Keeping the special counsel on the payroll makes it easier for the attorney general to block him from appearing before Congress.

Steven Mnuchin tells the House Ways and Means Committee’s chairman that the panel’s request ‘lacks a legitimate legislative purpose’ as Supreme Court precedent requires

The move would allow the student athletes to play professional sports upon graduation from West Point and the other service academies.

The attorney general has thus far failed to comply with a Congressional subpoena.