House Democrats are giving the Trump administration a hard deadline of April 23 to turn over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, pushing back against Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s skepticism over their request for the private records.
Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, on Saturday sent a two-page letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig rebuffing Mnuchin’s statement last week that Treasury would miss House Democrats’ initial April 10 deadline for the returns.
Mnuchin’s concerns “lack merit,” Neal wrote.

Here are 5 facts to know about Vermont senator Bernie Sanders before the coming 2020 Presidential campaign. Sanders will take part in a town hall on Fox News Channel hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Monday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m. ET in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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At 8:00a.m. Friday, Israel Railways was forced to stop all train traffic throughout Israel due to the fact that nearly half of the National Railways Command’s traffic controllers “called in sick,” leading to chaos at several train stations.
Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David ordered Israel Railways’ Employees’ Committee to immediately locate substitutes for the missing controllers and the trains were able to return to normal operations.

Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday honored the memory of the 11 Jewish worshippers who were killed in October 2018 at the Tree of Life Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
The joint session in the state’s House of Representatives in the capital, Harrisburg, was attended by nearly two-dozen relatives of the victims.
The opening prayer was conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of the New Light Congregation, which was one of the three services taking place at the synagogue during the shooting.

The violent weekly riots along the Israel-Gaza border, known as the “March of the Return”, resumed on Friday. An IDF spokesman told AFP that around “approximately 4,700 rioters and demonstrators” took part in various incidents along the frontier.
The Hamas-run “health ministry” in Gaza claimed a 15-year-old Palestinian Arab teenager was shot dead by the Israeli army during the renewed clashes.
At least 48 others were taken to hospital with a variety of injuries from clashes at several spots along the border, the ministry said without elaborating.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz discusses the censorship of conservatives by big tech on ‘Fox News @ Night.’
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday took a swipe at a Trump White House proposal to retaliate against political enemies by releasing detained migrants in “sanctuary cities” in Democratic strongholds, calling the half-hatched plan “disrespectful” and “unworthy” of the presidency.
One of the congressional districts identified by the Trump administration was Pelosi’s liberal San Francisco district, according to The Washington Post.
“I don’t know anything about it, but again it’s just another notion that is unworthy of the presidency of the United States and disrespectful of the challenges that we face as a county, as a people, to address who we are: a nation of immigrants,” Pelosi told reporters as House Democrats closed out their three-day policy retreat in Virginia.

Georgetown University could become the first college in the nation to mandate a fee to benefit descendants of slaves sold by the university nearly 200 years ago after a student referendum passed by almost a 2-to-1 margin.
The school’s undergraduates voted Thursday on the referendum, which would increase tuition by $27.20 per semester to create a fund benefiting descendants of the 272 slaves sold to pay off the Georgetown Jesuits’ debt — a move that saved the university financially.
“The Jesuits sold my family and 40 other families so you could be here,” sophomore Melisande Short-Colomb, a Georgetown student, said during a town hall to discuss the issue last week.

The White House tried to pressure immigration authorities into releasing captured immigrants into sanctuary cities, particularly targeting liberal strongholds in hopes of hurting Democrats, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The report noted that the White House has attempted to pitch the idea to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at least twice since November. The White House suggested both transporting migrants who were captured at the border and those currently being held in facilities to sanctuary cities where local authorities don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement authorities.
The Post reported that the proposal sought to ease the bed shortage at immigration detention centers and “send a message to Democrats.”