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Posted: Mon 22 May , 2017 2:30 pm
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Flynn refuses to comply with Senate subpoena:
http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... ent-report
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Former national security adviser Michael Flynn will invoke his Fifth Amendment protection and not comply with a Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena, the Associated Press reported Monday.

Flynn was subpoenaed in the committee’s investigation into Russian meddling and potential ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russian officials.

Surprise, surprise. Trump doesn't believe in ethics oversight.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ts-working
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President Trump’s White House is looking to block an effort from the government’s top ethics office to disclose the names of former lobbyists who have been granted waivers to work in the federal government, according to a new report.

The New York Times reports that the White House sent a letter to the head of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) challenging its legal authority to request that information.

“It is an extraordinary thing,” Walter Shaub Jr., the director of the ethics office, told the Times. “I have never seen anything like it.”
More attempts to weaken environmental regulations, by the House GOP and Trump.
Interestingly, the first results from a court judgement:
http://thehill.com/regulation/334237-week-ahead
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The House Rules Committee is scheduled to take up the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act, reintroduced by Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio), on Monday, with a floor vote likely later in the week.

The legislation would amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA). It would eliminate the need for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for using pesticides already approved for use under FIFRA.

The requirement is the result of a 2009 decision in National Cotton Council v. EPA in which the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with the EPA's conclusion that pesticides applied in accordance with FIFRA are exempt from the Clean Water Act's permitting requirements.

Once again, Trump wants to slash the EPA budget. Congress may or may not go along with it.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... ump-budget
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Under the March proposal, the EPA was due to absorb a 31 percent funding cut. If enacted, that plan would discontinue funding for programming, research and diplomatic efforts related to climate change, end more than 50 EPA programs and cut 3,200 of the agency's 15,000 jobs.

Trump also wants to cut Medicaid and Food Stamps (and build his wall, of course):
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... s-programs
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President Trump’s first major budget proposal will include sweeping cuts to Medicaid, federal pensions and food stamps, according to new reports.

The Washington Post reports that Trump’s budget will include $800 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next 10 years, which would cause 10 million low-income people to lose health benefits.

...Trump’s budget reportedly includes a massive $193 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the modern version of food stamps, over the next 10 years, slashing its budget by more than 25 percent. The food stamp cuts are part of a broader $274 billion cut that’s labeled welfare reform, according to the Associated Press.

The budget also contains $1.6 billion in funding for Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a larger $2.6 billion spending hike for border security programs.


More threats to stop funding healthcare payments and destabilize Obamacare.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/33 ... es-reports
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President Trump is considering pulling the plug on key ObamaCare subsidies, Politico reported Friday, citing remarks the president has made to advisers.


Commerce Secretary praises the lack of protesters in Saudi Arabia. (seriously, do the people in Trump's administration know anything about the countries they deal with?)
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... umps-saudi
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday praised the lack of protests during President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia.

“There was not a single hint of a protestor anywhere there during the whole time we were there,” Ross said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “Not one guy with a bad placard.”

Host Rebcca Quick noted that the Saudi Arabian government did not allow political protests.

The transcript of Trump's Saudi Arabia speech is here, for anyone interested:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/t ... s-in-saudi
One thing I noticed is that it includes a few lines that essentially say: thanks to the countries that have taken Middle Eastern refugees, and refugees, please stay in the Middle East. It did make me roll my eyes when he tries to make it a supposed benefit to the Middle East that they house/keep these refugees.


A view about the speech and what it indicates about this administration's Saudi policies, from the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... ddle-east/


Trump's buddies thinking about attacking the Obama administration, as a way to take the focus off Trump's mistakes?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/18/tr ... legations/
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President Donald Trump’s inner circle is war-gaming how best to respond to the Washington Post’s bombshell report that he shared classified intelligence with the Russians about an Islamic State plot, sensitive information reportedly passed to the United States by Israel.

One option under consideration? Attack former President Barack Obama and his administration over their handling of sensitive data, in particular through one information-sharing program regarding cybersecurity threats.

