Cabbage News Network Week #122

[kmusser]

Monday 5/27

• 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