Cabbage News Network Week #75

[kmusser]

Status of Puerto Rico infrastructure - it's been 275 days and the island is still 5% without power.

Saturday 6/23

• Border Patrol working on reuniting the 2,000+ kids it took with their families (source).
  
• Several cases of administration officials getting publicly shamed (source).
  
• U.S. cheese makers in trouble because of tariffs (source).

Monday 6/25

• DJT wants to do away with that whole judicial process thing, just gets in the way (source).
  
• Border Patrol confirms it is going back to old system, contradicting Sessions (source).
  
• Harley-Davidson moving some of its production overseas because of tariffs. (source).
  
• Senator Flake threatens to block DJT's judicial nominees if the Senate doesn't limit DJT's tariffs (source).
  
• Erik Prince gives Mueller his phone and computer records (source).

Tuesday 6/26

• Federal judge orders halt to family separations and the reuniting of those already separated, expect DJT and Sessions to challenge the ruling (source).
  
• DJT threatens to punish Harley-Davidson (source).
  
• HHS secretary says he can't reunite families without Congress (source, and I'm pretty sure he'd figure it out if he wanted to).

Wednesday 6/27

• Sessions is still defending separating and locking up immigrant children (source).
  
• Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces his retirement, which will mean 20+ year shift to the right for the Supreme Court, giving the potential for overturning many landmark cases (source, list of possible replacements).
  
• Supreme Court rules against unions in mandatory fees case (source).
  
• Supreme Court upholds DJT's travel ban (source).
  
• Supreme Court strikes down California law requiring pregnancy centers to provide abortion information (source).
  
• Fox News exec Bill Shine expected to be new White House communications director (source).

Thursday 6/28

• Protesters opposing immigrant detentions occupy Senate building (source).
  
• ICE lawyer pleads guilty to stealing immigrants identities (source).
  
• ICE agents propose dissolving agency (source).
  
• State Dept. warns that separating children from parents increases the risk of them being trafficked (source).
  
• DJT and Putin planning on meeting next month (source).
  
• Commerce Dept. being swamped by tariff exemption requests (source).
  
• Mueller subpoenas another business associate of Roger Stone (source).
  
• GOP goes after Rosenstein in congressional hearings (source).
  
• China refuses to talk to the U.S. over Taiwan naming dispute (source).
  
• Senate passes Farm Bill without the work requirements the House version has (source).
  
• The above bill would legalize growing hemp (source).
  
• House passes DoD spending bill (source).

Friday 6/29

• DJT wants the U.S. to withdraw from the WTO (source).
  
• U.N. rejects DJT's candidate for running the U.N. migrant agency (source).
  
• Nationwide protests expected tomorrow (source).

Maps of the week

• Map of ICE detention facilities, more details than last weeks - this is mostly adult detainees
  
• Map of centers housing immigrant children
  
• Protests planned for June 30th
  
• Protest at the Jessup, MD facility

Legislative action this week

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • 2 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 6 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • a bunch of bills I don't have time to go through, I think the only major one is the DoD bill mentioned above https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr6157
    
  • 601 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • Farm bill passed with changes, so back to House https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr2
    
  • 116 total pending bills