According to a source with knowledge of a White House meeting that took place Wednesday morning, Trump’s team is considering launching an investigation into a Department of Homeland Security program that shares information on cyberattacks in an effort to coordinate globally on countering digital threats, insinuating that it inappropriately opened up streams of sensitive data to Russia and other nonallies. Another option under consideration is placing a story in the media about the program, similarly accusing it of sharing sensitive information.

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Senate won't hold Flynn in contempt of Congress defying the subpoena?
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/s ... to-testify
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is downplaying the chances that the Senate will try to hold Michael Flynn, President Trump's former national security advisor, in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena.
"It's his constitutional right. I don't criticize anybody for embracing their constitutional rights," Cornyn, the Senate majority whip, told reporters on Monday.

Manafort and Stone turned over over the documents requested of them. Carter Page also seems to refusing:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... nate-intel


Trump administration delays another Obama admin safety rule:
http://thehill.com/regulation/labor/334 ... afety-rule
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The Labor Department on Monday delayed the agency's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) rule, the day before it was set to go into effect.

...The rule called for mine operators to examine new sites before sending miners to work and alert the workers to dangers if hazardous conditions are not fixed promptly. It also called for operators to keep track of places they examined, any hazards identified there and when the problems were fixed.

It looks like Trump's criticism-free days were over after he left Saudi Arabia:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ter-speech
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An Israeli telecom company on Monday aired a new commercial parodying President Trump following his speech in Israel.

The ad from Bezeq features Israeli actor Gidi Gov promoting a secure internet service called Smart New while pretending to be Trump.

...The spot ends with a man in a bathrobe walking into the meeting and asking “what the hell is going on” in Trump’s voice. The fake Trump is then escorted out while shouting “Crooked Hillary” and “not the hair, not the hair” in Hebrew.

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I thought that was Sauron looking in. ;)

Some things that may be of interest:


http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... a-hearings
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[Former CIA Director John Brennan] told lawmakers that he had seen intelligence showing that people involved in Trump’s campaign had interactions with Russian officials that “concerned” him.

He argued that it was beyond the operational purview of the CIA to determine whether there was any evidence of collusion — that’s the FBI’s job, he said — but “there was a sufficient basis of information and intelligence that required further investigation by the bureau.”

... Testimony by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was shadowed by a news story published in The Washington Post the previous day that said he and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers refused requests from the president that they deny the existence of any evidence of collusion in the election.

...The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday announced that they were issuing two additional subpoenas for businesses associated with former national security adviser Michael Flynn.


... Democrats have criticized the GOP focus on leaks as a partisan attempt to shield the president — but the issue received a serious response from both current and former administration officials on Tuesday. Brennan offered a stinging criticism of the leaks to the media that exposed Trump’s conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... es-top-dem
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The House Intelligence Committee will issue subpoenas to former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its investigation into Russian election interference, the committee’s top Democrat confirmed Wednesday.

Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.) told reporters he intends to subpoena Flynn’s businesses, following in the footsteps of the Senate Intelligence Committee. That panel on Tuesday issued a second round of subpoenas directed at two Alexandria, Va., companies associated with Flynn — Flynn Intel Inc. and Flynn Intel LLC.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ssia-probe
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President Trump plans to retain Marc Kasowitz as his personal attorney to represent him in the federal investigation into his campaign’s alleged ties to Russia, according to media reports.

Fox Business and ABC News reported that Trump is expected to bring aboard the New York-based lawyer, who has represented Trump numerous times in the past.



http://thehill.com/policy/defense/33496 ... -president
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A call transcript between President Trump and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte reveals that Trump boasted about two U.S. nuclear submarines near North Korea.
...The Defense Department historically does not reveal the locations of its submarines, since keeping the vessels’ movements secret is key to their missions.

...Buzzfeed News reported that Pentagon officials are alarmed by Trump’s disclosure. Revealing that submarines are in the region is not the same as addressing how many there are and that they are near North Korea, as Trump did.

