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THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION in Milwaukee starts in a year. (h / t Steven Shepard)
A BREAK-GLASS SCENARIO TO THINK … There's only 8 DAYS left this month when the House and the Senate are both in session. treasury secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN and president NANCY PELOSI said that the debt ceiling should be lifted this month before everyone leaves the city. …
… NOW, both parties want to reach a budget agreement that lifts spending caps for the next fiscal year. They would then associate an increase of the debt with this limit. BUT … If they can not get an expenditure agreement, the two chambers would like to adopt before August another bill: the first responder bill of September 11th. Associate with it an increase in the debt limit and it would be very difficult to vote against. (h / t PK)
– PELOSI and Mnuchin spoke yesterday for 20 minutes in a conversation that started at 13:52. An assistant from Pelosi said that they are likely to talk this weekend.
A DAY FOR BOOKS OF HISTORY … JOSH DAWSEY DE WAPO in McAllen, Texas, and COLBY ITKOWITZ in Washington: "It's difficult". At the Texas Detention Center, Pence sees hundreds of migrants crammed without beds ": "When Vice President Pence visited a migrant detention center on Friday, he saw nearly 400 men crammed behind caged barriers, with no room to lie on the floor. There were no mattresses or pillows for those who found space to rest. A nauseous odor due to a body odor floated in the air.
"When reporters visited the installation before Pence, The men shouted that they had been held there for 40 days, some longer. They said that they were hungry and that they wanted to brush their teeth. It was very hot, but there was only water on the outside of the fences and they had to ask the border patrol officers permission to drink.
"Pence seemed to pinch his nose when entering the establishment, stayed a moment and left. A few minutes earlier, in a bird-eye room called "The Bubble," he had seen 382 men crammed into cells, peeking against the windows to see him. Some seemed shirtless. "I was not surprised by what I saw," Pence said later at a press conference. "I knew we would have seen an outdated system." He added, "It's hard work." WaPo … Read Josh's pool report, which is not easy to read
SARAH FERRIS and HEATHER CAYGLE: "The Dems of the House Choose the Party Unity Instead of the Ice Fight": "Democratic House leaders are at risk of stalling what might be their best chance to force President Donald Trump to settle squalid conditions at the border, for fear of sparking new quarrels within the caucus.
"Democrats push to relieve congested detention centers for migrants and demand the responsibility of the White House. But a bill to fund the US Department of Homeland Security – which could be used to urge US authorities to act at the border – is hotly contested and the party wonders whether it is worth vote.
"Democrats fear a fight for funding DHS and immigration This will only exacerbate the tensions that rocked the caucus during the debate last month on humanitarian aid at the border. And that could put some Liberals in an almost impossible corner, effectively forcing them to vote to approve funds to agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which they want to abolish. " POLITICO
– HMM – "This Framed Picture of Tomi Lahren Hangs on US Border Patrol Headquarters," by Zoë Schlanger and Justin Rohrlich Quartz
BOB COSTA (@costareports): "President Trump, a few days after a federal court of appeal rallied to him in a fee-related case, retweeted an advertisement for his golf course in Scotland. It invites viewers to "visit TrumpGolf.com today to book your ultimate links circuit. "
SENTINEL, MILWAUKEE REVIEW: "President Trump in Milwaukee says farmers are" down "as dairy farms continue to close in Wisconsin" By Molly Beck and Mary Spicuzza: "President Donald Trump has collected $ 3 million in cash in Wisconsin on Friday, touring Milwaukee to promote a new trade deal that will help rebuild the manufacturing and manufacturing sectors. agriculture of the country.
"But in doing so, the president downplayed the suffocation felt by dairy farmers in Wisconsin because of Trump's own tariffs.
"They are great American patriots … farmers (says) no, it's not like things are perfect but we're with our president, "Trump told a crowd of people at Derco Aerospace on the northwest side of Milwaukee. "Some farmers are doing well … We are above the bump. We are really good.
