Cabbage News Network Week #152

[kmusser]

Monday 12/23

• DJT tilts at windmills (source).
  
• DJT boasts of having Putin's support (source).
  
• 538's analysis of DJT's takeover of the GOP and the purge of any dissenting Republicans.
  
• Last weeks spending package contained a $1 billion for Kentucky (source.
  
• That spending package was also stripped of requirement that military aid for Ukraine actually be delivered thanks to White House veto threat (source).
  

Tuesday 12/24

• Administration retires website for tracking pollution (source).
  
• Pentagon considering pulling troops out of west Africa (source).
  
• DJT releases website to promote family arguments over politics for the holidays (source).
  
• DJT blows off North Korean saber rattling (source).
  
• Turkey blows off U.S. sanctions threat (source).

Wednesday 12/25

• Merry Christmas!
  
• Pope denounces U.S. concentration camps (source).

Thursday 12/26

• China resumes buying U.S. soybeans as part of trade deal (source).
  
• Pentagon considering cyber-warfare plans against Russian interference in 2020 election (source).

Friday 12/27

• Philippines considering new visa rules for Americans (source).
  
• Judge strikes down North Carolina's voter ID law (source).
  
• Fed workers get a pay raise (source).

Map of the week

• Australia is on fire, more

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • Budget package https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1790, https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1158, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1865
    
  • Bill supporting Native American languages https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s256
    
  • 8 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 6 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • NAFTA 2.0 https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5430
    
  • 355 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • 107 total pending bills