...Trump was widely criticized by members of both parties for praising Duterte on the call for his handling of drug problems in his country, which has included the extrajudicial killing of thousands of drug users and dealers, and for inviting the controversial leader to meet with him in the White House. “If you want to come to the Oval Office, I will love to have you in [the] Oval Office. Anytime you want to come,” Trump said, according to the transcript.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/33495 ... ia-meeting
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Israel has changed its intelligence-sharing protocols with the United States after President Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information to Russian diplomats that had come from Israel, according to a Wednesday interview with Israel's defense minister.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/33476 ... mps-budget
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President Trump's fiscal 2018 budget proposal would completely eliminate 66 federal programs, for a savings of $26.7 billion. Some of the programs would receive funding for 2018 as part of a phasing-out plan. Here are the programs the administration wants on the chopping block.
More budget details:
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... ions-catch
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TRUMP'S CONTROVERSIAL OIL PLANS: President Trump's budget proposal unveiled Tuesday has three oil-related provisions that are proving controversial in Congress.

The administration wants to sell off half of the nation's emergency oil reserve, open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska to oil drilling, and end offshore drilling revenue sharing with Gulf Coast states,


Although the proposed budget doesn't seem to have much support in Congress, even among the GOP.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/33486 ... d-shoulder
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Republican leaders in Congress say they will go their own way on spending and largely ignore the budget President Trump sent to Congress on Tuesday, underlining a divide between the White House and his congressional allies on spending issues.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... -escalates
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An escalating feud between the White House and the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) has boiled over, with the Trump administration refusing to produce waivers it has granted to lobbyists that allow them to work in government agencies.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/33498 ... cs-request
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Sixty lawmakers on Wednesday signed a letter calling on White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney to comply with rules that require the administration to disclose ethics waivers. The letter, spearheaded by Reps. Tom O’Halleran (D-Ariz.) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), asks that members of the Trump administration submit the waivers required by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE).

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... els-report
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The Trump Organization has not been tracking all possible payments it receives from foreign governments, despite President Trump’s promise to donate all profits earned from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury in an effort to avoid conflicts of interest, according to a new report.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/h ... ax-returns
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For the eighth time in the last three months, House Republicans on Wednesday voted down an effort by Democrats to make President Trump’s tax returns available to Congress.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3348 ... nfo-report
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Senate Democrats claimed Wednesday the Trump administration has instructed federal agencies to not cooperate with their inquiries on issues ranging from the Russia probe to ethics waivers for senior administration officials.

"We write to express our concerns with recent reports that the White House may have instructed certain Federal agencies to refuse requests for information from Democratic members of Congress," the Democratic senators wrote in a letter first reported by The Washington Post.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/33 ... trump-joke
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) won't take any action against late night host Stephen Colbert over a controversial joke about President Trump, the agency said Tuesday.

...“The Bureau has concluded that there was nothing actionable under the FCC’s rules," the FCC said in a Tuesday statement, according to Variety.

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The CBO score for the House healthcare bill is out. No surprises in there for most people, I expect, though some of the bill's supporters are acting surprised and outraged.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/33 ... s-backlash
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The Republican healthcare bill would result in 23 million fewer people with insurance over a decade, steep premium increases for older people and price hikes for many people with pre-existing conditions, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Wednesday.

The long-awaited analysis of the ObamaCare repeal bill found that a controversial amendment from Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) — added at the last minute to secure conservative votes — would have a significant effect despite Republican assurances to the contrary.

....The report seemed to harden the resolve of Senate Republicans to move in a different direction. In a flurry of statements, Senate Republicans stressed that they are starting fresh on the healthcare bill and that it will be changed significantly — and scored again by the CBO — before it becomes law
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Protests against Trump in Belgium:
http://thehill.com/policy/international ... in-belgium
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News reports and social media posts showed thousands of demonstrators carrying signs and chanting in a rebuke of Trump, who once called the city a "hellhole" in the wake of terrorist plots.
...Capital police in Brussels reported a crowd of 9,000 protesters.

