“Trump administration officials have concluded that President Donald Trump has the authority to entirely abolish protected areas set aside as national monuments by past presidents, according to a legal opinion released Tuesday by the Department of Justice,” the Washington Post reports.
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Trump to Ramp Up Transfers to Guantánamo
“The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, starting as early as this week,” the Washington Post reports.
“The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries. They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, but also other parts of the world, including many from Haiti.”
Lawmakers Traded Around Trump’s Tariff Announcements
“In the days before President Donald Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were tied to thousands of dollars’ worth of stock transactions, including significant purchases as the US stock market tumbled,” CNN reports.
Most GOP Lawmakers Skipping Trump’s Parade
Politico surveyed 50 GOP lawmakers and only seven said they planned to attend President Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
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Rubio Presses to Open Sanctions Investigation Into Harvard
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted by the U.S. government,” the New York Times reports.
Trump Says ‘Deal With China Is Done’
“President Trump said Wednesday the U.S. deal with China was done, subject to final approval from himself and Chinese leader Xi Jinping,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Trump said China would supply critical rare earths and magnets “up front,” and Chinese students would be able to attend U.S. colleges and universities.
Said Trump: “We are getting a total of 55% tariffs, China is getting 10%.
Politician Invites All to Join Him on Swingers Trip
“A German politician has invited his entire country to join him on an epic nudist swinger holiday in his efforts to promote ‘niche tourism’ in his municipality,” the Daily Mail reports.
Trump Flubs Dig at Biden’s Intelligence
President Trump hurled another insult at Joe Biden, declaring that his predecessor was never the “sharpest bulb,” the Daily Beast reports.
Trump seemingly confused the idioms “not the sharpest tool in the shed” and “not the brightest bulb” to indicate that someone is lacking intelligence.
South Korea Halts Loudspeaker Broadcasts
“South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean border, marking the new liberal government’s first concrete step toward easing tensions between the war-divided rivals,” the AP reports.
Trump Says He Might Deploy Military to Other Cities
President Trump warned that he would send troops into other cities in the U.S. should rioting and disorder similar to that seen in Los Angeles break out, and with “greater force,” Newsweek reports.
Trump called the deployment of National Guard troops in California “the first, perhaps, of many.”
He added: “You know, we didn’t attack this one very strongly. You’ll have them all over the country. I can inform the rest of the country that when they do it, if they do it, they’re going to be met with equal or greater force than we met right here.”
ICE Seeks New Ways to Ramp Up Arrests
“Demands from the White House for a drastic increase in arrests of people who have entered the country illegally have pushed immigration officials into overdrive to fulfill President Trump’s pledge of mass deportations,” the New York Times reports.
“Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is carrying out workplace raids across the country like the one in the garment district of Los Angeles last week that kicked off protests and a vast federal response. The agency is staggering shifts so agents are available seven days a week to try to meet arrest goals and asking criminal investigators who usually focus on issues like human trafficking to help identify targets. It is also asking the public to call in tips to report illegal immigration.”
Trump Looks for Ways to Punish California
“The Trump administration is considering cutting federal education funds to California,” Politico reports.
“The discussion comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump feud over the president’s deployment of the National Guard to LA to stop immigration protests,” Politico reports.
Gavin Newsom Refuses to Bend a Knee
Playbook: “Newsom, for his part, delivered a pretty extraordinary address to the nation last night, in which he sought to position himself as the leader of America’s anti-Trump opposition. Speaking directly to camera in a crisp, eight-minute monologue, Newsom denounced Trump’s aggressive deployment of ICE officers and military forces in LA — before raising his eyes to horizons far beyond his own state.”
Said Newsom: “This isn’t just about protests here in Los Angeles. This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes.”
Ana Navarro to CNN: “I have been so thirsty for somebody that is not cowardly, bending the knee and selling out to Donald Trump as he does all of this to America.”
The Wall Street Journal describes Newsom as “the leader of the opposition.”
Trump Plans to Phase Out FEMA
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s long-term plans to dismantle the disaster relief agency and shift responsibility for response and recovery onto states,” CNN reports.
Said Trump: “We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level. A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”
Trump Pushes GOP to Go on Offense
Punchbowl News: “Top administration officials are aggressively making the case to GOP senators that the massive Republican reconciliation bill is a political winner — and that they should be going on offense to sell it. It comes as Democrats hammer vulnerable Republicans over Medicaid cuts and other controversial provisions in the reconciliation package.”
“During a lunch meeting at the NRSC on Tuesday, Trump’s political team, led by White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, presented polling data to Senate Republicans showing that key elements of the bill are popular with the public.”
“The polling data centered on individual tax provisions that are major Trump priorities, including no taxes on tips and overtime pay, according to GOP senators and a White House official. Senate Republicans have indicated they want to impose limits on the latter due, in part, to the cost.”
Immigration Raid Leaves Company Officials Puzzled
“Immigration authorities raided an Omaha meat production plant Tuesday morning and took dozens of workers away in buses, leaving company officials bewildered because they said they had followed the law,” Politico reports.
Said company president Chad Hartmann: “My biggest issue is: Why us? We do everything by the book.”
“The plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system ‘is broken.'”
Is Immigration Crackdown Showing Up in Labor Market?
“The immigration crackdown may already be starting to show up in the job market,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Employment growth in industries that rely heavily on unauthorized workers has slowed. There has been a large decline in the foreign-born labor force since March. And recent immigrants appear more reluctant to take part in the Labor Department’s monthly survey of households.”
Hungarians Declare Resistance to Orbán
“Around 15,000 protesters filled a square in Hungary’s capital Tuesday in what organizers called the beginning of a resistance movement against the government of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán,” the AP reports.
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