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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y stands alongside Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during a campaign rally on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019, at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. (Bryon Houlgrave /The Des Moines Register via AP)

AOC, Sanders hatch $180 billion plan to guarantee housing for everyone

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Court rules Dems can demand 8 years of Trump's taxes

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, pauses for reporters at the Capitol in this Feb. 2019 file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Agreement to delay government shutdown is on shaky ground

The Capitol is seen in Washington, early Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Impeachment hearings for President Donald Trump come at the very time that Capitol Hill usually tends to its mound of unfinished business. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pact reached to avert government shutdown through Dec. 20

President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump weighs cease-fire in China trade war: 'Their supply chain is all broken, like an egg'

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., with ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., right, questions Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Defense nominee Mark Esper during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Congress' frustration mounts over stalled defense bill

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a town hall meeting at Grinnell College, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, in Grinnell, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Elizabeth Warren offers to meet with Bill Gates after hesitancy on wealth tax

A vehicle passes by a lawn sign calling for voters to cast ballots against a measure to dismantle part of Colorado's state tax laws on election day Tuesday, Nov. 5. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado Democrats seek to keep taxpayer refunds with ballot measure

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., campaigns Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. (AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter)

Elizabeth Warren says plan to pay for 'Medicare for All' will not raise taxes on middle class

In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo Billy Ramos, right, fills out a job application with Adidas during a job fair at Dolphin Mall in Miami. On Friday, Nov. 1, the U.S. government issues the October jobs report. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) ** FILE **

U.S. added a solid 128,000 jobs in October despite GM strike

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to the media with members of the Senate Republican leadership, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., McConnell, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, after their weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate spending impasse sets up shutdown fight

In this Oct. 22, 2019, file photo, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to members of the media following a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Chuck Schumer decries 'show votes' on spending package pushed by Republicans

Chairman Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks as U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel appears before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Senate eyes stripped-down defense policy bill

In this Oct. 7, 2019, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., addresses the Kentucky chapters conference of The Federalist Society at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Mitch McConnell pressures Dems to back defense funds that include financial aid for Ukraine

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at the J Street National Conference, with the hosts of "Pod Save the World," Tommy Vietor, left, and Ben Rhodes, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bernie Sanders: We will pay for 'every nickel' of 'Medicare for All'

Chairman Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks as U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel appears before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Lawmakers weigh punting tough issues on massive defense policy bill

Sen. Cory A. Booker of New Jersey backed the millionaire tax cut, which failed on a mostly party-line vote, but several of his rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination dodged the vote. (Associated Press/File)

Reversal of fortune: Senate Democrats demand millionaire tax cut, GOP blocks it

A woman enters a Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles drivers license service center, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Hialeah, Fla. The U.S. Census Bureau has asked the 50 states for drivers' license information, months after President Donald Trump ordered the collection of citizenship information. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Census Bureau seeks state data, including citizenship info

An ATF policeman goes to a vehicle as law enforcement and first responders block off the area around the McAnulty Acres apartment complex, as authorities continue their investigation of a shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue where multiple people were killed, on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, in Baldwin, Pa., a suburb south of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: ATF beleaguered by crisis in age of mass shootings

Congress returns to the Capitol this week after a two-week recess with an unclear vision of the annual National Defense Authorization Act. (Associated Press/File)

Syria troop drawdown, impeachment inquiry threaten Trump's proposed funding for defense, wall

In this Oct. 9, 2019, photo, Joe Schiavone, 81, stands in his workshop in West Melbourne, Fla. Schiavone will get a modest cost-of-living increase from Social Security for 2020, a political year in which many Democrats are calling for a boost in basic benefits and a more generous formula to compute annual inflation adjustments. (AP Photo/Mike Brown)

Social Security boost: Retiree checks to rise modestly amid push to expand benefits

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks in SEIU Unions For All Summit on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Joe Biden releases education plan that includes two free years of community college

Trump wins temporary reprieve after judge orders him to turn tax returns over to NY grand jury

Wheels of parmesan cheese are stored in a deli in Rome, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. The U.S. had prepared for Wednesday's ruling and already drawn up lists of the dozens of goods it would put tariffs on. They include EU cheeses, olives, and whiskey, as well as planes, helicopters and aircraft parts in the case _ though the decision is likely to require fine-tuning of that list if the Trump administration agrees to go for the tariffs. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Obscure trade fight threatens to ding French wines, Italian cheese

This Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, photo shows Bayou Steel in LaPlace, La. The steel mill unexpectedly laid off 376 employees and says the factory will shut down in November. The factory is St. John the Baptist Parish's largest employer. (Sophia Germer/The Advocate via AP)

Trump trade adviser slams John Bel Edwards for linking tariffs, shuttered steel plant

In this Sept. 17, 2019, photo job seekers line up to speak to recruiters during an Amazon job fair in Dallas. On Friday, Oct. 4, the U.S. government issues the September jobs report. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

U.S. adds 136,000 jobs; unemployment hits 50-year low of 3.5%

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during a gun safety forum Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Cory Booker releases plan to combat child poverty

President Donald Trump stands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before signing an agreement on trade at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York. From left, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Abe, Trump, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement deal backers say pact vital to future of economy, Trump agenda

In this June 29, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, western Japan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

Trump's tough trade tariffs on China have raked in $30 billion for U.S.

This June 12, 1962, photo shows Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Tony Ortega) ** FILE **

Senators chide NEA for spending taxpayer money on Che Guevara portrait

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