Cabbage News Network Week #103

Monday 1/14

• Courts again block administration attempt to limit birth control (source).
  
• DJT denies working for Russia, he really means it, also he confiscated his translators notes from his last meeting with Putin, totally normal (source).
  
• DJT promises farmers that he'll stop screwing them over any day now (source).
  
• Mulvaney dodging decade old real estate debt (source).

Tuesday 1/15

• Administration is forcing many Federal workers back to work, but without pay (source).
  
• Federal court denies injunction that would have required paying Federal employees that are currently being forced to work without pay (source).
  
• Court rules against having a citizenship question in the 2020 Census, decision appealed to the Supreme Court (source).

Wednesday 1/16

• ISIS attack in Syria, proving they're not quite dead yet, contrary to DJT and Pence declarations (source).
  
• Dems ok with William Barr as Attorney General despite his suggestions that he won't release Mueller's report (source).
  
• Senate ok with lifting sanctions on Russians (source).
  
• White House economists increase estimates of how much the shutdown is damaging the U.S. economy (source).

Thursday 1/17

• Children being taken from the parents at the border more extensive than previously reported, also still going on (source.)
  
• Guiliani backtracks on that whole "no collusion" business (source).
  
• Cohen rigged online polls on behalf of DJT during the campaign (source).
  
• Backpay for Federal employees once the shutdown ends approved (source).
  
• ACLU sues government over social media surveillance (source).

Friday 1/18

• Cohen says DJT instructed him to lie to Congress (source).
  
• McConnell blocks another bill that would end shutdown (source).

Maps of the week

Incoming winter storm

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • Bill to pay Federal workers after the shutdown ends https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s24
    
  • 9 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 2 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • More appropriation bills that the senate won't touch https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hjres28, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr266, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr268
    
  • Resolution disapproving of DJT lifting Russian sanctions https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hjres30
    
  • 12 minor bills
    
  • 29 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House - Senate is missing in action