Tipsheet: Black Dems take lead in push to impeach Trump

View in your browser     Black Dems take lead in push to impeach Trump By Cristina Marcos and Mike Lillis   Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are proving central to efforts to impeach President Trump. Black lawmakers say that’s the result of Trump repeatedly stirring racial controversies, from personally attacking two members of the caucus to casting equal blame on white supremacists and counterprotesters for fatal violence in Charlottesville, Va., last summer. Read the full story here     Listen: Inside Congressional Republican's brainstorm retreat By Alexis Simendinger   The Hill’s Scott Wong describes goals of a congressional Republican retreat taking place in West Virginia. Listen to The Hill's podcast here     Schiff: Nunes gave Trump 'secretly altered' version of memo By John Bowden California Rep. Adam Schiff (D) claimed late Wednesday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) shared with President Trump a "secretly altered" version of the Republican-crafted memo alleging corrosive abuse of United States surveillance powers by the Justice Department.  Read the full story here     The Memo: Trump sticks to his guns on immigration agenda By Niall Stanage Donald Trump is going full-steam ahead with his immigration agenda, catering to his base with tough talk and trying to force a difficult choice on Democrats who have promised to protect immigrant communities. Read the full story here       Dems vow to repeal parts of GOP tax law By  Mike Lillis and Naomi Jagoda Democrats are vowing to undo parts of the GOP’s tax-code overhaul if they win back control of the House in November, hoping President Trump’s first major domestic achievement will be a liability for the Republicans in the midterm elections. Read the full story here     GOP lawmakers describe terrifying scene at train crash By Melanie Zanona A train carrying Republican lawmakers to their annual retreat in West Virginia crashed with a garbage truck in a crossing grade on Wednesday, killing one person in the truck and leaving several members of Congress injured. Read the full story here     Trey Gowdy announces retirement from Congress By Ben Kamisar Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, surprised Washington on Wednesday by announcing that he will not run for reelection. Read the full story here     CDC loses director amid flu outbreak By Jessie Hellmann The abrupt resignation Wednesday of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) comes at a difficult time for the agency, with officials fighting a deadly flu outbreak even as they seek to beat back proposed budget cuts from the White House.  Read the full story here     How much credit should Trump get for the economy? By Vicki Needham President Trump and the Republican Congress are putting economic stewardship at the center of their midterm messaging, hoping to reap the election rewards from the steady growth in jobs, strong consumer confidence and a bullish stock market. Read the full story here     House GOP warming to ObamaCare fix By Peter Sullivan Key House Republicans are warming to a proposal aimed at bringing down ObamaCare premiums, raising the chances of legislative action this year to stabilize the health-care law. Read the full story here     Trump stuck to the script but gave Americans nothing of substance By Former Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Penn.) OPINION | I believe that Donald Trump has been the worst United States president in my lifetime and most of what he has done in the first year has been a calamitous disaster and has threatened to erode our position as the leader of the free world. Read the full story here     Let FISA answer whether Justice Department botched Carter Page wiretap By Gregory J. Wallace OPINION | A burning issue of the day is whether the Department of Justice misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in an application for a wiretap on Carter Page, a largely obscure and somewhat flaky Trump campaign associate suspected of being a Russian agent. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: FBI in public fight with Trump over releasing Russia memo By Chad Day, Jonathan Lemire and Eric Tucker In a remarkably public clash of wills with the White House, the FBI declared Wednesday it has “grave concerns” about the accuracy of a classified memo on the Russia election investigation that President Donald Trump wants released. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: FBI’s pushback on GOP memo could land its director in Trump’s crosshairs By Matt Zapotosky It is highly unusual for the White House and the FBI to be so publicly at odds over a matter of national security, and it was unclear what impact the disagreement over a controversial House Intelligence Committee memo might have on the standing of FBI Director Christopher A. Wray. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: FBI officials knew of new Clinton emails weeks before alerting Congress By Del Quentin Wilber and Aruna Viswanatha Andrew McCabe learned of thousands of emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop at least a month before alerting lawmakers. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Special counsel zeros in on a Trump Tower cover story By Jo Becker, Mark Mazzetti, Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman   Donald Trump Jr.’s response to questions about his 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians was drafted on Air Force One last summer and was later shown to provide misleading information. Read the full story here     Reuters: US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin urges Congress to raise debt ceiling as another shutdown looms By Reuters Staff   U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday called on the Republican-controlled Congress to lift the federal debt limit “as soon as possible” so the government can pay employee benefits and other obligations. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for The Hill Tipsheet       Forward this Tipsheet     You might like         Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2016 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.