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LEADING THE DAY 
2020 CAMPAIGN & POLITICS: In a year when the popular move has been 
to run for president, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) decided to go the other 
way and closed up shop on his 2020 bid, temporarily contracting the 
Democratic presidential field. 
Swalwell announced that he was dropping out during a press conference in 
Dublin, Calif., on Monday afternoon following reports that he had discussed 
shutting the doors on his 2020 bid after he canceled two days of 
campaigning in New Hampshire during the July Fourth holiday. 
'We have to be honest about our own candidacy's viability, "Swalwell told 
reporters, adding that he will run for reelection to the House instead. He did 
not endorse any of his former 2020 competitors (The Hill). 
While one California Democrat ended his bid, another is expected to launch 
one of his own as Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor who has loudly called 
for President Trump's impeachment, reportedly plans to enter the race on 
Tuesday. 
Steyer's likely move comes despite his January announcement that he 
would not run in 2020, saying at the time that he planned to focus all of his 
time and energy in the push to impeach the president. However, according 
to reports, Steyer has had second thoughts in recent months and seemed 
uneasy about his January decision. 
The potential announcement would bring the Democratic field back to 25 
candidates. 
The New York Times: Farewell, Swalwell: As one 2020 Democrat drops out, 
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> Warren rises: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Monday that 
she posted a $19.1 million haul in the second fundraising quarter, outraising 
two of her top rivals - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Kamala 
Harris (D-Calif.) — as she capped off a strong June (The Hill). 
The total is third among Democratic candidates, behind only South Bend, 
Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) and former Vice President Joe Biden, as 
Warren continues to see her star grow in the 2020 race behind a nonstop 
string of policy proposals and progressive energy. 
The latest figures put Warren in a strong spot as she looks to hold onto her 
spot in the top tier of candidates. On top of the fundraising figure, she also 
has $19.7 million in cash on hand and more than 300 staffers on the payroll. 
After fears that she could be in trouble due to a high burn rate of campaign 
funds, she has dramatically reduced that figure from 85 percent to 55 
percent, putting her on more stable footing (Politico). 
The Washington Post: "You are who?" The lonely presidential campaign of 
John Hickenlooper. 
The Wall Street Journal: Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) struggles 
to break out of crowded Democratic field. 
The Washington Post Magazine: The ignoring of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand 
(D-N.Y.). 
Mona Charen: How a Democrat can win over a never-Trumper. 
> Cocaine Mitch: Democrats want to flip the script on Republicans by 
using Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as the poster boy 
for next year's congressional elections in the same way Republicans have 
repeatedly and successfully "posterized" Pelosi, former Senate Majority 
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McConnell often manages to fly under the radar by being so low-key but 
after he helped Trump fill two Supreme Court vacancies and with a pile-up 
of House-passed bills in the Senate, Democrats say using McConnell as a 
rallying banner can be effective (The Hill). 
Paul Kane: North Carolina runoff a test of women's standing in the 
Republican Party. 
Elsewhere on the political scene ... Kris Kobach, the former Kansas 
secretary of state, announced Monday that he will run for an open U.S. 
Senate seat in 2020, drawing the ire of national Republicans who are 
determined to not let him become the nominee. Kobach, a top Trump 
supporter who lost the gubernatorial contest last year, is running to replace 
retiring Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) (The Hill) ... CNN announced that they 
will hold a live draw to determine the debate lineups for the next Democratic 
presidential debates on July 30 and July 31 in Detroit (CNN). 
IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES 
WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: Trump delivered an East Room 
speech about "environmental leadership" on Monday that was long on praise 
for energy producers and the strong U.S. economy and silent about 
combating climate change, which most Americans say is a top concern as 
they ponder the Oval Office occupant in 2021 (The Hill). 
The president opted to deliver the 45-minute address at the urging of his 
daughter, Ivanka Trump, who wanted the president to defend his 
environmental record, according to Axios. 
The New York Times reported that the idea came from the president's 
campaign consultants, who believe that Trump's environmental policies hurt 
him among millennials and suburban women, two blocs of voters his 
Democratic rivals are wooing. 
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Bottom line: The speech suggests the president's advisers fear he is losing 
support he captured in 2016 and that courting his base of non-college-
educated white men is not enough to win next year. The contents of Trump's 
one-off energy speech, however, appeared unlikely to rebrand his 
environmental reputation. 
