Cabbage News Network Week #117

[kmusser]

Monday 4/22

• DJT counter-sues to try and block House subpoena for his companies financial info (source).
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission declines to implement its own safety recommendations to prepare nuclear reactors for climate change related risks (source).
  
• GOP controlled states continue to work on limiting voter turnout (source).

Tuesday 4/23

• U.S. forces U.N. to water down resolution against sexual violence with veto threat (source).
  
• HHS proposes weakening the anti-discrimination provisions of Obamacare (source).
  
• Administration appeals the court ruling against the draft being male-only (source)

Wednesday 4/24

• NSA recommends ending its phone surveillance program (source).

Thursday 4/25

• GOP not planning any action on Mueller report findings (source).
  
• Administration shelving plans to expand offshore drilling (source).
  
• Judge gives administration new deadline for re-uniting children that it separated from their families at the border (source).
  
• Judge blocks administrations abortion gag rule (source).
  
• Judge rules that Michigan's congressional districts are unconstitutional due to gerrymandering (source).

Friday 4/26

• White House officials refuse congressional subpoenas, Congress threatens officials with jail time (source).
  
• FBI briefing Florida governor and senator on election hacking details (source).
  
• DJT re-election campaign has spent $8 million on legal fees so far (source).
  
• Most 2020 candidates pledged not to use hacked materials in campaigns, the exceptions being Trump, Gabbard, and Yang (source).

Legislative update - no action this week