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If Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Trump can't strike an infrastructure deal, key Democrats say they should push their own partisan bill through the House ahead of the 2020 elections.

That strategy, backers argue, would demonstrate to voters that they're making good on the campaign promises that won them the lower chamber last year — and remain focused on those bread-and-butter issues looking ahead.

After the White House announced it's deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the Middle East to counter threats from Iran, Democratic lawmakers warned that President Donald Trump is "inching" toward war.

Some experts say these fears are overblown, but others are concerned that Trump doesn't understand the risks of a military confrontation with Iran.

Attorney General William Barr made "a huge strategic mistake" summarizing the Mueller report, House Oversight Committee member Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said Thursday, adding, "the country wants to hear from Bob Mueller."

He urged the special counsel to testify.

"I really think that's what going to help bring closure to this," Khanna said on "America's Newsroom." "The Justice Department has said he can testify, we want him to testify. I think, frankly, he has more credibility than any of us in Congress, anyone in the media."

Attorney General William Barr is facing calls to resign from Democratic lawmakers who take issue with the way he publicly presented the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 election.

The most dramatic call came Wednesday during Barr's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) characterized the attorney general as a liar who served to protect President Donald Trump rather than to impartially analyze the Mueller report.

Since the dawn of the Drug War, federal legislators have stood by, or even applauded, as millions of Americans have racked up convictions for marijuana offenses — with arrests increasing in the latest FBI crime statistics, despite nearly a dozen states having already legalized cannabis. But over the past two years, and now accelerating with Democrats in charge of the House of Representatives, federal marijuana reform has become a hot topic on the Hill.

America's military budget is set to grow for a fifth consecutive year to near-historic highs in 2020, as lawmakers push increases in defense spending for next year despite opposition from some liberals in Congress and deficit hawks.

The Trump administration has proposed $750 billion in defense spending as part of its budget request to Congress for next year, as well as steep cuts to domestic programs in health care and education.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued the second veto of his presidency after Congress in April passed a resolution defying his stance on US support for the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemen conflict.

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who led the charge on this resolution, slammed Trump for his decision.

"The people of Yemen desperately need humanitarian help, not more bombs," Sanders said in a tweet Tuesday night. "I am disappointed, but not surprised, that Trump has rejected the bi-partisan resolution to end U.S. involvement in the horrific war in Yemen."

WASHINGTON – Even before President Donald Trump vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have forced him to end the U.S. military's role in Yemen's horrific war, lawmakers were already looking for other ways to confront the administration over this controversial policy.