MORNING MESSAGE
High
on decibels, low on policy details and devoid of anything new, Donald Trump’s
latest immigration speech was still a lurid reminder of why he must not become
president. It was a chilling speech, in the sense that watching someone fling
chum at a school of sharks is chilling. It was designed to whip his hardest of
hard-core supporters into enough of a frenzy that they would forget how he spent
the past week flirting with softening his hard-line immigration
stance...
TRUMP LAUNCHES FRESH ATTACK ON IMMIGRANTS
Trump
recommits to deporting undocumented immigrants. CNN: “The Republican
presidential nominee on Wednesday re-upped the harsh immigration rhetoric ..
vowing ‘no amnesty’ … promising to build a ‘beautiful’ and ‘impenetrable’ border
wall that Mexico would pay for — hours after that country’s president vowed that
it wouldn’t … Trump did not give a definitive answer about what he would do with
most of the 11 million undocumented people who are not criminals [but] vowed to
create a ‘deportation task force’ [and said] immigrants living in the US
illegally would never have a path to legal status.”
Last
straw for some Latino Republicans. Politico: “Jacob Monty, a member of
Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, has resigned, and Alfonso Aguilar,
the president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, said in an
interview that he is ‘inclined’ to pull his support … [Said Monty,] ‘What I
heard today was not realistic and not compassionate.'”
Trump’s
speech fact-challenged. W. Post: “Trump falsely says Clinton’s plan will
provide Social Security to illegal immigrants … no serious research supports
Trumps claim [the number of undocumented immigrants] could be as high as 30
million … the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants do not fit Trump’s
description of aggravated felons…”
“Mexican
president disputes Trump over border wall payment discussion” reports CNN:
“‘Who pays for the wall? We didn’t discuss,’ Trump had said when asked by a
reporter during a news conference following their meeting in Mexico City … But
Peña Nieto later claimed the two had discussed the wall and who would pay for it
— and he had ‘made it clear’ to Trump it wouldn’t be Mexico.”
Clinton
campaign airs ads in AZ. Politico: “While Democrats have in recent years
argued that Arizona, like Georgia, would be a prime target for them before long
thanks to its demographic shifts, an actual television investment there from a
presidential candidate is a rare move.”
ASIAN LEADERS NERVOUS ABOUT TPP PROSPECTS
Obama
hopes to convince Asian allies he can win TPP approval at G20 Summit. NYT:
“Mr. Obama will most likely find himself educating Asian leaders in the fine
points of the lame-duck session … Many Asian leaders believe that Mrs. Clinton
would happily carry out the T.P.P. if it were approved before her inauguration,
as do some members of the Obama administration. Others believe she will reverse
her position if a few elements of the pact are tweaked. But as she has dug in
her heels, such a reversal is harder to contemplate.”
Buzzfeed
investigation into ISDS finds America threatened: “‘We have a 100% success
rate defending cases against the United States,’ the [US] trade representative
said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. That is true. But the untold story of the
US government’s frenetic response to [a] Mississippi dispute belies this public
bravado and shows that this unblemished record is largely a function of
luck.”
CALIFORNIA ENDS LEGISLATIVE SESSION WITH CLIMATE WINS
California
legislative approves deal to expand cap-and-trade program. LAT: “[The bill
will] free up hundreds of millions of dollars from the state’s cap-and-trade
program to fund green projects … nearly two-thirds of $1.4 billion that has been
raised but was tied up … It comes not long after they inked an ambitious plan to
combat climate change by extending and expanding California’s targets to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions … The spending proposal is tilted toward urban areas
and low-income communities, marking a win for lawmakers who argued their poorer
constituents were being left out of the largesse…”
California
also reaffirms commitment to high-speed rail. LAT: “In the last few hours
before the end of session, lawmakers passed a measure to advance the California
bullet train project. Voters approved nearly $10 billion in bonds for the
high-speed rail project in 2008, but it has since stalled. The bill passed
Wednesday would clarify wording in the 2008 measure and allow some of the money
for the project to upgrade existing rail lines.”
Obama
touts climate record at Lake Tahoe Summit. The Hill: “Obama said that major
investments in clean energy like those in the Recovery Act, along with carbon
rules for cars, trucks and power plants, have reduced the costs of clean energy,
created jobs and reduced energy bills … Obama used the speech to roll out a
series of climate and conservation measures for the American West, focused on
reducing wildfires, getting the private sector to help with conservation and
restoring California’s troubled Salton Sea.”
CONSERVATIVE OBAMACARE HOLDOUTS HURT THEMSELVES
New
HHS report shows how states that refuse Medicaid expansion increase their own
premiums. OurFuture.org’s LeeAnn Hall: “…marketplace premiums are
substantially higher in states that failed to expand Medicaid – about 7 percent
higher … [And] there’s been a clear negative impact on hospitals in
non-expanding states.”
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