THE PRESIDENT’S MEMORIAL DAY MESSAGES, on Twitter this
morning: 8:16 a.m.: “HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!” … 8:18 a.m.: “TRANSITION
TO GREATNESS! Get ready, it is already happening again!” … retweet of 11:06
p.m. tweet: “OBAMAGATE” … retweet of another 11:06 p.m. tweet:
“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” … And this image
SOME MEMORIAL DAY fronts: L.A. Times: “REMEMBERING THE
FALLEN” … Sacramento Bee: “Veterans home could close due to
budget cuts” … The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.): “HONORING
THEIR COURAGE” … Chicago Tribune: “They survived wars, died of
virus” … Boston Herald: “SALUTE THE FALLEN” … N.Y. Post:
“Mourning in America” … Columbus Dispatch: “THE FLAG THEY
FOUGHT FOR”
INSIDE THE OVAL, from JOHN BRESNAHAN and JAKE: Sen. RICHARD SHELBY (R-Ala.) -- the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee -- went to see President DONALD TRUMP Tuesday to talk about spending bills for 2021.
SHELBY’S PRIORITY in visiting the White House was to convince the
president to declare the VA Mission Act as emergency spending. The program --
which allows veterans see doctors in their communities rather than the VA -- costs
$12.5 billion or so each year, and declaring it an emergency would remove it from
the budget’s bottom line, thus giving SHELBY additional money to spend on
other priorities.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CONVERSATION, TRUMP dialed House
Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY to see what “My Kevin” -- his name for the California Republican -- thought. The president and his aides knew what
MCCARTHY thought: He’d be opposed.
MCCARTHY immediately said no, and he and SHELBY got into a heated
conversation over federal spending. MCCARTHY and SHELBY have a bit of bad blood. MCCARTHY fought SHELBY over funding for harbor dredging, and
SHELBY tried to complicate California water projects.
THE CALL LASTED for roughly 20 minutes. When SHELBY returned to the
Capitol, he told reporters that the president was “neutral” on his priority.
MCCARTHY believes TRUMP is on his side. It’s a telling yet familiar episode
about governing in the era of TRUMP. The president revels in stoking rivalries,
and lawmakers are left wondering where he stands. More: Sarah Ferris on Congress’s agenda
STATE OF THE WORLD … AP/ATHENS, GREECE: “Americans prepared to mark a Memorial Day like no other as the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional commemorations, while Greece sought to revive its crucial tourism sector by restoring ferry services to its popular Aegean islands. …
“Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and four other remaining areas on Monday, but said that does not mean the end of the outbreak. He also unveiled a new stimulus package worth about 100 trillion yen ($930 billion) to provide financial support for pandemic-hit companies. That’s on top of an initial, 117 trillion yen package.”
“The report, delivered on the Sunday deadline lawmakers had set for federal health officials to submit a national testing strategy, doubles down on the administration’s stance that individual states, not the federal government, should bear primary responsibility for carrying out diagnostic tests to help curb the pandemic.”
morning: 8:16 a.m.: “HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!” … 8:18 a.m.: “TRANSITION
TO GREATNESS! Get ready, it is already happening again!” … retweet of 11:06
p.m. tweet: “OBAMAGATE” … retweet of another 11:06 p.m. tweet:
“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” … And this image
SOME MEMORIAL DAY fronts: L.A. Times: “REMEMBERING THE
FALLEN” … Sacramento Bee: “Veterans home could close due to
budget cuts” … The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.): “HONORING
THEIR COURAGE” … Chicago Tribune: “They survived wars, died of
virus” … Boston Herald: “SALUTE THE FALLEN” … N.Y. Post:
“Mourning in America” … Columbus Dispatch: “THE FLAG THEY
FOUGHT FOR”
INSIDE THE OVAL, from JOHN BRESNAHAN and JAKE: Sen. RICHARD SHELBY (R-Ala.) -- the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee -- went to see President DONALD TRUMP Tuesday to talk about spending bills for 2021.
SHELBY’S PRIORITY in visiting the White House was to convince the
president to declare the VA Mission Act as emergency spending. The program --
which allows veterans see doctors in their communities rather than the VA -- costs
$12.5 billion or so each year, and declaring it an emergency would remove it from
the budget’s bottom line, thus giving SHELBY additional money to spend on
other priorities.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CONVERSATION, TRUMP dialed House
Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY to see what “My Kevin” -- his name for the California Republican -- thought. The president and his aides knew what
MCCARTHY thought: He’d be opposed.
MCCARTHY immediately said no, and he and SHELBY got into a heated
conversation over federal spending. MCCARTHY and SHELBY have a bit of bad blood. MCCARTHY fought SHELBY over funding for harbor dredging, and
SHELBY tried to complicate California water projects.
THE CALL LASTED for roughly 20 minutes. When SHELBY returned to the
Capitol, he told reporters that the president was “neutral” on his priority.
MCCARTHY believes TRUMP is on his side. It’s a telling yet familiar episode
about governing in the era of TRUMP. The president revels in stoking rivalries,
and lawmakers are left wondering where he stands. More: Sarah Ferris on Congress’s agenda
STATE OF THE WORLD … AP/ATHENS, GREECE: “Americans prepared to mark a Memorial Day like no other as the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional commemorations, while Greece sought to revive its crucial tourism sector by restoring ferry services to its popular Aegean islands. …
“Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and four other remaining areas on Monday, but said that does not mean the end of the outbreak. He also unveiled a new stimulus package worth about 100 trillion yen ($930 billion) to provide financial support for pandemic-hit companies. That’s on top of an initial, 117 trillion yen package.”
“The report, delivered on the Sunday deadline lawmakers had set for federal health officials to submit a national testing strategy, doubles down on the administration’s stance that individual states, not the federal government, should bear primary responsibility for carrying out diagnostic tests to help curb the pandemic.”
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