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A freshman GOP congressman said Tuesday he would like to President Donald Trump follow through on his threat to end healthcare subsidies for lawmakers.

One House Republican thinks President Trump should follow through on his threat to cancel some of lawmakers' health benefits if Congress doesn't send a healthcare bill to his desk.

Another conservative House lawmaker is calling for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to resign, arguing that he has a conflict of interest that should disqualify him from running the Justice Department's probe of potential connections between President Trump's surrogates and the Kremlin.

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), a staunch conservative and one of the more senior members of the House Judiciary Committee, argued that Mueller and former FBI director James B. Comey have "a close friendship" and that Mueller "appears to be a partisan arbiter of justice."

Republican leadership in Congress and the White House formally gave up pushing a border-adjustment tax last week, dropping one of the more divisive elements of the party's efforts at changing tax laws.

The idea, known as BAT, ran into stiff opposition from both giant retailers like Walmart and smaller Arizona businesses like Accurate Signs and Engraving in Phoenix.

When people invoke the Beltway, it usually means something bad. Especially to Arizonans 2,000 miles away, the Beltway represents a far-off, out-of-touch elite, intent on telling us how to live our lives while they desperately grope for more power.

Nothing reflects this fact as powerfully as Washington, D.C.'s control of our most fundamental resource: the ground beneath our feet.

As President Donald Trump calls for the Justice Department to probe the actions of his vanquished opponent, Hillary Clinton, four Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee want another look at the FBI's investigation of the Clinton email scandal.