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-- The hyper-politicization of the Justice Department is one of the 
many norms that have eroded since Trump called for Hillary 
Clinton to be jailed repeatedly throughout the 2016 campaign. 
Chants of "Lock her up!" still break out at the president's rallies, more 
than two and a half years after the election. 
Politicians are responding to their bases. "I don't want to see him 
impeached, I want to see him in prison," Speaker Nancy Pelosi told 
House Democrats during a meeting last month, per Politico. 
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said "yes" when asked by NPR last 
month if she would want her Justice Department to prosecute 
Trump for obstruction of justice. "I believe that they would have no 
choice and that they should," said Harris, a former state attorney 
general. "There has to be accountability. The president is not above the 
law. ... I've seen prosecution of cases on much less evidence." 
Pete Buttigieg was asked the same question by the Atlantic: "To 
the extent that there's an obstruction case, then yes, DOJ's got to 
deal with it," said the mayor of South Bend, Ind. "I would want any 
credible allegation of criminal behavior to be investigated to the fullest." 
Former congressman Beto O'Rourke told ABC's "This Week" that 
he believes Trump committed crimes that could be prosecuted. "I 
would want my Justice Department, any future administration's Justice 
Department, to follow the facts and the truth and to make sure, at the 
end of the day, that there is accountability and justice," said the Texan. 
In stark contrast to this rhetoric, Barack Obama rejected clamoring 
from his left flank to prosecute members of the George W. Bush 
administration related to their conduct during the wars in Iraq and 
Afghanistan. "We need to look forward as opposed to looking 
backwards," Obama said as president-elect in 2009. 
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-- Compared with this crop of candidates, Obama seems 
exceedingly cautious on a host of issues, including immigration. 
As president, he rejected calls to give federal health subsidies to 
undocumented immigrants. But all 10 candidates onstage for the 
second night of last month's first debate raised their hands when asked 
if they favor offering health insurance to undocumented immigrants, 
though some later clarified  that they didn't support offering full coverage. 
Nine of the 10 raised their hands to say they backed Castro's plan 
to treat border crossings as a civil offense rather than a crime. "I 
wouldn't be truthful if I said I was not concerned," said Rep. Jeff Van 
Drew (D-N.J.), who won in 2018 in a conservative district that Trump 
carried. "That's another way of saying we're going to just have open 
borders," he told Matt Viser. "That's not good for the country. We can't 
have endless people coming in. I do believe we need borders, and the 
border even needs to have physical structure." 
Castro has been ripping Biden for the past two weeks after the 
former vice president told CNN that he opposes decriminalizing 
border crossings. "I saw that Vice President Biden said that he does 
not want to repeal Section 1325 of the Immigration and Nationality Act," 
Castro said in Milwaukee last Thursday. "It is clear that between him 
and me, one of us has learned the lessons of the past and the other 
hasn't." 
-- My colleague Dave Weigel, who was also at Netroots, followed 
the attendees who marched to Biden's HQ. "Members of Movimiento 
Cosecha occupied the lobby, some of them standing behind a banner 
(BIDEN: WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN 3 MILLION DEPORTATIONS) 
and some speaking through a bullhorn," Weigel reports. "'We can't 
forget Obama's legacy,' said Florida-based immigrant rights activist 
Catalina Santiago, who was born in Mexico. 'He promised the immigrant 
community papers, an ability to have a dignified life. Yet eight years 
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later, he deported 3 million people, and Biden was complicit in that.' ... 
Santiago received protections under the Obama administration's DACA 
program for some young undocumented immigrants, but he was fixated 
on what they hadn't gotten. Biden attended Netroots only once, in 2014, 
when he was interrupted by protesters furious at the administration's 
deportation policy — a policy designed to set up an immigration 
restructuring compromise that never happened." 
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) 
listen during a House Oversight and Reform Committee meeting in February. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) 
-- Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one of the four lawmakers 
attacked by Trump on Sunday, said during a panel at Netroots that 
she and other liberals who recently visited immigrant detention 
facilities in Texas encountered hostility and resistance from 
Customs and Border Protection officers. She sought to diagnose 
why some of the hostility came from people of color. 
