Cabbage News Network Week #190

[kmusser]

Friday 9/18

• Supreme Court Justice and American hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies. Immediate debate about her replacement (source).

Monday 9/21

• CDC publishes and then immediate withdraws guidelines regarding the aerosol transmission of Covid-19 (source).
  
• DoJ designates NYC, Seattle, and Portland as "anarchist jurisdictions," apparently in an effort to create justification for withholding Federal funds from them (source).
  
• Administration adds restrictions to H-1B visa program (source).
  
• DeVos being investigated for Hatch act violations (source).

Tuesday 9/22

• DJT extends racism training ban to Federal contractors (source).
  
• Pentagon redirects Covid funds to defense contractors (source).
  
• EPA dismisses studies linking pesticide to brain damage (source).

Wednesday 9/23

• DJT says he may not accept the results of the election, won't commit to peaceful transfer of power (source).
  
• Dems ask DHS to declassify and release report on foreign threats to election security (source).
  
• Treasury issues sanctions against Russians involved with disinformation campaign (source).
  
• DJT nominates Allen Souza, former aide to Devin Nunes, to be new intelligence community inspector general (source).
  
• Amnesty Intl. and Hispanic groups protest Chad Wolf's DHS nomination (source, source).
  
• Judge denies Eric Trump's request to delay his subpoena response until after election (source).

Thursday 9/24

• DJT's campaign rhetoric getting even uglier than usual (source).
  
• Feds investigating discarded votes in Pennsylvania (source).
  
• Senate passes resolution supporting a peaceful transition of power (source).
  
• DJT pushing to normalize relations with Sudan (source).
  
• Local officials preparing for post-election chaos the best they can (source).
  
• DJT signs executive order leaving Obamacare in place (source) (though note there is still a court case pending against it).

Friday 9/25

• FBI director testifies that there has been no evidence of voter fraud, White House dismisses testimony (source).
  

In Other News

• Another article looking at post-election possibilities - like the previous one it isn't pretty.

Map of the week

• Covid-19 changes over the last 2 weeks - cases are on the rise again, particularly bad in the Midwest.
  

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 17 minor bills
    
  • 22 total pending bills sitting on DJT's desk
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • 58 minor bills - I didn't have time to go through them all, so there might be major legislation hidden in there.
    
  • 523 total pending bills sitting on McConnell's desk
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • 2 minor bills
    
  • 156 total pending bills sitting on Pelosi's desk

Comments

[selki]

Good for Office of the Special Counsel, but it seems like there are a lot more than DeVos that they could go after for Hatch violations.