Trump said the new trade deal would help Dairy farmers in Wisconsin, providing access to the Canadian market, paint an optimistic picture of the future of the Wisconsin industry – which loses nearly two dairy farms a day. Nearly 700 Wisconsin farms were shut down last year by homeowners who were facing brutal workloads and hard times, stalling it as a result of a five-year economic downturn. In 2018, for the third year in a row, Wisconsin dominated the country in agricultural bankruptcies. " MJS
Good Saturday morning. NATIONALS OF WASHINGTON beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-0 last night in Philadelphia.
WHAT IS A WORLD! … representative ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ'S (D-N.Y.) Saikat Chakrabarti, Chief of Staff, is not like Hill's ordinary employee. He frequently tweets, discussing his points of view on all subjects, Democratic leaders in the presidential contest. He recently participated in a large-scale profile of the Washington Post Magazine (read this here). Democrats in the House are fed up.
LAST NIGHT, The House Democratic Caucus count shot Chakrabarti, using Ocasio Cortez's words about NANCY PELOSI as a heading. Chakrabarti tweeted a few weeks ago as the representative. SHARICE DAVIDS (D-Kan.) Enabled "a racist system" in DC. This is what the House of Commons has to say about this: "Who is this guy and why does he explicitly choose a Native American woman? She calls Davids, not a Sharice. She is a phenomenal new member who has rocked a red seat. Keep his name out of your mouth. " Check out the tweet here
THE WHITE HOUSE challenged what we wrote yesterday about health care: the president was going to make health care a priority of Congress, and we think he was relatively silent on the subject.
THE WHITE HOUSE Judd Deere sent us an email with a litany of what the White House considered achievements. We called on our senior expert – POLITICO's editor-in-chief for health care, Joanne Kenen – to review their demands.
His sending … IN WASHINGTON and in the political world, "health care" is a shortcut to the problem of costs and coverage – accompanied by concomitant struggles over the role of government in achieving these goals. Trump has promised a "terrific" health care plan, which has not materialized (much to the relief of Capitol Hill Republicans who are still healing the abrogation and replacement of combat wounds). The jury has not yet determined whether Congress and the White House would be able to make drugs, especially expensive high-cost drugs, more affordable. The White House said that prescription drug prices fell for the first time in 46 years, but that, according to generally accepted measures, drug prices were rising, but more slowly. A fact check on drug claims
BUT ON "HEALTH" More generally, Trump enjoys bipartite support for several major initiatives. The country is more focused on opioids and the government spends more money on treatment, although most people think that there is still much to be done. Trump surprised a lot of people by launching an ambitious call to the State of the Union to eliminate new HIV infections in the United States within a decade. Just this week, HHS announced a broad plan to tackle kidney disease and dialysis, which is far more prevalent (and expensive and debilitating) than many people imagine. (Democrats would also respond that these goals would be more easily achieved if Trump strengthened Obamacare instead of trying to bring him to court and pushed reluctant states to expand Medicaid.)
THE TRUMP DESERVES SOME CREDIT for bipartisan efforts. His administration discussed with the speaker the price reduction of drugs – but it is not clear that they can reach an agreement. A bill to end surprise medical billing is being implemented on the Hill, but its adoption is not certain. On unexpected bills, the fight is less democratic than republican than among the different sectors of health to know who should pay the price.
REPLACEMENT OF ACOSTA – "Trump's Acting Secretary of Labor Fears Unions" Ian Kullgren: "Patrick Pizzella, invited on Friday by President Donald Trump to assume the role of Acting Secretary of Labor, is a polarizing figure cherished by conservatives for his ideas favorable to the business world and hated by unions and Democrats for his past opposition to workers' protections. … Pizzella's rise to the top of the labor protection organization is a fear of the unions. He worked alongside the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff to protect the Northern Mariana Islands from federal labor law in the 1990s and has generally advocated for a relaxation of workplace regulation. . " POLITICO
2020 …
THE MAYOR OF BLASIO ENGAGES HIS SON … "Can Dante de Blasio save his father's presidential campaign? Jeffery C. Mays, NYT: "Dante … joins De Blasio's presidential campaign as a paid policy analyst. … Dante, a Yale political science graduate in May, is due to debut in the Iowa campaign on Saturday. He will appear with his father at public events such as barbecues and parades, interacting with voters and possibly introducing his father on television. certain functions. In addition to helping draft a campaign platform, Dante, the championship debater, will also help his father prepare for the debates. " NYT
– JONATHAN MARTIN OF THE NYT and SYDNEY EMBER: "Why did Sanders want to meet a secret rabbi": "When Senator Bernie Sanders announced his presidential campaign in Pittsburgh earlier this year, he quietly added a poignant step to his program: a visit to the Tree of Life synagogue, where eleven people were killed at a antisemitic shootout last fall.