"It's not that people are averse to change. They are resistant to loss," 
Pressley said on Saturday. "People were angry at us because we were 
taking away their neighbor's jobs with our calls to abolish ICE and to not 
want to continue to feed a system that criminalizes people for doing 
something that is a legal and human right, and that is to seek asylum. 
So, disproportionately, black and brown people, because you don't even 
need a high school diploma to be a CBP officer, their only pathway to 
the middle class is to work for CBP. And they are now a part of this 
larger machine — a cog — in the oppression and incarceration of people 
who look just like them." 
-- Meanwhile, an armed man was fatally shot Saturday after 
throwing what authorities called "incendiary devices" at an 
immigration detention center in Washington state and trying to set 
a commercial-size propane tank on fire, according to Tacoma 
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police. "About 4 a.m., 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen threw lit 
objects' at buildings and at cars in a parking lot, police said, causing a 
vehicle to go up in flames," Hannah Knowles reports. "Court records 
show the man was arrested last year at a protest at the same 
detention center. He pleaded guilty to obstructing a law 
enforcement officer, court records show." 
The Northwest Detention Center on the Tacoma Tideflats is owned 
and operated for ICE by a private company called the GEO Group. 
The company said in a statement that it is concerned that "outrageous 
and baseless accusations that have been leveled against our facilities 
have led to misplaced aggression and a dangerous environment for our 
employees." "Contrary to the images of other facilities on the news, our 
facilities have never been overcrowded, nor have they ever housed 
unaccompanied minors," said GEO spokesman Pablo Paez. 
No ICE employees or detainees were hurt. The agency called the 
man an "anti-immigration-enforcement protester": "This could have 
resulted in the mass murder of staff and detainees housed at the facility 
had he been successful at setting the tank ablaze," said Shawn Fallah, 
who heads the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility. "These are the 
kinds of incidents that keep you up at night." 
Deb Bartley, who said she was a longtime friend of Van 
Spronsen's, told the Seattle Times she believes he intended to die 
by attacking the detention center: "He was ready to end it. I think this 
was a suicide. But then he was able to kind of do it in a way that spoke 
to his political beliefs." 
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Migrant mother testifies about daughter's death in ICE custody 
-- The nationwide immigration raids that Trump said would begin 
Sunday failed to materialize on the streets of major U.S. cities, 
even as his statement cast a cloud of fear that kept many families 
indoors. Abigail Hauslohner and Nick Miroff report: "Immigration 
enforcement authorities said their plans to track down migrants with 
deportation orders would continue, but their operations over the 
weekend appeared more akin to routine actions rather than the mass 
roundups the president promised. Immigrants and advocates had been 
bracing for the arrests, which Trump last warned of on Friday, saying he 
wanted agents 'to take people out and take them back to their 
countries.' But federal law enforcement officials said they worried that 
the unusual public disclosure of the plan endangered officers and 
threatened their effectiveness. 
"Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva went on television to 
say `unequivocally' that his department would not cooperate with 
ICE, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms urged undocumented 
immigrants to stay in their homes Sunday. ... Chicago Mayor Lori E. 
Lightfoot on Friday terminated ICE's access to Chicago Police 
Department databases and increased the city's Legal Protection Fund 
by $250,000 to support legal aid to immigrants. ... New York City 
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officials said Saturday night that ICE agents were spotted conducting 
'enforcement operations' in two neighborhoods but that no arrests were 
made after residents declined to answer their doors. ... 'All quiet in 
Houston,' Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Sunday. 'I expect ICE 
will conduct routine removal operations during the week.-
-- The Trump administration moved this morning to end asylum 
protections for most Central American migrants in a major 
escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of 
people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The Associated Press 
reports: "According to a new rule published in the Federal Register, 
asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible 
for asylum at the U.S. southern border. The rule, expected to go into 
effect on Tuesday, also applies to children who have crossed the border 
alone. There are some exceptions ... But the move was meant to 
essentially end asylum protections as they now are on the southern 
border. The policy is almost certain to face a legal challenge." 