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This isn't about Trump, but related to the combative atmosphere he's encouraged against reporters. It also involves a special election to fill a seat left vacant by Zinke, the new Secretary of the Interior. Let's hope the charges and withdrawals of endorsements have consequences, and this guy doesn't get elected. Gianforte clearly has some anger management issues, violently attacking a reporter just for asking persistent questions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... -reporter/
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A Fox News reporter provided a vivid eyewitness account late Wednesday of an attack on a reporter by Montana Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte that led to him being cited for assault by the county sheriff and to lose his endorsements from two Montana newspapers ahead of the special election set for Thursday.

...“At that point,” she wrote, “Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him.” Gianforte was later cited for misdemeanor assault. The sheriff’s department said the incident did not meet the state’s statutory definition of felony assault.

Acuna and her crew “watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the reporter. As Gianforte moved on top of Jacobs, he began yelling something to the effect of, ‘I’m sick and tired of this!’”

Edit: Just unbelievable. Apparently some of the GOP won't even believe Fox news and the Montana sheriff, and trying to blame the victim/ press for Gianforte's violent outburst.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/33510 ... l-approach
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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) on Thursday put blame on "the left" for causing what he called a "tense, confrontational approach" after GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte allegedly slammed a reporter to the floor.

"The left has precipitated this tense, confrontational approach throughout the country in recent months," he said during an interview on MSNBC.

And Gianforte looks he's like a liar.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/335084 ... y-name-and
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Gianforte’s office offered a decidedly different account, saying Jacobs encroached on “a separate interview in a private office” and “aggressively shoved a recorder in Greg's face.”

“Jacobs was asked to leave. After asking Jacobs to lower the recorder, Jacobs declined. Greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. Jacobs grabbed Greg's wrist, and spun away from Greg, pushing them both to the ground,” said spokesman Shane Scanlon.
Mind you, there is not only the eyewitness account from Fox reporters in the other story, but The Guardian, Jacob's employer, has released an audio recording of it.





What looks like some gratuitous nastiness from Trump that's actually led to sympathy for Spicer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... y-for-him/
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So it came as a surprise to some on Wednesday when Spicer received an outpouring of sympathy. The reason: As President Trump met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Spicer — a Catholic — was noticeably absent from the entourage.

Those in attendance included first lady Melania Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, national security adviser H.R. McMaster; Hope Hicks, Trump’s communications adviser; Keith Schiller, his former bodyguard; and Dan Scavino, his social media manager. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are both Jewish but nonetheless met with the pontiff.

Meanwhile, Spicer, the highly visible White House aide who was reportedly excited to meet with Pope Francis, wasn’t there.
I feel sorry for him, myself. He's got a lousy job, with a boss who can't keep his story straight, and (unless there's something we don't know), this is just seems ugly.




http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3350 ... p-staffing
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Republicans in Congress are frustrated with how long it has taken for President Trump to staff up his administration and say the lack of progress in filling important sub-Cabinet positions has stalled the agenda.

GOP lawmakers say the president has dragged his feet on submitting nominees for Senate confirmation and needs to pick up the pace.
This article doesn't mention it, but some of the positions that haven't been filled yet are at the CDC. State Dept. positions are also unfilled, leading to worries about what will happen when the inevitable crisis comes and advisers are needed.



This is only tangentially related to Trump (though I still haven't heard that he's personally condemned these attacks), but there's more information about Erdogan's goons attacking protesters. Not that it will matter - they apparently have diplomatic immunity, and have left the country besides - but you have to wonder why Turkey feels able to be this bold with the U.S. I assume it has something to do with them knowing they're necessary to western interests in Syria. Nonetheless, it seems unusually blatant (their complaints to the US ambassador, even if Erdogan's personal involvement isn't real). Presumably, they also have things to lose if they antagonize other countries too much.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pol ... rs-in-d-c/
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Was Erdogan personally involved in his bodyguards’ attacks on protesters in D.C.?
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On Thursday afternoon, a new wrinkle: It turns out that Erdogan himself observed the brawl from the driveway of the ambassador’s residence. If you watch that video closely, though, you’ll notice something else. Right before the brawling starts, a man appears to receive instruction from Erdogan, who then signals to another man who walks down the driveway to the street — and the brawling begins seconds later.

https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archiv ... or/527637/
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Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador to Ankara on Monday to lodge a formal complaint with the U.S. for how it handled a brawl outside the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., last week.


