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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks off the House floor following a speech by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a Joint Meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, having been invited by the bipartisan leadership of the House of Representatives and the Senate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP goes ‘nuclear’ to speed Trump nominees through Senate

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this March 28, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. Trump is suggesting he will defer until after 2020 his push for a Republican health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. Trump tweeted late Monday that Congress will vote on a GOP plan after the elections, ”when Republicans hold the Senate &amp; win back the House.” (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump claims he wasn’t seeking pre-election health care vote

By LISA MASCARO and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

In this March 28, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. Trump is suggesting he will defer until after 2020 his push for a Republican health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. Trump tweeted late Monday that Congress will vote on a GOP plan after the elections, ”when Republicans hold the Senate &amp; win back the House.” (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Donald Trump floats Obamacare repeal vote after 2020 election

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this March 28, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. Trump is suggesting he will defer until after 2020 his push for a Republican health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. Trump tweeted late Monday that Congress will vote on a GOP plan after the elections, ”when Republicans hold the Senate &amp; win back the House.” (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

McConnell shuts the door on Trump health care push

By LISA MASCARO and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

A group of protesters greet Senator Mitch McConnell with chants and jeers as he begins his introduction of Senator Tim Kaine for a speech at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center in Louisville, Ky. (Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal via AP)

Protesters interrupt McConnell remarks at Kentucky event

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the House package was a "non-starter" because it doesn't provide relief for the midwest and that the White House has indicated President Trump would not support it. (Associated Press)

GOP launches path to nuclear option rules change in Senate

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 5, 2019, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at the Capitol in Washington. Senate Republicans frustrated at Democratic stalling tactics on President Donald Trump's appointments are taking steps to change Senate rules to significantly shorten debate time on most nominees. McConnell said he's making the move in response to &quot;unprecedented obstruction&quot; by Democrats, which have required Republicans to hold time-consuming procedural votes on 128 of Trump's nominees. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate GOP to change rules to speed debate on nominations

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

Sen. Edward Markey, D- Mass., speaks at a rally for Green New Deal, Tuesday, March 26, 2019, outside the Capitol in Washington. The Green New Deal calls for the U.S. to shift away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal and replace them with renewable sources such as wind and solar power. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)

EDITORIAL: Democrats know the Green New Deal is fantastical nonsense

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Mitch McConnell tells House Dems to pass bill cutting funds for BDS movement: ‘Talk is cheap’

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Senate to vote on wall emergency Thursday

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters just after the Democratic-controlled House approved a measure requiring federal background checks for all firearms sales and transfers, the first major gun control legislation considered by Congress in nearly 25 years, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell blasts Pelosi for failed anti-Semitism vote

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell acknowledged Monday that opponents of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border have enough votes in the Republican-led Senate to prevail on a resolution aimed at blocking the move. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell: Democrats’ election overhaul bill won’t get Senate vote

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

McConnell: Trump to include VA hospital in budget proposal

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters he can't say whether the Republican-controlled Senate will approve a resolution to block President Donald Trump's emergency declaration on immigration, during a news conference after a closed-door GOP meeting with Vice President Mike Pence, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. The House later voted to block President Trump's emergency declaration, a measure intended get him billions of extra dollars to build his border wall. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AP FACT CHECK: McConnell’s misleading spin on voting fraud

By HOPE YEN and ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks into the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, after President Donald Trump says a deal has been made to reopen the government for three weeks. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell says Green New Deal vote still looming; Dems protest ‘sham’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's 9th Congressional race, fights back tears at the conclusion of his son John Harris's testimony during the third day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th Congressional District voting irregularities investigation Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh.(Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, Pool) **FiLE**

Republicans see double standard in North Carolina ballot-harvesting voting scandal

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

A proposal by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, for a "Green New Deal" could put the U.S. in the red financially, analysts say. (U.S. House of Representatives)

Democrats in deliciously difficult spot with ‘Green New Deal’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber on the morning after House and Senate negotiators worked out a border security compromise hoping to avoid another government shutdown, at the Capitol in in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell wields Green New Deal as bludgeon against Dems

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., left, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, two of the border security negotiators, speaks with reporters about the bipartisan compromise worked out last night to avert another government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Border deal: Trump falls short on wall, Dems get less too

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, pauses for reporters as he and other senior bipartisan House and Senate negotiators try to strike a border security compromise in hope of avoiding another government shutdown, at the Capitol in in Washington, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: Trump appears to be ready to accept budget deal

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