More on the immigration wars: 
• Maria Sacchetti: "Former Southwest Key leader who ran migrant 
child shelters for U.S. government earned $3.6 million in 2017." 
• Politico: "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acting Director 
Ken Cuccinelli refused to say Sunday whether children caught up in 
deportation raids would be separated from their parents." 
• The Post's Editorial Board: "Trump's planned deportations are 
mainly for show. That's all." 
• Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot op-ed for The Post: "Why Chicago 
police will not assist ICE in its raids." 
• The Rev. Randall Keeney, the vicar at St. Barnabas Episcopal 
Church in Greensboro, N.C.: "Want to provide sanctuary to an 
undocumented person? This is what it takes." 
• ProPublica: "Border Patrol Agents Are Passing Around A 
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Commemorative Coin Mocking Care for Migrant Kids. The coin 
declares `KEEP THE CARAVANS COMING' under an image of a 
parade of migrants crossing the border." 
• The Intercept: "Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost was a member 
of the secret Facebook group." 
• Adweek: "Ogilvy Leadership Confronts Staff Concerns Over 
Customs and Border Protection Contract. Chairman John Seifert 
addresses work for client in internal email." 
-- Sebastian Smee encourages D.C.-area readers to go check out a 
new exhibition about migration and the global refugee crisis at the 
Phillips Collection. Our in-house art critic says "The Warmth of Other 
Suns: Stories of Global Displacement" restores good faith — along with 
nuance, the perspective of history and human feeling — to a subject 
more often today used cynically, so that people with heart-rending 
stories are reduced to hollow numbers. 
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'Just a big old mess': Along the Louisiana coast, cleaning up after Barry 
GET SMART FAST: 
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1. Barry, a storm that briefly became the first hurricane of the 
season, delivered torrential rain to Louisiana and Mississippi 
on Sunday as it migrated at a lazy pace northward toward 
Arkansas. This has been a big, soggy tropical storm, but it 
underperformed most forecasts. New Orleans, Baton Rouge and 
other waterlogged communities seem to have dodged the kind of full-
blown natural disaster that seemed possible just a few days earlier. 
(■ 
, Ashley Cusick, Mark Berman and Joel Achenbach) 
2. Investigators in Louisiana worked through the weekend, 
despite the storm, to determine how the founder of the Baton 
Rouge African American history museum founder ended up 
dead in the trunk of a car. Sadie Roberts-_, 75, was 
discovered in the trunk of a car Friday afternoon about three miles 
from her home. An autopsy is scheduled for today. (The Advocate) 
3. Airlines are planning for the possibility that Boeing's 
beleaguered 737 Max commercial jetliners will remain out of 
commission late into the fall, as the company works to fix a host 
of technical problems that have rendered the planes grounded since 
early March. The three U.S. airlines that operate Max jets —
American Airlines, United and Southwest — announced in recent 
days they will cancel 737 Max flights through Nov. 2, Nov. 3 and 
Oct. 1, respectively, affecting hundreds of flights every day. (Aaron 
Gregg and Douglas MacMillan) 
4. India called off its much-awaited second lunar mission an 
hour before the scheduled launch, citing a "technical snag," in 
a setback for the country's growing ambitions in space. (Niha Masih) 
5. China's economy decelerated to its slowest growth rate in 27 
years, partly because of a slump in exports. The data is likely to 
bolster Trump's belief that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, is 
under pressure to strike a trade deal to shore up the world's second-
largest economy. (Anna Fifield) 
6. Protests in Hong Kong expanded in terms of geographical 
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reach and demands as thousands of people marched in the 
streets of a populous suburb, calling not just for the complete 
withdrawal of a bill allowing extradition to China but also the 
right to vote for their leaders. Violent clashes broke out between 
riot police and a small group of protesters. Police said that more 
than 40 people were arrested, and Hong Kong's hospital authority 
said 22 people were injured. (Shibani Mahtani) 
7. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's cost-
cutting spree is generating chaos and leading to political 
backlash. In just 71/2  months, the leftist president has achieved the 
kind of cost-cutting revolution that conservatives in Washington can 
only dream of. Thousands of federal jobs have been eliminated, and 
overseas travel has been slashed. But what started as a popular 
attack on official privilege has led to judges rebelling over salary 
cuts, public hospitals canceling surgeries and forest fires blazing out 
of control because of a lack of firefighters. (Mary Beth Sheridan) 
8. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he granted a visa to 
Iran's foreign minister to visit New York primarily to meet U.S. 