Trump argues that his unwinding of Obama-era environmental regulations 
stayed true to his campaign promises, but his promotion of petroleum and 
coal and denial of the science behind calls to combat global warming remain 
unpopular with a majority of Americans, according to recent surveys. 
> Iran: The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday that Iran 
resumed enriching uranium to higher levels than permitted under a 2015 
accord with the United States and other world powers. Tehran cannot 
currently build a nuclear bomb, but it is steps closer to that potential. The 
New York Times outlined what occurred in the past and what's likely to 
happen next. 
> Department of Justice: From defending Trump's ambitions for a 
citizenship question on the 2020 census to blasting House Democrats ahead 
of a hearing next week with star witness former special counsel 
Mueller, Attorney General William Barr is busy. 
The president's battles over the census are noisily public (The Hill), while 
some experts believe Trump's strategy is to create enough confusion to 
upend census participation among a sizable number of minorities, even if 
the administration loses its arguments in court (Reuters). 
In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Barr said the 
administration will take action in the coming days that he believes will allow 
the government to add the controversial census question about citizenship. 
Barr would not detail the plans, although a senior official said Trump is 
expected to issue a memorandum to the Commerce Department instructing 
it to include the question in the 2020 census. Such a move is likely to be 
immediately challenged in court. 
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Pelosi said Monday that Trump wants to add the demand for citizenship 
information because he wants to "make America white again." 
> Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta: Federal charges filed Monday in 
New York against wealthy hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein put Acosta, 
a member of Trump's cabinet, back in the spotlight because he's the former 
U.S. Attorney in Miami who helped a sexual predator secure a lenient plea 
deal that shielded him from federal prosecution following sexual contact with 
dozens of underage girls 11 years ago (The Hill). 
Republican senators declined to criticize Acosta following the new federal 
charges of sex trafficking against Epstein, 66 (The Hill). White House 
officials are concerned that House Democrats may call some of Epstein's 
victims to testify on Capitol Hill about the plea deal Acosta negotiated in 
2008, putting the Trump cabinet official in the klieg lights. Acosta declined to 
comment on Monday (The Washington Post). 
The Justice Department is facing renewed criticism that it mishandled the 
Epstein case years ago, and Barr recused himself on Monday because his 
former law firm, Kirkland and Ellis, had represented Epstein (The New York 
Times). 
Epstein pleaded not guilty to the New York charges. Under the Florida deal, 
he pleaded guilty to state prostitution-related charges and was allowed to go 
to his office during the day while he served his sentence a decade ago. He 
also registered as a sex offender and agreed to pay millions of dollars to 
dozens of his victims. 
Fortune: Who is Epstein? 
More administration news: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assembled a 
controversial advisory group on Monday to assess what is meant by "human 
rights"in U.S. foreign policy (The Hill) ... Trump said he will not work with 
Great Britain's ambassador to the United States, who called the Trump 
administration "inept" in a private cable that was leaked (The Hill) ... The 
Internal Revenue Service's in-house watchdog, Nina Olson, is retiring at the 
end of the month (The Hill). 
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OPINION 
Democrats 'shooting holes in their own boat' with single-payer plan, 
by Albert Hunt, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/32hwJX5 
We need to know where Democratic candidates stand on nuclear 
weapons, by Lisbeth Gronlund and IM Wright, opinion contributors, The 
Hill. https://bit.ly/2Lc9mbS 
WHERE AND WHEN 
Hill.TV's "Rising" program features Rachel Bitecofer, assistant director 
at the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, to 
discuss the negative partisanship model's prediction that Trump will lose in 
2020; Natalie Wynn, a noted YouTuber, to talk about YouTube 
radicalization; and Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert, who discusses 
manipulated media known as deepfakes at 9 a.m. ET at 
http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. at Rising on YouTube. 
The House convenes at 2 p.m. The House Intelligence Committee will hear 
closed-door testimony this morning from former Trump business associate 
Felix Sater (The Hill). 
The Senate meets at 10 a.m. 
The president welcomes the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-
Thani, to the White House for meetings and a working lunch this afternoon, 
joined by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Trump will also participate 
in a commercial signing ceremonies event in the Roosevelt Room with the 
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sheikh prior to the lunch. 
