WTF Just Happened Today

Thursday, October 5, 2017

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1/ Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, and Steven Mnuchin have a "suicide pact," where all three cabinet secretaries will leave in the event that Trump fires one of them.

2/ Trump criticized the Senate Intelligence Committee for continuing its investigation into possible collusion between Russia and his campaign.

3/ FBI director on Russian hacking: We "should have seen this coming."

4/ Two former CIA chiefs said Russia needed help targeting US voters and districts in the 2016 presidential campaign.

5/ With the GOP agenda at a standstill, some donors are closing their wallets and threatening to deprive Republicans of resources ahead of the 2018 midterms.

6/ The House GOP is expected to pass its budget today, which calls for more than $5 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade.

7/ The House Homeland Security Committee approved $10 billion for a border wall as part of a border security bill.

8/ Democrats introduced a bill to ban "bump stocks," a gun conversion kit that turns semiautomatic weapons into weapons capable of firing a continuous stream of bullets.