...In its summons, the Turkish Foreign Ministry criticized “the inability of U.S. authorities to take sufficient precautions at every stage of the official program.” Turkey also claimed the protesters were affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Ankara views as a terrorist organization. The state-run Anadolu news agency also released an edited video that framed the fight as one between protesters and pro-government counter-protesters. It blames protesters for starting the fight by throwing water bottles at security guards.

btw, what happened to the title of this thread? We seem to have reverted to the old, no-longer-appropriate title about the election.

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Hmm, it looks like maybe CG changed it back (first post)? I don't really care what this thread is called, but if other people do, I assume someone could split it. I suppose we should talk about that under Business, not to osgilliate the thread too much.

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News on Trump's travel ban:
http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... travel-ban
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A Richmond, Va.-based federal appeals court on Thursday refused to reinstate President Trump’s ban on nationals from six majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S., delivering a major blow to the Trump administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html
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Wisconsin is preparing to recast its Medicaid program in ways that no state has ever done, requiring low-income adults to undergo drug screening to qualify for health coverage and setting time limits on assistance unless they work or train for a job.

The approach places BadgerCare, as the Wisconsin version of Medicaid is known, at the forefront of a movement by Republican governors and legislatures that is injecting a brand of moralism and individual responsibility into the nation’s largest source of public health insurance.

From Maine to Arizona, some states are seizing on an invitation by the Trump administration to redesign a program that was created as part of the 1960s Great Society and now covers 69 million Americans. Although President Trump and his advisers talk of tailor-made innovation to match need, the states’ strategies draw on a similar repertoire — monthly premiums for people below the poverty line, time limits for coverage and fees for emergency room visits, among others.
What I wonder is - if you don't pass the drug screening or the other requirements and no longer qualify for Medicaid, what exactly happens when you have a heart attack, get into an accident or come down with diabetes? Are you expected to just die?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
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Senate Republicans are threatening to change a custom that allows Democratic senators to block some judicial choices from their states, in an effort to speed along a conservative transformation of the federal judiciary. Leaders are considering a significant change to the Senate’s “blue slip” practice, which holds that judicial nominations will not proceed unless the nominee’s home-state senators signal their consent to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republicans say they would make the change if Democrats throw up blanket opposition to President Trump’s nominees.

Adherence to the custom has waxed and waned, depending on the views of Senate leaders. But the rule was strictly observed during the Obama administration, and GOP opposition to President Barack Obama’s nominees partly explains why Trump entered office with more than 120 judicial vacancies to fill.

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Gianforte wins despite assaulting reporter. Trump is very pleased.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... in-montana
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President Trump on Friday praised Greg Gianforte's win in Montana's House special election race a day earlier, calling it a "great win."

Trump arrived in Italy on Friday for a meeting of the G-7 nations as part of his first foreign trip as president. According to pool reports, Trump turned to cameras at the event and addressed the Montana election.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... obe-report
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President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has reportedly come under scrutiny in the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The FBI's focus on Kushner does not necessarily mean he is suspected of a crime, nor is he considered a subject of the bureau's wider Russia probe, like former national security adviser Michael Flynn, NBC News reported.

A more detailed look, from The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... tk/528255/
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On Thursday, NBC News and The Washington Post reported that investigators are looking into meetings Kushner held in December with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., and Sergey Gorkov, the head of Vnesheconombank (VEB), a state-owned Russian bank that previously financed a deal with Trump’s former business partner. An array of other outlets quickly confirmed those reports.


http://thehill.com/policy/technology/33 ... vacy-fight
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A new GOP House bill is putting internet privacy back in the spotlight, just weeks after President Trump signed legislation killing privacy protections passed during the Obama administration. The new bill from Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), comes after Republicans were left reeling from a public backlash after pushing through legislation to kill internet privacy protections passed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year.