obligations to the United Nations, but the official's movements 
will be sharply curtailed. Pompeo said in a telephone interview last 
night that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his 
delegation will be permitted to travel between U.N. headquarters and 
the Iranian mission six blocks away, and to the residence of Iran's 
U.N. ambassador nearby. The group arrived in New York on Sunday 
morning. (Carol Morello) 
9. Britain said it will work for the release of an Iranian 
supertanker seized near Gibraltar if Iran guarantees the ship 
will not travel to Syria in breach of European Union sanctions. 
British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said he held a "constructive 
call" with Zarif. (Erin Cunningham) 
10. The Congolese health ministry confirmed an Ebola case in 
Goma, the first time the virus has reached the city of more than 2 
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million people since the epidemic began nearly a year ago. (Stat) 
11. Jeffrey Epstein's arrest is reverberating in Israel. Prime 
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party are 
calling for a criminal probe into former prime minister Ehud Barak's 
personal and business ties with the accused sex trafficker. (Miami 
Herald)
12. Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer in a marathon fifth set 
to win his second straight Wimbledon title. (Liz Clarke and Ava 
Wallace) 
'He knows better': Trump tweet targeting minority, liberal congresswomen prompts outcry 
RACE IN AMERICA: 
-- Trump tweeted Sunday morning that four minority, liberal 
congresswomen who have been critical of House Speaker Nancy 
Pelosi (D-Calif.) should "go back and help fix the totally broken and 
crime infested places from which they came." Felicia Sonmez and 
Mike DeBonis report: "Trump's remark swiftly united a House 
Democratic caucus that had been torn apart in recent days by infighting 
between Pelosi and the four freshman women of color — Pressley 
(Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and 
Ilhan Omar (Minn.). Pressley was born in Cincinnati, Tlaib was born in 
Detroit and Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York — about 20 miles from 
where Trump was born. Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia; her 
family fled the country amid civil war when she was a child, and she 
became a U.S. citizen as a teenager. All four women won election to 
Congress in 2018. 
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"By Sunday evening, at least 90 House Democrats [plus 
independent Justin Amash (Mich.)], had denounced Trump's 
remarks, with more than half of them using the words `racist' or 
`racism' to describe his tweets. Some Democrats went even further. 
'This is white nationalism,' said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who is 
running for president. Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, stayed 
largely silent." 
-- "Trump fans the flame of a racial fire," Peter Baker writes on the 
front page of today's New York Times. "Trump woke up on Sunday 
morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race 
relations and decided to throw a match on it. It was not the first time, nor 
is it likely to be the last. He has a pretty large carton of matches and a 
ready supply of kerosene." 
-- Conservative blogger John Hinderaker calls this "the single 
stupidest act of Trump's presidency." 
Beto O'Rourke, who supports reparations, revealed last night 
that both he and his wife recently learned that his ancestors owned 
slaves. "O'Rourke's revelation, which was sparked by the Guardian's 
investigation into his roots, comes as reparations have emerged as a 
litmus test for Democrats seeking the White House," 
Elf rink reports. 
"Last week, reports that ancestors of Senate Majority Leader Mitch 
McConnell (R-Ky.) owned slaves raised questions about whether those 
historical crimes are relevant for politicians weighing the issue today. 
McConnell, who opposes reparations, has denied that his family's 
legacy should impact his stance, noting that tracing the history of 
slaveholding is complex enough that even former president Barack 
Obama had forebears who owned slaves. But to O'Rourke, learning of 
his own familial ties to human bondage crystallized the benefits slave 
trading bestowed on his clan — and the need to correct those lasting 
effects today." 
