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Congressional committees moved on September 9 to investigate Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine role and the decision to freeze aid, while the whistleblower complaint that would drive the next phase of the crisis was formally in the pipeline. What had been a murky internal hold was now edging into open scandal territory, with lawmakers asking whether military assistance was being leveraged for Trump’s political benefit.
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Congressional committees moved on September 9 to investigate Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine role and the decision to freeze aid, while the whistleblower complaint that would drive the next phase of the crisis was formally in the pipeline. What had been a murky internal hold was now edging into open scandal territory, with lawmakers asking whether military assistance was being leveraged for Trump’s political benefit.
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Congressional committees moved on September 9 to investigate Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine role and the decision to freeze aid, while the whistleblower complaint that would drive the next phase of the crisis was formally in the pipeline. What had been a murky internal hold was now edging into open scandal territory, with lawmakers asking whether military assistance was being leveraged for Trump’s political benefit.
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