... The Blackburn bill, which was introduced last week, seems to be an answer to those critics.It would require both edge services and ISPs to get users’ permission before sharing their sensitive information — things like financial data, browsing history and geolocation information — with advertisers.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... e-national
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Top Democrats in the House and Senate urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in a letter Thursday to not eliminate national monuments, warning that many national monuments across the country currently "face an unprecedented threat."

The letter is a response to President Trump’s executive order last April, in which he called national monument designations “another egregious abuse of federal power.” More than two dozen designated monuments are currently under public review.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/25/tr ... -proposal/
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President Donald Trump’s controversial senior advisor and speechwriter, Stephen Miller, has led White House efforts to undercut an initiative by Italy to place the migration crisis at the center of this week’s Group of Seven major summit meeting starting Friday in Sicily.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ns/528126/
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Jeff Sessions's Agenda for the Civil-Rights Division

The Trump administration's budget envisions staff reductions and a diminished focus on traditional civil-rights enforcement.

A more detailed look at the court case that blocked the travel ban, and what could come next:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... an/528222/
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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld a lower court’s injunction that blocks the Trump administration from enforcing a key provision of the controversial travel ban on Thursday, handing the president a major legal defeat on his signature national-security policy.

...The Justice Department said it would appeal Thursday’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, a move it declined to make when federal courts blocked the previous order in February.

...Thursday’s 10-3 ruling deals a crucial blow to the Trump administration’s hopes of enforcing the executive order in full. Because the case was heard by a full sitting of the Fourth Circuit’s bench—10 out of the 13 participating judges sided with the majority—only the Supreme Court can review and possibly overturn the decision. And because the lower court’s preliminary injunction applied nationwide, it would block the travel ban’s enforcement even if other federal appeals courts ruled in its favor.




Apparently, Trump's doppelganger was the one who seemed to prefer Le Pen in the French elections:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ere-my-guy
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President Trump told newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday that he supported him during the French election, according to Reuters. “You were my guy,” Trump told his French counterpart during their first meeting at a NATO summit in Brussels.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... an/525783/
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Trump's Tepid Congratulations for Emmanuel Macron
Though effusive in praising Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the U.S. president was nonchalant about a French president-elect whose opponent he seemed to favor.
According to press reports, Trump and Macron had quite a white knuckle handshake battle when they met in person.


Fact checker for Trump's lies and misstatements.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics ... mp-claims/
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100 days of Trump claims

Throughout President Trump’s first 100 days, the Fact Checker team tracked false and misleading claims made by the president since Jan. 20.

Trump doesn't seem to have made any friends for the U.S. with his lectures and advice for the EU at NATO:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... litics_pop
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Trump upbraided America’s longtime allies for “not paying what they should be paying.” He used a ceremony dedicating the memorial to NATO’s resolve in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States as a platform to exhort leaders to “focus on terrorism and immigration” to ensure their security.

And he held back from the one pledge NATO leaders most wanted to hear: an unconditional embrace of the organization’s solemn treaty commitment that an attack on a single alliance nation is an attack on all of them.

Instead, European leaders gazed unsmilingly at Trump while he said that “23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying,” and that they owe “massive amounts” from past years — a misstatement of NATO’s spending targets, which guide individual nations’ own domestic spending decisions.

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How some Gianforte supporters think his assault on a reporter is OK, and how some (but not all) right-leaning outlets ignored the story or tried to spin it so the reporter was at fault. Including one person who tried to make the Fox reporter who witnessed it change her story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pow ... fb981dba2/
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On the eve of the special election, the wealthy technology entrepreneur flipped out when the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs asked him about the CBO’s score of the health care bill. He now faces misdemeanor assault charges for reportedly throwing Jacobs to the ground and breaking his glasses.

