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Day 404: Taking things seriously.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018
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1/ Jared Kushner's security clearance was downgraded from "Interim Top Secret" to "Interim Secret."
2/ Robert Mueller moved to dismiss 22 tax and bank fraud charges against Rick Gates.
3/ Trump tapped Brad Parscale to manage his 2020 presidential re-election campaign.
4/ Hope Hicks refused to answer questions under instructions from the White House during a closed-door House Intelligence Committee session today on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
5/ A Department of Housing and Urban Development offer was demoted and replaced after she refused to illegally fund a redecoration of Ben Carson's office.
6/ The Supreme Court ruled that immigrants facing deportation are not entitled to periodic bond hearings.
7/ Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation in both chambers of Congress to reverse the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules.
8/ The NSA director told lawmakers that he has not received orders from Trump to stop Russian hacking operations targeting U.S. elections.
poll/ 58% of Americans don't think Trump is taking the Russia investigation seriously enough.
poll/ 48% of Americans believe it is likely or very likely that Russia will meddle in the upcoming midterm elections.
NOTABLES.
The EPA is dissolving a program that funds studies on the effects of pollution and chemical exposure on adults and children.
Bob Corker will not run for reelection after all.
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called for John Kelly to resign, citing low White House morale.
Melania Trump parted ways with her senior adviser and friend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, after news surfaced that Wolkoff's firm had received $26 million to plan Trump's inauguration and surrounding events in January 2017.
The lieutenant governor in Georgia threatened to kill a tax cut for Delta after the airline eliminated its discount for NRA members.
Obama: "We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us. I know that seems like a low bar."
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