New Democratic congresswoman says “impeach the motherfucker” in video: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat just sworn in for her first term, has generated headlines after a video showed her using an expletive in connection with the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump.

“We’re gonna go in there, we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker,” says Tlaib, the first Muslim woman ever elected to Congress, as shown in the video below:

Tlaib on Friday responded to the attention with a tweet reading: “I will always speak truth to power. #unapologeticallyMe.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly swatted down impeachment talk, but her fellow California Democrat, Rep. Brad Sherman, has moved to reintroduce articles of impeachment against the president, the Hill reports.

Trump on Friday said Tlaib “dishonored” herself and her family with her comment, adding that her remark was “highly disrespectful” to the country.

Senate Republicans will end shutdown, says budget expert: Senate Republicans will have to force an end to the shutdown, says budget expert Stan Collender in a USA Today op-ed.

Collender, known for his Budget Guy blog, sees Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republicans feeling “political pain that convinces Trump an override of his veto — an outright defiance — could or will happen and, therefore, a face-saving effort is needed.”

Colorado’s Cory Gardner on Thursday became the first GOP senator to call for a spending deal without funding for Trump’s proposed border wall, a Fox News report noted.

Shutdown-related worries have contributed in sending the stock market SPX, -1.20% sharply lower in recent weeks, before Friday’s powerhouse rally saw the blue-chip Dow DJIA, -0.81% surge more than 800 points intraday in a bid to recoup a day-earlier plunge of 660 points.

House Democrats are unveiling their first major legislative package: Automatic voter registration, independent redistricting commissions, super PAC restrictions, forced release of presidential tax returns — these are just a handful of the provisions in a massive government overhaul package that House Democrats formally unveiled Friday, according to a Roll Call report.

The package includes several Democratic bills that have gone nowhere in previous Congresses where Republicans held the House majority, the report added. The measures face a tough road to becoming law given the GOP controls the Senate and the White House.

Data show how EPA has backed off enforcement under Trump: A story from the Conversation says that data gathered from Environmental Protection Agency reports, as well as from the agency’s staffers and retirees, show the Trump administration has brought relatively few environmental enforcement actions to conclusion and deferred more to states.

For example, the EPA imposed civil penalties of just $58 million in fiscal year 2018, the lowest since at least 2006 by a wide margin.

The data collected show that EPA enforcement under Trump has been “meek and mild, often following the lead of regulated industry rather than acting as an independent, scientifically and statutorily driven regulator,” the story says.