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"I benefit from a system that my ancestors built to favor themselves at 
the expense of others," O'Rourke wrote on Medium. "That only 
increases the urgency I feel to help change this country so that it works 
for those who have been locked-out of — or locked-up in — this 
system." 
-- The past is not past. It's not even past: By a proclamation of the 
governor, Saturday was Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in Tennessee. 
Gov. Bill . 
(R) called the slave trader, Confederate general and first 
grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan a "recognized military figure in 
American history." The history: "Forrest Day has been a holiday in 
Tennessee since 1921. Since 1969, Forrest has been honored with a 
day of observation," Hannah Knowles reports. "The state code 
enshrining Forrest Day says the governor must also proclaim 
commemorations including 
E.
 Day on Jan. 19 and 
Confederate Decoration Day on June 3. ... 'I signed the bill because the 
law requires that I do that, and I haven't looked at changing that law,' 
• 
said. .... 
has said he doesn't support removing a similarly 
controversial bust of Forrest from the state Capitol. He says he does not 
want to 'whitewash history.-
"We shouldn't be issuing proclamations today honoring 
Klansmen," tweeted  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who did not weigh in on 
Trump's comments about the Squad. 
HEALTH CARE: 
-- Among the top four Democrats in national polls, Biden is the 
only one who has vocally opposed ending private health insurance 
in favor of a government-run plan. Sen. 
Bennet (D-Colo.) is 
particularly alarmed by the shift in the debate. "Donald Trump, you 
can see it in his face. He thinks the game is coming to him. You can see 
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it in his face every day," Bennet told Matt Viser for a broader story in 
today's newspaper on the party's leftward lurch. "If we nominate 
someone that is for that plan, we will not win the presidency and we will 
have no hope of winning a majority in the Senate. We should be on 
offense on health care. But if we're going to go into this election talking 
about taking away [employer-based] health insurance for 180 million 
people, I guarantee we will be on defense." 
Biden unveiled a proposal this morning to expand the Affordable 
Care Act with an optional public health insurance program, teeing 
up a fight that aides say he's eager to have with Bernie Sanders 
over Medicare-for-all. "Biden's plan, which campaign officials estimate 
would cost $750 billion over 10 years, would also expand tax credits to 
pay for health premiums, and it would create a new coverage option to 
help people living in states that have resisted the ACA's expansion of 
Medicaid," Sean Sullivan reports. 
"I understand the appeal of Medicare-for-all, but folks supporting it 
should be clear that it means getting rid of Obamacare, and I'm not 
for that," Biden says to the camera in the video embedded above. "I 
was very proud the day I stood there with Barack Obama, and he signed 
that legislation. ... Starting over makes no sense to me at all." (Biden will 
talk health care with "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika 
Brzezinski in Des Moines today for an interview that will air in the 6 a.m. 
hour tomorrow on MSNBC.) 
-- Sanders plans to deliver a detailed speech on Wednesday to 
criticize Democrats who don't support the single-payer, 
government-run plan he's championed for decades. 
-- Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) will release a proposal later today to 
allow more people to be eligible for Medicaid services. 
Mick Mulvaney and Ivanka Trump depart Marine One last month. (I= 
Lamarque Reuters) 
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PERSONNEL IS POLICY: 
-- Mick Mulvaney is building a fiefdom as acting White House chief 
of staff. Seung Min Kim, Lisa Rein, Josh Dawsey and Erica Werner 
interviewed 32 White House aides, current and former administration 
officials, lawmakers, and legislative staffers for an in-depth exploration 
of his rising influence: "Mulvaney spends considerably less time with 
Trump than his two previous chiefs of staff, Reince Priebus and 
John F. Kelly. And the president has sometimes kept him out of the loop 
when making contentious foreign policy decisions, advisers say. At a 
recent donor retreat in Chicago, Mulvaney told attendees that he does 
not seek to control the president's tweeting, time or family, one attendee 
said. Priebus and Kelly had clashed with the president over his Twitter 
statements and the influence of his eldest daughter and her husband. 
