Monday 7/1
Tuesday 7/2
Wednesday 7/3
Thursday 7/4
Friday 7/5
Legislative update
Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate - no new activity
Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House - no new activity
- Judge orders Border Patrol to allow doctors into detention facilities (source).
- Congress members tour migrant detention facilities (source).
- Implementation of HHS "conscience protection" rule delayed by lawsuit (source).
- DJT to give Kim Jong Un whatever he wants (source).
- DJT doesn't know what "busing" is (source).
- DJT reaches trade deal with China that doesn't really do anything other than lift the restrictions on Huawei (source).
- Saudi Arabia is buying up U.S. debt (source).
Tuesday 7/2
- Judge rules that indefinite detention of asylum seekers is illegal (source).
- More reports on detention facility conditions.
- Administration increasing enforcement of fines against illegal immigrants (source).
- House sues IRS over DJT's tax returns (source).
- U.S. economic expansion has been great for the ultra-rich, not so much for everybody else (source).
- Border Patrol to investigate anti-migrant Facebook group for Border Patrol employees (source).
- DJT and DC fighting over whether he can have tanks at his 4th of July rally (source, more on DJT's hijacking of DC's 4th of July).
Wednesday 7/3
- DJT's military display for the 4th a go (source).
- Administration drops attempts to add citizenship question to Census, and then DJT denies dropping it (source).
- DJT accuses China and EU of currency manipulation (source).
Thursday 7/4
- DJT's 4th of July rally/military display includes flub about the revolutionary war army taking over airports (source).
Friday 7/5
Legislative update
- Legislation signed into law
- Border appropriations bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr3401
- 1 minor bill
- Border appropriations bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr3401
- 4 minor bills
- 169 total pending bills
- 61 total pending bills