"But his appearance also came with explicit instructions to his campaigners, according to two Democrats familiar with the conversation: They were not to talk to the media about his conversation with the rabbi. Some employees disagreed, saying that there was an elegant way to disclose the visit. But Sanders, the only Jewish candidate among the main Democratic candidates, did not want the visit to be seen as an advertising attack. " NYT
– "AP Exclusive: new electoral systems use vulnerable software", By Tami Abdollah: "An analysis by the Associated Press revealed that, as in many counties in Pennsylvania, the vast majority of the country's 10,000 electoral jurisdictions use Windows 7 or an older operating system for create ballots, program voting machines, count votes and count results. This is important because Windows 7 reaches the end of its life on January 14, which means that Microsoft stops providing technical support and no longer produces "fixes" to fix the software vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. In a statement to the AP, Microsoft announced Friday that it would offer ongoing updates to the security of Windows 7 for a fee until 2023. " AP
SATURDAY OF THE PRESIDENT … THE PRESIDENT TRUMP There are no public events planned.
GOOD READING – "OxyContin made the sacklers rich. Now they are tearing them apart: A series of lawsuits, accusing Purdue Pharma of helping to fuel the drug crisis, has exacerbated long-standing divisions, Jared S. Hopkins of WSJ: "Jacqueline Sackler was tired of it. John Oliver of HBO has just used his family's pillory television show, the clan owned by Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Sunday night, for nearly 15 minutes, he joined a long line of people accusing the Sacklers of being partly responsible for the opioid crisis in the country. At the end of the show, Ms. Sackler, married to one of the company's co-founder's sons, sent her an email, as well as in-laws, lawyers, and counselors.
"This situation destroys our work, our friendships, our reputation and our ability to function in society, "she wrote. "And worse, it condemns my children. How is my son supposed to enroll in high school in September? '… At a meeting a few years ago, according to someone present, Mortimer [Sackler] tried to hit [brother] Raymond, but, missing him, hit a company lawyer in between. " WSJ
NYT: "Jeffrey Epstein taught at Dalton. His behavior was noticed, " by Mike Baker and Amy Julia Harris
– "The pressure on a prosecutor: How did the wealth and power of Epstein lead Acosta to a lenient agreement," Marc Fisher, Devlin Barrett and Kimberly Kindy, of WaPo: "In 2007, Alexander Acosta, the federal attorney for South Florida, just 30 years old, was responsible for taking Epstein out of his wealth bubble. the position, eager to make an impression and, according to friends, find his way back to a senior administration position in Washington.
Conchita Sarnoff, author of "TrafficKing" a book on the Epstein case, said Acosta, a few years after the dream team of Epstein's prominent defense lawyers persuaded him to sign a non-prosecution agreement ending the continuation of the prosecution at federal level that he felt unable to compete with these eight powerful lawyers. He felt his career was at stake. " WaPo
FOR YOUR RADAR – "Exclusive: The Pentagon uses to track the production of rare earths in a trade dispute with China" Reuters' Ernest Scheyder says: "The Pentagon is quickly assessing the US's rare earth capacity in a security race to secure a stable supply of specialized equipment for the country's trade dispute with China, which controls Industry, according to a government document. seen by Reuters.
