Cabbage News Network Week #115 & #116

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Monday 4/8

• After supporting DJT's children in cages policy, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is fired for not being evil enough (source).
  
• DJT also fires his Secret Service Director (source).
  
• Administration still stonewalling on re-uniting children that it took from their parents (source).
  
• DJT labels Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization (source).
  
• U.S. pulls military forces out of Libya (source).

Tuesday 4/9

• Judge rules against DJT's "wait in Mexico" policy, decision likely to be appealed (source).
  
• Canada to make it easier to reject refugees coming across the U.S.-Canada border into Canada (source).
  
• DJT to make it harder for refugees to claim asylum (source).
  
• Dept. of Justice still pursuing court case against Obamacare (source).
  
• DJT adds tariffs to various EU products (source).

Wednesday 4/10

• Transgender military ban goes into effect Friday. Pentagon to house up to 5,000 migrant children. National Guard using up its training budget for border deployment (source).

Thursday 4/11

• Oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt confirmed as Secretary of Interior (source).
  
• U.S. charges Julian Assange with computer hacking, Assange arrested and extradited from Ecuador (source).

Friday 4/12

• FCC to hold 5G spectrum auction (source).

Monday 4/15

• Ethics investigation of David Bernhardt launched (source and yes this was just 4 days after he was confirmed).
  
• NASA awards SpaceX contract to fly to the asteroid belt (source)
  
• U.S. position on U.N. racism committee purposely being left vacant (source).
  
• DJT to give Tiger Woods Presidential Medal of Freedom (source).

Tuesday 4/16

• Last week DJT threatened to send immigrants to sanctuary cities, sanctuary city mayors say they'd be happy to take them (source).
  
• NYT special report on Mulvaney's destruction of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
  
• House subpoenas Deutsche Bank for DJT related documents (source).

Wednesday 4/17

• HUD proposes banning housing assistance for immigrants (source)
  
• Barr orders immigration judges to stop releasing asylum seekers on bail (source).
  
• New York limits powers of ICE agents (source).
  
• USAID to drop support for Palestinian projects (source).

Thursday 4/18

• Mueller report released, there is a lot there and I'm not going to try and summarize, see the links for that, but suffice it to say that Barr's summary was complete BS (Reuters summary, BBC summary, the 10 potential obstruction of justice cases outlined, WP long summary including background, WP short takeaways, full report).
  
• New sanctions issued against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (source).

Friday 4/19

• House subpoenas Mueller report without the redactions (source). My personal take is that most of the redactions appear to be related to ongoing investigations that Mueller farmed out to other jurisdictions.

Map of the week

High resolution 1802 map of the U.S.

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • 5 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation vetoed
  
  • Bill withdrawing U.S. military from Yemen https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/sjres7
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 1 minor bill
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  Bill restoring Net Neutrality https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1644
  
  • Violence Against Women Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1585
    
  • 4 minor bills
    
  • 103 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  3 minor bills
  
  • 9 total pending bills