Cabbage News Network Week #161

[kmusser]

Monday 2/24

• DJT working on purging administration officials deemed insufficiently loyal (source).
  
• Public charge/wealth test rule for green card applicants goes into effect (source).
  
• DJT is in India (source).
  
• Greyhound bans border patrol agents from doing immigration checks on its buses and terminals (source).
  

Tuesday 2/25

• CDC warns that coronavirus is expected to spread to the U.S. (source, source).
  
• DoD is closing European bases due to coronavirus threat (source).
  
• White House claims that coronavirus has been contained (source).
  
• DHS doesn't have a clue about coronavirus (source).
  
• Barr is considering reforms for the FISA court (source).
  
• DJT calls on liberal supreme court justices to recuse themselves (source).
  
• Supreme Court protects border patrol agents use of lethal force (source).

Wednesday 2/26

• DJT puts Pence in charge of coronavirus response, well I'm reassured. CDC also confirms first case in U.S. not tied to China (source).
  
• CDC was slow in testing that California case (source).
  
• Pence's record of fighting disease mostly involves a lot of prayers (source).
  
• It's true that DJT fired CDC's pandemic response team two years ago and it has not been replaced (source).
  
• A related fact-check, while DJT has proposed cutting CDC's funding, Congress has refused him every year, CDC funding has in fact increased during this administration (source).
  
• Justice Dept. opens office dedicated to stripping people of U.S. citizenship (source).
  
• Administration resumes coal leases on Federal lands (source).
  

Thursday 2/27

• GOP seeking to disrupt Dem primaries (source).
  
• HHS secretary says coronavirus vaccine won't necessarily be affordable (source).
  
• Pence passes the buck on to Debbie Birx, who has public health expertise and appears to be qualified for the job, I actually am shocked (source).

Friday 2/28

• HHS workers greeted evacuees from China without any protective gear (source).
  
• U.S. reaches peace agreement with Taliban (source).

In news elsewhere

• Most actually informative article I've seen yet on the coronavirus.

Map of the week

• Coronavirus spread, another take.
  
• A story map on Native American perspectives on the Grand Canyon.

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 8 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • Bill making lynching a Federal crime https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr35
    
  • 11 minor bills
    
  • 410 total pending bills sitting on McConnell's desk
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • 1 minor bill
    
  • 118 total pending bills sitting on Pelosi's desk

Comments

[selki]

Good for Greyhound.
Mixed feelings on Barr reforming FISA (reforming how? hmmm).