Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rapped Benghazi Committee chairman Congressman Trey Gowdy for backing Florida Senator Marco Rubio and for not doing well in the 2012 Benghazi attack investigation.
The US Department of Justice has temporarily suspended its asset forfeiture program, due to the $1.2 billion budget cuts.
The latest “omnibus” spending bill compensate the 53 Americans who were held hostage in Iran for 444 days in 1979. Each will receive $4.4 million, or $10,000 a day they were held.
The Obama administration wants the Supreme Court to rule that Puerto Rico remains a dependent US Territory and not an independent “sovereign,” contradicting the nation’s autonomy that it gained in the 1952 constitution.
