Day: April 13, 2018

White House Wants to Renege on Spending Plan

Buck Banks

$60 billion

Politico: “The White House is ignoring warnings from worried Hill Republicans and moving ahead with plans to cut billions of dollars from the massive spending bill that Congress passed in late March, after President Donald Trump has spent weeks grousing about the legislation. … These officials anticipate the White House could propose slashing anywhere from $30 billion to $60 billion dollars from the $1.3 trillion dollar spending bill passed for this year — even as Republican lawmakers are openly asking the president not to re-open the negotiation.”

So Far, Menendez Beating Trial Baggage

Buck Banks

53% to 32%

A new Monmouth poll in New Jersey finds Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) with a sizable advantage over Bob Hugin (R) in the 2018 race for U.S. Senate, 53% to 32%. “Menendez starts out the campaign with weak approval ratings in part due to fallout from his recent corruption trial. But these negatives are more than offset by the fact he has a ‘D’ next to his name. Hugin, on the other hand, is known to few New Jersey voters at this stage of the race.”

Judicial Nominee Won’t Comment on Landmark Civil Rights Ruling

Buck Banks

“I don’t mean to be coy but I think I can get into a difficult, difficult area when I start commenting on Supreme Court decisions — which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with.”

— Wendy Vitter, one of President Trump’s judicial nominees, refusing to say whether the landmark civil rights case Brown v. the Board of Education was correctly decided, CNN reports. The seminal opinion held that state laws requiring separate but equal schools violated the Constitution.