Monday 5/27
Tuesday 5/28
Wednesday 5/29
Thursday 5/30
Friday 5/31
Legislative update - no action this week
- DJT ok with North Korea missile tests and praises Kim Jong Un (source).
- Judge blocks use of DoD funds for border wall (source).
Tuesday 5/28
- DJT sued over executive order allowing discrimination in health care (source).
- You will all be shocked to learn that the GOP tax cut hasn't helped the economy (source).
Wednesday 5/29
- Mueller: "If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so" source).
- Kellyanne Conway blows off Hatch act violations (source).
Thursday 5/30
- DJT admits that Russia helped him in the election, and then denies it 20 minutes later (source).
- White House official asked navy to keep the USS McCain out of site during DJT's Japan visit out of fear of offending DJT (source).
- Court documents confirm GOP goal behind citizenship census question is to make Latinos underrepresented in Congress (source).
- China halts U.S. soybean purchases (source).
- Dept. of Energy refers to fossil fuels as "freedom gas" and "molecules of U.S. freedom" (source).
Friday 5/31
- DJT threatens Mexico with tariffs (source).
- Chinese anti-U.S. tariffs go into effect (source).
- Administration lifts limits on E15 gasoline (source).
Legislative update - no action this week