"The push comes weeks after China threatened to limit exports to the United States rare earths, a group of 17 minerals used in the construction of fighter jets, tanks and various consumer electronics products. The Pentagon wants the miners to describe their plans for developing rare earth mines and processing facilities in the United States, and is asking manufacturers to detail their mineral requirements, according to the document dated June 27. " Reuters
STATUS OF THE DAY – Robert Muggah in the FT: "More than 2.5 million Latin Americans have been murdered since 2000. Today, the homicide rate in Latin America is three times higher than the global average and is increasing. The region accounts for nearly 40% of murders worldwide, while it is home to only 9% of the world's population. According to Lapop, one in four Latin Americans has been assaulted and stolen in the last year. " FT
CLICKER – "The caricaturists of the nation in the week in politics" edited by Matt Wuerker – 12 guards
GREAT READ OF WEEKEND, Commissioner: Daniel Lippman, Great Barrington Deposit, Mass .:
– "The big race for the rule for streaming television", by Jonah Weiner in the NY Times Magazine: "In their haste to match Netflix, competitors such as HBO, Hulu and Amazon are driving a host of content, ushering in the era of" prestige television "and ushering in an era where nothing happens. " NYT Magazine
– "New workers of the world" by Vauhini Vara in Bloomberg Businessweek: "A One Year Project to Capture the Voice of Workers Facing an Unprecedented Global Change." Bloomberg Businessweek
– "Tropical forest on fire" by Alexander Zaitchik in The Intercept in partnership with the Pulitzer Center: "In the front line of the Bolsonaro war in the Amazon, Brazil's forest communities are fighting the climate catastrophe." L & # 39; interception (h / t Longform.org)
– "On the road with the Amazon nomads", by Josh Dzieza of The Verge: "To store the shelves of Amazon, merchants crisscross the streets of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys." The edge (h / t Longform.org)
– "They were children when they were kidnapped by ISIS and forced to fight. What happens now that they are at home? by Kimberly Dozier in TIME. TIME
– "I did not die. I did not go to heaven » by Ruth Graham in Slate – according to TheBrowser.com: "The boy who came back from heaven was sold to a million copies and launched 'a bust of' paradise tourism 'stories in Christian publications. "Then the boy retracted, claiming his father concocted the story and that he" never even read the full content, "triggering another advertising frenzy. But the father still firmly believes in the book and attributes the change of history to his ex-wife. The boy's brother ranks with the father. The reporter is never allowed to speak with the boy, now a man, alone. " Slate
– "The moon is a dangerous place to live" by Shannon Hall in the NYT: "If we go back to the lunar surface, astronauts will face more than just rocket flights and the void of space." NYT
– "Respond to desires" by Bence Nanay in Aeon Magazine: "This drink, this cigarette, this dance: wanting things is very contagious. Can you be immune to the infection? " Infinite time (h / t TheBrowser.com)
– "Protect the pleasure: in the fight for a safe cannabis for all" by Katie MacBride in Playboy: "Contaminated growing facilities are growing, but an unlikely group is doing everything in their power to stop them." Playboy
– "I'll miss you when I'm gone": the assassination of social media star Qandeel Baloch, " by Sanam Maher in The Guardian – Description from TheBrowser.com: "On" Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan's leading social media celebrity, & # 39; famous for its viral video "How I Looking? And for rejecting conservative standards of sexualized content. Baloch was murdered by his brother for "disgracing his family" (his parents, distraught, seem to disagree, "it was his life"). " The Guardian
SPOTTED: Anthony Weiner at a restaurant Le Pain Quotidien in New York. Peak
SPOTTED at the annual dinner hosted by the National Italian American Foundation each evening in the honor of the Italian-American Congress delegation: Nancy Pelosi, President, Representatives Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), David Cicilline (DR.I. ) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) Eliot Engel (DN.Y.), Virginia Foxx (RN.C.), John Larson (DC), Bill Pascrell (DN.J.), Linda Sánchez (D-Calif. ) And Thomas Suozzi (DN .Y.), Rick Lazio, Connie Morella, Mike Ferguson, Jim Messina, Bill Palatucci, Maria Cino, Siracusa Kraig, Jeff Paravano, Tim McBride, Tom Quadmann, Lauren Amendolara McDermott, Anita McBride, John Calvelli and Frank Giordano.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY: Amanda Hunter, Director of Research and Communication at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, 4-0. An interesting book she reads: "I just started reading «Down Girl: The logic of misogyny» by Kate Manne. She is brilliant and has a very intelligent vision of the power dynamics around gender. " Playbook Plus Questions and Answers