"Instead, Mulvaney has focused much of his energy on creating a 
new White House power center revolving around the long-dormant 
Domestic Policy Council and encompassing broad swaths of the 
administration. One White House official described Mulvaney as 
'building an empire for the right wing.' He has helped install more than a 
dozen ideologically aligned advisers in the West Wing since his 
December hiring. Cabinet members are pressed weekly on what 
regulations they can strip from the books and have been told their 
performance will be judged on how many they remove. Policy and 
spending decisions are now made by the White House and dictated to 
Cabinet agencies, instead of vice versa. ... Mulvaney — who has 
acknowledged to other advisers he knows little about foreign policy —
has installed a deputy for national security, Rob Blair, who regularly 
battles with [national security adviser John] Bolton and his allies. 
Mulvaney and Bolton are barely on speaking terms, and Blair has 
regularly challenged Bolton's subordinates." 
Mulvaney and Russ Vought, an ally he installed at the OMB, have 
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sought to persuade Trump to care more about cutting spending 
and the deficit. But Trump has rebuffed many of their proposed 
cuts as deficits soar: "Trump recently told West Wing aides that 
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told him no politician 
had ever lost office for spending more money. Two people with direct 
knowledge confirmed that McConnell delivered that message in a June 
phone call about budget sequestration. ... 
"Mulvaney faces significant obstacles on Capitol Hill, where he 
made enemies on both sides of the aisle during his three terms as 
a bomb-throwing House conservative. Democrats openly disdain him 
as a saboteur, while many key Republicans distrust his willingness to 
compromise, particularly on fiscal policy. GOP aides routinely trash 
Mulvaney in private. ... Some GOP senators freely signal they would 
rather deal with any other administration official than him. In a recent 
interview, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard C. 
Shelby (R-Ala.) paused for 10 seconds when asked whether Mulvaney 
was a productive force. Shelby finally responded that Mulvaney was 
'engaged' before pointing out that (Treasury Secretary) Mnuchin was 
the lead negotiator on behalf of the administration in the fiscal talks." 
Alexander Acosta's resignation is the most recent illustration of 
Mulvaney's power: "Weeks after he was named acting White House 
chief of staff, Mulvaney summoned the labor secretary for a tense 
January encounter that became known inside the West Wing as `the 
woodshed meeting.' Mulvaney told Acosta in blunt terms that the White 
House believed he was dragging his feet on regulation rollbacks desired 
by business interests and that he was on thin ice as a result. ... Soon 
after, Acosta proposed a spate of business-friendly rules on overtime 
pay and other policies. But it wasn't enough to save Acosta from 
Mulvaney's ire — and helps explain why the former federal prosecutor 
had such tepid administration support last week." 
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-- Connecting the dots: "No other U.S. president has lost so many 
Cabinet members in his first term to ethics issues. After Acosta, 
the total number of ethics-related Cabinet-level departures in the 
Trump administration has reached five," Paul Blumenthal notes on 
Huff Post. The others are Tom Price, Scott Pruitt, 
Shulkin and 
Ryan Zinke. 
-- With Acosta gone, Patrick Pizzella will take the reins today as 
acting secretary at the Labor Department. The Center for Responsive 
Politics scrutinizes his record as a lobbyist: "In the late 1990s, his 
clients included a Russian front group, the government of the 
Marshall Islands and a trade association fighting against the minimum 
wage in a U.S. commonwealth," per Reid Champlin and Jessica Piper. 
"For these and other clients, he worked with Jack Abramoff, who was 
at the forefront of a corruption scandal in the 2000s that ultimately 
resulted in 21 convictions and major reforms to lobbying laws. Pizzella 
was never accused of any wrongdoing." 
-- "Pizzella's ascendance to the top of the agency tasked with 
enforcing labor protections is something unions have long feared," 
Politico reports. 
