Inspector General Michael Horowitz is scheduled to appear at 10 a.m. before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He testified last week on the same topic before the Senate Judiciary Committee, asserting that the bureau was justified in opening the investigation but that FBI leaders should not take that as vindication, because of other, serious failures made after that.

President Donald Trump intervened to cut the federal government’s Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico as part of a larger government spending deal, according to four sources with knowledge of the discussions.

The budget deal unveiled by lawmakers this week allocates up to $5.7 billion in Medicaid funds for the island over two years — instead of $12 billion over four years that Republican and Democratic leaders on two key congressional committees had endorsed after months of negotiating a long-term financial path for Puerto Rico

House Democrats said today they are appealing a district judge’s order requiring them to alert President Trump if they seek his state tax returns under a recently passed New York law…

The dispute focuses on a New York law approved by Democrats there in July that grants House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) access to the president’s state returns upon request.

Judge Rosemary M. Collyer :

“When FBI personnel misled (the Justice Department) in the ways described above, they equally misled the FISC,” Collyer wrote. “The FBI’s handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the (inspector general) report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” expected of FISC filings.

Well, this is a shocker.