MORNING MESSAGE
In
recent days media organizations have investigated how Trump runs his businesses.
What they found is alarming ... The USA Today investigation found that Trump
stiffs employees and steals wages by refusing to pay for overtime, stealing
tips, and other common wage-theft practices. He also stiffs contractors and
suppliers, negotiating terms and then reneging once work is completed –
sometimes paying nothing ... our government’s employees, contractors and
suppliers would likely fare poorly under a Trump administration.
SANDERS-CliNTON SUMMIT TODAY
Sanders,
Clinton meet today. NYT: “Several people close to the senator, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions, say he will try to
get assurances from Mrs. Clinton that she will fight for many of his campaign
policy proposals, including a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage, a jobs program
tied to repairing the country’s infrastructure, and tuition-free public colleges
and universities.”
Endorsement
eventually expected, reports The Hill: “Many Democrats expect an endorsement
soon after, with Sanders bringing his legion of young, progressive supporters
under the party umbrella … the question remains as to how hard Sanders and his
allies will push [on the platform], knowing that any party instability could
leave the door open for Trump and jeopardize Sanders’s legacy.”
CLINTON, TRUMP DIVERGE ON COUNTERTERROR STRATEGY
Clinton,
Trump deliver dueling speeches after Orlando. W. Post: “‘We cannot contain
this threat. We must defeat it,’ Clinton said before lacing a discussion of her
[counterterrorism] plan with an appeal to reject hatred and division in politics
… ‘The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the
first place was because we allowed his family to come here,’ said Trump…”
Dems
push gun bans for terrorist watch list. The Hill: “Although legislation to
prevent anyone on the terrorism watch list from purchasing a gun was first
proposed by the Justice Department under former President George W. Bush, almost
the entire Senate Republican Conference voted to block it in December … A
nationwide CBS News/New York Times poll published at the beginning of the year
showed that 83 percent of Americans support banning people on terror watch lists
from buying guns.”
Debate
over guns may help Trump. NYT: “…nearly half of white working-class
Democrats think it’s more important to protect gun rights than to control gun
ownership. That’s a larger percentage of Democratic voters than agree with Mr.
Trump on many of the other issues that he stresses on the campaign trail.”
BREAKFAST SIDES
“Minimum
Wage Momentum Continues to Surge” reports The American Prospect: “… the
Washington, D.C., City Council unanimously voted to raise the city’s minimum
wage to $15 by 2020 … , more than 63 percent of [San Diego] voters approved [a
ballot] measure, which will immediately increase the city’s minimum wage to
$10.50, to $11.50 by 2017 … the Cities Association of Santa Clara County … voted
last week in favor of a proposal that would establish a regional $15 minimum
wage across Silicon Valley by 2019 … In Durham, North Carolina, the city council
voted to increase the wage floor for its full-time city employees to $15 an hour
by 2018…”
Speaker
Paul Ryan to propose anti-regulatory package. The Hill: “The GOP regulatory
agenda would give lawmakers more power over regulators and more authority to
reject controversial rules. The plan, to be unveiled Tuesday afternoon as part
of a broader GOP policy agenda, also focuses on eliminating costly and outdated
regulations.”
Debt
Collective’s Ann Larson criticizes WH student debt relief plan, in Politico
oped: “On Monday, the Department of Education released a proposed rule
providing a pathway to debt cancellation for students who were defrauded by a
for-profit college … [It] takes some steps in the right direction, including
forbidding schools from requiring students to sign an arbitration clause before
they enroll … [But] instead of allowing all for-profit college students to
discharge their debt in full, the agency wants to limit discharges for students
who got ‘some value’ from their degrees.”
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