Dan Crenshaw

WASHINGTON (AP) — During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S. soil.

Lawmakers advanced the bills in hopes of securing a floor vote before the November election.

'We have restored the flags'

‘Everyone one of us had questions that we wanted to ask, we felt we didn’t get any of the responses that were necessary,’ one senator tells the director.

Controversial measures in a House-passed immigration bill would likely act as “poison pills” designed to kill aid to Ukraine.