Vice President Pence begins his day with a meeting with Latvian Prime 
Minister Arturs Kri§ranis Karin§. The vice president will join Trump for 
events with the emir of Qatar in the West Wing. 
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivers prepared remarks 
about stress testing at financial institutions during the Federal Reserve 
Board Conference in Boston at 8:45 a.m. 
ELSEWHERE 
-> Tech: Federal regulators and Congress want YouTube to take new 
steps to protect children from problematic content. Consumer groups are 
urging the Federal Trade Commission, which is finishing its probe into 
alleged violations of children's privacy laws, to hit the company with tough 
penalties. And the Senate Judiciary Committee today holds a hearing in 
which YouTube is in the spotlight (The Hill). ... The leaders of the tech 
industry's most prominent advocacy groups in Washington are increasingly 
female, a trend some hope to see spread Silicon Valley tech companies that 
are still male-dominated (The Hill). 
—> Minimum wage: The pending Raise the Wage Act sponsored by 
congressional Democrats would give 17 million people a raise and lift 1.3 
million out of poverty, but also eliminate jobs for 1.3 million workers in the 
same period, according to the Congressional Budget Office. House 
Democrats expect to bring the bill, which would gradually increase the 
federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 to $15 by 2025, to a vote next 
week (The Hill). 
-+ News of the weird: A Lithuanian couple defended their title in the World 
Wife-Carrying Championship, held in Finland on Saturday. It's a contest that 
attracts couples from around the world, including from the United States. 
Men complete an obstacle course with their wives slung over their backs. 
The peculiar competition has been going on for 24 years, although the 
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Mondays flash flooding in the Washington metro area 
caught many by surprise as commuters encountered rivers instead of 
roadways, subway stops could have been mistaken for Niagara Falls and 
planes were temporarily grounded under a deluge of between three and five 
inches of rain in the span of two hours, depending on location. 
It was biblical. Gutters and roofs failed, power outages spread, trees toppled 
and the White House press basement area looked like a retaining pond until 
special equipment arrived. 
OK, not an earthquake, not a dangerous wildfire but definitely a swamp. The 
National Weather Service issued its first-ever flash flood warning for the 
District on Monday morning. In the midst of the seventh wettest July day 
recorded since 1871, Washington was knee-deep and all wet. 
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push to make McConnell their 2020 boogeyman I Trump delivers energy speech to tout his environmental policies I Barr says Trump 
has an executive path to add citizenship question to 2020 census I Iran verifies it breached 2015 nuclear accord I Labor Secretary 
Acosta back in spotlight following Epstein arrest in New York 
Welcome to The Hill's Morning Report. Happy Tuesday! Our newsletter gets 
you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, 
plus trends to watch. Co-creators are Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver 
(CLICK HERE to subscribe!). On Twitter, find us at @asimendinger and 
@alweaver22. 
Just over a week after internal discord spilled into the open, tensions still 
simmer within the House Democratic Caucus over how to tackle the situation 
at the border including abysmal conditions for the detention of some 
migrants. 
As Rafael Bernal and Juliegrace Brufke report, the battle over the $4.6 billion 
border bill supplemental funding that passed the House on June 27 left 
wounds within the conference. Progressives and moderates disagree within 
the party, as evidenced by a high-profile back-and-forth skirmish between 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-
N.Y.). 
The two Democratic heavyweights have clashed since the speaker made 
dismissive remarks about the influence of the freshman lawmaker in an 
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interview with The New York Times, suggesting the firebrands are 'lour 
people" in the House Democratic caucus, adding that "they didn't have any 
following" outside of Twitter. 
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a top left-wing organization, 
blasted Pelosi for her remarks, saying Ocasio-Cortez is "more of a true 
leader" than the speaker. 
Pelosi has since tried to turn the page and work toward addressing the 
situation for migrants at facilities such as the one in Clint, Texas, a focus of 
media attention after Ocasio-Cortez and 20 other House Democrats toured 
the facility early last week. 
"Whether or not the President responds to our request to improve medical 
care standards for the health and safety of children, and while Senator 
McConnell still refuses to help the children suffering in these deplorable 
conditions, we must lead a Battle Cry across America to protect the children," 
Pelosi wrote in a note to her colleagues. 
