The Washington Post reports, Trump to hold news conference on census as he mulls executive action to add a citizenship question: President Trump said Thursday that he will hold a news conference later in the day on his administration’s efforts to place a controversial citizenship question on the 2020 Census. The event in the Rose … Read more
America’s Midwest is experiencing the worst flooding since the Great Food of 1993. “Many farmers across wide swaths of the Midwest have rarely seen days dry enough to work, leading to what agricultural experts are calling a historically delayed planting season that could exacerbate the economic and personal anxieties brought on by a multiyear slump … Read more
Jonathan Swan warns at Axios, “President Trump and his chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, have realized they’re passing no major legislation through this divided Congress.” Trump goes it alone: [T]he Trump team is busy figuring out ways to go over the heads of Congress. The one exception is drug pricing.) What to expect: More executive orders, … Read more
Tuesday’s vote in the House on the resolution to reverse President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the Mexico border is A litmus test ‘to preserve, to protect, and to defend the Constitution of the United States’. But as the headline at Daily Kos says, On Tuesday, Americans can watch Republicans betray the Constitution—and … Read more
As was expected from the first time the idea was first floated, 16 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall: A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars … Read more