body paint as he checks himself out in a mirror, during an annual three-day campout protest known as the Free Land Encampment, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. The event begins amid animosity between Brazil’s indigenous groups and the new government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Indigenous Brazilians gather to protest outside Congress

By RENATO DOMINGUES and ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump waves as he arrives back to the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 24, 2019 with first lady Melania Trump, after Trump spoke at the "Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit" in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump is not doing anything on censorship

By L. Todd Wood