Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said last week that a president should never “hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative. Period.” Representative Francis Rooney, Republican of Florida who announced that he will not run for re-election, refused to rule out supporting impeachment. John Kasich, the former Republican governor of Ohio, said impeachment should move forward. During remarks at the White House, the president blasted House Democrats for pursuing impeachment, calling the effort to oust him “very bad for our country” and suggesting that dealing with the inquiry was getting in the way of more important presidential actions. “In the midst of that, I’m trying to get our country out of wars,” Mr. Trump said.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2019 19:41 UTC