While the two Democrats duke it out, a larger and potentially more 
consequential fight is playing out between members of the Congressional 
Progressive Caucus (CPC) and the Problem Solvers Caucus, a main vehicle 
for the party's moderates. After the votes to approve supplemental funding for 
needs at the border, progressive members believe it will be tough to work 
with moderate colleagues, and some have threatened to retaliate by slowing 
committee momentum for select bills. CPC members chair many of the 
committees, including Judiciary, Rules, Oversight and Reform, Homeland 
Security, Small Business, and Natural Resources. 
"I mean, it's just gonna be a lot harder for us to care enough to help deliver 
votes, "said Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), co-chairman of the CPC, who 
recently referred to the Problem Solvers Caucus as the "Child Abuse Caucus" 
over its support for the border supplemental. 
The Washington Post: House to vote on new border bill amid outcry over 
conditions at migrant detention centers. 
> As Democrats debate what to do next, the Department of Homeland 
Security is continuing its crackdown of the border and asked the Pentagon to 
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authorize 1,000 additional Texas National Guard troops to the region "to 
provide supplemental holding and port of entry enforcement support." 
The increase would be in addition to the 1,900 National Guard members 
already at the border and 2,300 active-duty troops who are on border-related 
missions. The request was made on Wednesday (CNN). 
Meanwhile, the House is back to work today after a 10-day July Fourth 
recess, set to resume negotiations on spending caps and a hike in the debt 
ceiling. Those congressional talks are in limbo with less than three months 
left before a fiscal deadline looms. Half of that time is expected to be spent 
away from Washington as House members return to their districts for a six-
week August recess. 
As CNN's Phil Mattingly reports: 
"The preferred method is to strike an all-encompassing two-year budget deal. 
At this point, after several meetings of top negotiators, things have moved 
further away from a deal. The internal dynamics of the Democratic caucus 
laid bare by the immigration funding fight two weeks ago have only served to 
exacerbate concerns about any path to a final resolution." 
Bloomberg: Debt limit, USMCA clocks ticking as Pelosi wrangles her party. 
The Hill: White House repeatedly blocks ex-aide from answering Judiciary 
panel questions. 
LEADING 
THE DAY 
2020 CAMPAIGN & POLITICS: In a year when the popular move has been 
to run for president, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) decided to go the other 
way and closed up shop on his 2020 bid, temporarily contracting the 
Democratic presidential field. 
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Swalwell announced that he was dropping out during a press conference in 
Dublin, Calif., on Monday afternoon following reports that he had discussed 
shutting the doors on his 2020 bid after he canceled two days of campaigning 
in New Hampshire during the July Fourth holiday. 
"We have to be honest about our own candidacy's viability,"Swalwell told 
reporters, adding that he will run for reelection to the House instead. He did 
not endorse any of his former 2020 competitors (The Hill). 
While one California Democrat ended his bid, another is expected to launch 
one of his own as Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor who has loudly called 
for President Trump's impeachment, reportedly plans to enter the race on 
Tuesday. 
Steyer's likely move comes despite his January announcement that he would 
not run in 2020, saying at the time that he planned to focus all of his time and 
energy in the push to impeach the president. However, according to reports, 
Steyer has had second thoughts in recent months and seemed uneasy about 
his January decision. 
The potential announcement would bring the Democratic field back to 25 
candidates. 
The New York Times: Farewell, Swalwell: As one 2020 Democrat drops out, 
will others follow? 
> Warren rises: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Monday that 
she posted a $19.1 million haul in the second fundraising quarter, outraising 
two of her top rivals — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Kamala Harris 
(D-Calif.) — as she capped off a strong June (The Hill). 
The total is third among Democratic candidates, behind only South Bend, 
Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) and former Vice President Joe Biden, as 
Warren continues to see her star grow in the 2020 race behind a nonstop 
string of policy proposals and progressive energy. 
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The latest figures put Warren in a strong spot as she looks to hold onto her 
spot in the top tier of candidates. On top of the fundraising figure, she also 
has $19.7 million in cash on hand and more than 300 staffers on the payroll. 
After fears that she could be in trouble due to a high burn rate of campaign 
funds, she has dramatically reduced that figure from 85 percent to 55 
percent, putting her on more stable footing (Politico). 
The Washington Post: "You are who?" The lonely presidential campaign of 
John Hickenlooper. 
The Wall Street Journal: Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) struggles to 
break out of crowded Democratic field. 
The Washington Post Magazine: The ignoring of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-
N.Y.). 
