Cabbage News Network Week #132

[kmusser]

Note, I may be skipping next week due to being in Alaska, we shall see, meanwhile:

Monday 8/5

• DJT condemns white supremacy, will fight it with hopes and prayers (source).
  
• Putin threatens new nuclear arms race (source).
  
• China stops buying U.S. crops and drops the value of their currency in response to tariffs (source).
  
• U.S. and U.K. to do joint military patrols of the Persian Gulf (source).

Tuesday 8/6

Wednesday 8/7

• DJT visiting sites of last weeks shootings, greeted by protests (source).
  
• Assistant Secretary of State resigns in protest over immigration policy (source).
  
• Polls shows most GOP favor a government with no checks on presidential power (source).
  
• Farmers aren't happy about DJT selling them down the river (source).
  
• ICE arrests 680 immigrants in Mississippi (source).

Thursday 8/8

• Pentagon warns of possible ISIS resurgence (source).
  
• Children of those arrested in Mississippi are abandoned, communities rally in support of them (source).
  
• House Judiciary Committee conducting impeachment inquiry (source).
  
• Andrew McCabe sues administration over his firing (source).
  

Friday 8/9

• Other nations have begun issuing travel warnings against travelling to the U.S. (source).
  
• 300 of those immigrants arrested in Mississippi are released after outrage (source).
  
• EPA authorizes use of cyanide against wild animals (source).
  
• DJT nominates Joseph Maguire for Intelligence Chief (source).

Map of the week

A new river map - the York (click to enlarge).

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • 1 minor bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr3253
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature - nothing new
  
  • 17 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate - in recess
  
  • 214 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House - in recess
  
  • 72 total pending bills