“I made a mistake,” the congressman-elect said at his party in Bozeman. “Not in our minds!” yelled a supporter. David Weigel, who was there, reports that some in the crowd laughed.
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The Montana donnybrook quickly became a Rorschach Test that highlighted the divide within the conservative media between the serious and unserious outlets. It also showcased how many prominent figures on the right reflexively rally behind Republican politicians, whether the president or a House candidate, even when they are very clearly in the wrong.
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And while the news division at Fox covered the story seriously and showed integrity, at least one commentator said on the air that the reporter had it coming.

This article also describes the bigger picture - a conservative news organization called Sinclair Broadcasting. A Sinclair-owned TV station in Montana completely refused to cover the story. This organization is looking to acquire other outlets.
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The Montana NBC Affiliate reportedly refused to cover the Gianforte story at all on Wednesday night, a shocking blackout. … Weindel said that they weren’t covering the story, though it was running in outlets across the country at the time, explaining, ‘The person that tweeted [Jacobs] and was allegedly body slammed is a reporter for a politically biased publication.’The station was acquired, last month, by the conservative media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcasting.”

-- Here’s why that’s a big deal: Sinclair Broadcasting just struck a deal with Tribune Media to buy dozens of local TV stations. “Already, Sinclair is the largest owner of local TV stations in the nation. If the $3.9 billion deal gets regulatory approval, Sinclair would have 7 of every 10 Americans in its potential audience,
Sinclair seems to be a strong Trump supporter:
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And Sinclair regularly sends ‘must-run’ segments to its stations across the country. One example: an opinion piece by a Sinclair executive that echoed President Trump’s slam at the national news media and what he calls the ‘fake news’ they produce…
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Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, even bragged, according to Politico, that the campaign cut a deal with the media conglomerate for uninterrupted coverage of some Trump appearances.

Some on the right are not happy about the recent turn of events:
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-- Many right-wing intellectuals blame Trump for corrupting the conservative movement so much that Gianforte can get away with hitting a reporter:
Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) :
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There is a total weirdness out there. People feel like, if the president of the United States can say anything to anybody at any time, then I guess I can too. And that is a very dangerous phenomenon.”
I'm seeing that, too. Among other things, I've noticed a few pickup trucks and SUVs driving around with gigantic confederate flags, which I had never seen before in this area.

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I've been saying this since a year ago - read up on the German history in 1930s.

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Frelga wrote:
I've been saying this since a year ago - read up on the German history in 1930s.
I've been saying that for MANY years, but then I'm not so partisan as to think only one party could reflect that situation.

Oh, and I've changed my thread title back. I wanted it to be as neutral as possible, neither celebratory nor mournful. Dancing bananas as a result of an election are childish and quite beneath me.

The only thing I did that may be considered objectionable is I sent a message so sauronsfinger congratulating him that his candidate won.

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No. I can't allow that to stand. You're forbidden from interacting with sf. That includes passive-aggressive remarks about him in the third person.

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Also, please do not change thread titles without discussion. The rangers discussed and effected that change. To change it back without clearing with the rangers is flouting our authority and will not be tolerated either. We're ok to let it stand this time, but any further actions of this kind will be dealt with.

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Getting back to the main topic of this thread, you'll notice that it's been five days since Inky posted a list of disastrous or just plain cringeworthy things Trump has done that day. That obviously means that either he's finally grown up, or the White House staff has staged an intervention and has gotten him locked up somewhere safe where he can't harm the country any more than he has already done.





Just kidding. He's been on tour and embarrassing the country abroad. He's on camera rudely shoving another world leader out of the way for a photo op, standing by himself and scowling while everyone else in the room is chatting and actually making an effort to get to know each other, and trying his stupid alpha-male handshake game (and losing against Macron).

Angela Merkel has even said that the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner for Europe. This is stunning.

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Well, there's the whole "covfefe" tweet now, too. SMH.

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Covfefe tweet? What's that?

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