U.S. lawmakers are returned to Congress from their summer recess on Tuesday, Sept. 2, with a packed and controversial break. Keeping the federal government funded past the end of its fiscal year on Sept. 30 is a perennial and looming problem. But a scandal that’s testing the loyalty of even Donald Trump’s most fervent base is now also in the hands of a congressional investigation. CGTN's Owen Fairclough has more.

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