BIRTHDAYS: Joe Lockhart is 6-0. He celebrates with a party at home in Maine (his wife Giovanna) … Tony Kornheiser is 71 years old … The President of Americans for Prosperity Tim Phillips … Anne Schroeder … Antoinette Rangel … Aneesh Chopra … Eric Cromartie. .. Jill Pike, vice president of communications at Vox Media … Bret Swanson … Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) turns 68 … Kirk Wagar, co-chair for Asia at Mercury and former US ambassador United and Chief of Josh Dawsey, 29, of WaPo … Curtis Isakson … Will Dempster … Sarah Persitz is 34 … Celia Fischer … Ilona Cohen, Chief Legal Officer at Aledade and former wife of Obama …
… Devlin Barrett from WaPo Aged 46 … Alex Vogel … Mike Hais … Molly Hogan … Julie Eddy Rokala, Senior Vice President of Cassidy & Associates … Grace Van Cleave (Teresa Vilmain) … Heather Larrison … Gabby Seay … Christina Roof … Rebecca Gaghen … Jon McClellan … Kate Frischmann of Microsoft … Jennifer Goodman … Keith Ashdown … Dennis Craig II … Nick Newburger … Kerry Lynch of Camron PR … Patricia Brooks … Cindy Hoffman .. Todd Zwillich … Cara Ann Mathis … Emma Rodriguez … Jen Howard … Michelle Gaps … Casey Katims … Brent Call … Dan Smith … Elizabeth Bagley … Steve Crawford. .. Hank Kruse.
SHOWS, by @MattMackowiak, Phoenix Depot:
– "Meet the Press" on NBC: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) … Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) … Megan Rapinoe. Panel: Alberta Tim, Carlos Curbelo, Hallie Jackson and Claire McCaskill
– CNN's "State of the Union": Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services … New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. Panel: Representative Nanette Barragan (D-Calif.), Scott Jennings, Andrew Gillum and Amanda Carpenter
– "This week" from ABC: Tom Steyer … Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Panel: Chris Christie, Rahm Emanuel, Rachael Bade and Alexi McCammond.
– "Face the Nation" of CBS: Acting Director of Customs and Border Protection of the United States, Mark Morgan … Whip of the Senate Minority, Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) … Jeh Johnson … NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine … Douglas Brinkley. Panel: Ben Domenech, Paula Reid, Toluse Olorunnipa and Kelsey Snell
– "Fox News Sunday": Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.). Panel: Jason Chaffetz, Jane Harman, Josh Holmes and Juan Williams
– CNN's "Domestic Policy": Jeff Zeleny, Lisa Lerer, Kim Seung Min and Michael Bender (guest guest: Phil Mattingly)
– Fox News Sunday Morning Futures: Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) … Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) … Jimmy Lai … Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas)
– "MediaBuzz" Fox News: Mollie Hemingway … Susan Ferrechio … Jessica Tarlov … Mara Liasson … Carley Shimkus
– CNN's "GPS Fareed Zakaria": Ernest Moniz … David Miliband … Thomas Friedman … Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju
– "Reliable sources" from CNN: Jane Coaston, Samantha Vinograd and Robby Soave … Renee DiResta and Oliver Darcy … Katie Rogers … Julie Anderson, Mark Katches and Alex Harris
– "Al Punto" from Univision: Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) … Ans. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) … Conchita Sarnoff … Carlos Loret De Mola … Emmanuel (guest guest: Felix De Bedout)
– C-SPAN: "Communicators": Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Interviewed by Craig Timberg … "Newsmakers": NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine interviewed by Christian Davenport and Jeff Foust … "Q & A": Corey Pegues ("There was once a cop: the street, the law, two worlds, a man")
– Kasie DC from MSNBC: Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) … Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) … Amy McGrath … Scott Taylor … Matt Gorman … Ashley Parker … Yamiche Alcindor … John Harwood … Ken Dilanian … Leigh Ann Caldwell
– Washington Times' "Mack on Politics" weekly political podcast with Matt Mackowiak (available for download from iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or Stitcher) MackOnPoliticsPodcast.com): Joe Trippi.
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