CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House impeachment investigators issued a subpoena to President Donald Trump’s acting budget director Russ Vought, part of a round of subpoenas sent by the House Intelligence Committee. Also subpoenaed were Michael Duffey, a senior official in the Office of Management and Budget, and T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, counsel at the State Department. All three men declined recent requests by investigators to testify voluntarily. Vought and Duffey are expected to face questions about their knowledge of a White House decision to block military aid to Ukraine despite approval from Congress and the Pentagon. Vought on Twitter has laced into Democrats leading the impeachment probe. On Monday, he called any suggestion of cooperation with the impeachment investigation ‘fake news’ and appended the hashtag ‘#shamprocess’…Democrats have demanded Duffey appear on Nov. 5 and Vought to appear on Nov. 6, the same day as Brechbuhl.”
-Kyle Cheney, “Impeachment investigators issue subpoenas to 3 top Trump officials,” Politico, October 25, 2019 1:33 pm