Mona Charen: How a Democrat can win over a never-Trumper. 
> Cocaine Mitch: Democrats want to flip the script on Republicans by using 
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as the poster boy for next 
year's congressional elections in the same way Republicans have repeatedly 
and successfully "posterized" Pelosi, former Senate Majority Leader Harry 
Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in 
past years. 
McConnell often manages to fly under the radar by being so low-key but after 
he helped Trump fill two Supreme Court vacancies and with a pile-up of 
House-passed bills in the Senate, Democrats say using McConnell as a 
rallying banner can be effective (The Hill). 
Paul Kane: North Carolina runoff a test of women's standing in the 
Republican Party. 
Elsewhere on the political scene ... Kris Kobach, the former Kansas 
secretary of state, announced Monday that he will run for an open U.S. 
Senate seat in 2020, drawing the ire of national Republicans who are 
determined to not let him become the nominee. Kobach, a top Trump 
supporter who lost the gubernatorial contest last year, is running to replace 
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retiring Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) (The Hill) ... CNN announced that they 
will hold a five draw to determine the debate lineups for the next Democratic 
presidential debates on July 30 and July 31 in Detroit (CNN). 
IN 
FOCUS/SHARP 
TAKES 
WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: Trump delivered an East Room 
speech about "environmental leadership" on Monday that was long on praise 
for energy producers and the strong U.S. economy and silent about 
combating climate change, which most Americans say is a top concern as 
they ponder the Oval Office occupant in 2021 (The Hill). 
The president opted to deliver the 45-minute address at the urging of his 
daughter, Ivanka Trump, who wanted the president to defend his 
environmental record, according to Axios. 
The New York Times reported that the idea came from the president's 
campaign consultants, who believe that Trump's environmental policies hurt 
him among millennials and suburban women, two blocs of voters his 
Democratic rivals are wooing. 
Bottom line: The speech suggests the president's advisers fear he is losing 
support he captured in 2016 and that courting his base of non-college-
educated white men is not enough to win next year. The contents of Trump's 
one-off energy speech, however, appeared unlikely to rebrand his 
environmental reputation. 
Trump argues that his unwinding of Obama-era environmental regulations 
stayed true to his campaign promises, but his promotion of petroleum and 
coal and denial of the science behind calls to combat global warming remain 
unpopular with a majority of Americans, according to recent surveys. 
> Iran: The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday that Iran 
resumed enriching uranium to higher levels than permitted under a 2015 
accord with the United States and other world powers. Tehran cannot 
currently build a nuclear bomb, but it is steps closer to that potential. The 
New York Times outlined what occurred in the past and what's likely to 
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happen next. 
> Department of Justice: From defending Trump's ambitions for a 
citizenship question on the 2020 census to blasting House Democrats ahead 
of a hearing next week with star witness former special counsel 
Mueller, Attorney General William Barr is busy. 
The president's battles over the census are noisily public (The Hill), while 
some experts believe Trump's strategy is to create enough confusion to 
upend census participation among a sizable number of minorities, even if the 
administration loses its arguments in court (Reuters). 
In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Barr said the 
administration will take action in the coming days that he believes will allow 
the government to add the controversial census question about citizenship. 
Barr would not detail the plans, although a senior official said Trump is 
expected to issue a memorandum to the Commerce Department instructing it 
to include the question in the 2020 census. Such a move is likely to be 
immediately challenged in court. 
Pelosi said Monday that Trump wants to add the demand for citizenship 
information because he wants to "make America white again." 
> Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta: Federal charges filed Monday in New 
York against wealthy hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein put Acosta, a 
member of Trump's cabinet, back in the spotlight because he's the former 
U.S. Attorney in Miami who helped a sexual predator secure a lenient plea 
deal that shielded him from federal prosecution following sexual contact with 
dozens of underage girls 11 years ago (The Hill). 
Republican senators declined to criticize Acosta following the new federal 
charges of sex trafficking against Epstein, 66 (The Hill). White House officials 
are concerned that House Democrats may call some of Epstein's victims to 
testify on Capitol Hill about the plea deal Acosta negotiated in 2008, putting 
the Trump cabinet official in the klieg lights. Acosta declined to comment on 
Monday (The Washington Post). 
The Justice Department is facing renewed criticism that it mishandled the 
Epstein case years ago, and Barr recused himself on Monday because his 
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