Cabbage News Network Week #86

Monday 9/10

Sessions hiring more immigration judges to speed up deportations (source).

• State Dept. to close Palestinian's DC office (source).
  
• Administration has expanded the use of drone strikes in Africa (source).
  
• Dept. of Interior reverses Obama administration's establishing a reservation for a Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts, related litigation still pending (source).
  

Tuesday 9/11

• U.S. threatens the International Criminal Court should it dare to charge any Americans with war crimes (source).
  
• Russia suspected in weird illnesses suffered by U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China (source).
  
• As east coast is threatened by hurricane Florence, DJT wants to remind everyone of his administration's great response to hurricane Maria in which 3,000 people died (source).
  
• DJT yet again threatens government shutdown if Congress keeps refusing to fund his wall (source).
  
• DJT executive order to allow sanctions against foreign individuals that interfere in U.S. elections (source).
  
• EPA proposes easing methane emission rule (source).
  
• Justice Dept. won't prosecute people lying in background checks in order to purchase firearms (source).
  
• Administration tripling size of detention camp for immigrant children on Texas border (source).
  
• U.S. considering sanctions on China over treatment of Muslims (source).
  
• House GOP wants more tax cuts, not that they're likely to pass the Senate (source).

Wednesday 9/12

• FEMA money diverted to ICE to pay for immigrant crackdown (source.
  
• Puerto Rico governor tells DJT to f&*% off (source).
  
• More detailed look at what's in the opioid bill.
  
• U.S. to pay Mexico to deport Central Americans (source).
  
• Detailed look at how administration has killed U.S. refugee programs.
  
• U.S. continues to support Saudi side in Yemen's civil war (source).
  
• Senate passes spending bill (source).

Thursday 9/13

• Administration to revisit asylum claims of families that were separated (source).
  
• DJT claims the official hurricane Maria death toll is a lie, which it is not (source).
  
• DJT passes 5,000 lies told since taking office (source).
  
• Dem attempts to subpoena Kavanaugh documents blocked by GOP (source).
  
• Feinstein refers letter about Kavanaugh sexual misconduct allegations to Federal investigators (source).
  
• Kavanaugh vote has been pushed back to next week (source).
  
• Congress reaches deal to avoid government shutdown (source).
  
• House GOP block spending bill amendment requiring drug companies to disclose prices (source).
  
• ICE wants $1 billion more for more deportations (source).

Friday 9/14

Manafort reaches plea deal with Mueller (source).

In other news

• China is doing truly horrible things in Xinjiang (summary, trivial things that'll get you sent to a detention camp).
  
• The EU votes to wreck the Internet - the TL,DR is that it will become difficult to self-publish any Internet content in the EU (source, summary).
  
• Interesting retrospective on Obama administration's response to the financial crises, now that it's been long enough to see the result.

Map of the week

Maryland hurricane evacuation zones

No legislative action this week

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • 1 minor bill
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • Bill reducing some tariffs https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4318
    
  • 6 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • 24 minor bills
    
  • 693 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • 3 minor bills
    
  • 137 total pending bills
  
  
• Upcoming legislation
  
  • Opioid Crises Response Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s2680 (summary)
    
  • DoD appropriations act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr6157
    
  • DoE appropriations act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr5895