-- Many Republicans who signed those "never Trump" letters in 
2016 are expressing regret because they've been shut out from 
administration jobs. "Of the 149 experts who signed at least one of 
the two letters warning that Trump was unfit for office ... just one 
has been hired by the Trump administration," 
Nakamura 
tabulated for a story in Sunday's paper. ' 
Jeffrey, a Middle East 
expert who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack 
Obama, was named the State Department's special representative for 
Syria last summer and in January was given the additional role of 
special envoy to counter the Islamic State. Neither of Jeffrey's roles 
required Senate confirmation, which would have risked Democratic 
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lawmakers reading from the never Trump letters at a public hearing. 
"Some of the never Trumpers expressed hope that the blacklist will 
erode around the edges; even if the White House refuses to hire 
them, they said, perhaps a determined Cabinet secretary can bring 
them on. Along with Jeffrey, they pointed to Elliott Abrams, a veteran of 
the Reagan and Bush administrations who did not sign the letters but 
wrote an op-ed in 2016 saying Trump should not be president and 
would lose the election. Trump foiled then-Secretary of State Rex 
Tillerson's attempt to name Abrams as his deputy in spring 2017. But 
Pompeo succeeded in January of this year in appointing Abrams as 
special envoy for Venezuela. Mary Kissel and Brian Hook, two other 
senior State Department officials, also were vocal critics of Trump during 
the campaign, though neither signed the letters. Like Jeffrey, Abrams, 
Kissel and Hook were named to positions that do not require Senate 
confirmation." 
-- The hot topic on the D.C. cocktail party circuit right now is: Who 
will be the next Cabinet secretary to go? NBC reports this morning 
that it might be Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. "Trump has told 
aides and allies that he is considering removing [him] after a stinging 
Supreme Court defeat on adding a citizenship question to the census," 
per Hans Nichols, Kayla Tausche and Hallie Jackson. "While Trump has 
previously expressed frustration with the 81-year-old Ross, in particular 
over failed trade negotiations, Ross's long personal relationship with the 
president has allowed him to keep his job. Frustrated by Ross' 
leadership of the Census Bureau, which is within the Commerce 
Department, Trump has been making calls to allies outside the White 
House musing about replacing Ross." 
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: 
Our Pentagon correspondent drew attention to a fallen service member 
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in Afghanistan: 
Nancy Pelosi said Trump proved that he always cared about "making 
America white again," not great: 
Tlaib replied to the president's attack: 
AOC responded to Trump by highlighting her office's work to help 
immigrants prepare for ICE raids: 
HRC weighed in: 
Another Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Ted Lieu (Calif.), who was born in 
Taiwan, talked about growing up with people who told him to "go back to 
China": 
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) responded to Trump by recounting how, 
despite being born in the United States, he was repeatedly told to "go 
back to Mexico" throughout his life, regardless of his service in the 
Marine Corps or how well he did in school: 
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Another House Democrat defended her colleagues and slammed 
Trump's tweets as racist, adding that the views of women of color would 
not be ignored: 
A former special agent at the FBI who now teaches at Yale said the 
tweets were hypocritical: 
A House Democrat from Northern Virginia added: 
A white congressman from Philly made a similar point: 
Responding to a Trump campaign spokesman's defense of Trump's 
tweet, a CNN fact-checker pointed out the flaw in his argument: 
Trump golfed with three Republican senators after his tweetstorm: 
After a day of criticism, the president escalated his attacks on the Squad 
last night: 
The president was back at it again this morning: 
A freshman Republican congressman from Texas reacted to the 
president's tweets: 
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An observation from a Times reporter: 
Monica Lewinsky shared the worst career advice she's ever received: 
A former state legislator from South Carolina encouraged CNN to book 
him and former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum together 
after the Daily Caller confused the pair: 
The comedian Conan O'Brien joked about Eric Swalwell's absence from 
the race: 
The California congressman replied — and so did Warren: 
QUOTE OF THE DAY: 
"My first act will be to ask Megan Rapinoe to be my secretary of state," 
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said at Netroots. "I haven't asked her yet, 
so this could be a surprise to her. I actually believe this because what I 
think what she has said that has inspired us so much is such an antithesis 
of the president's foreign policies." 
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