In an extraordinary movement to counteract Redistribution of Republican Districts in Texasdozens of democrats in the State representatives He went to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum so that the Republican party advances with those efforts.
The approximately 30 Democrats are expected to remain for the week in a negotiated plan with the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, who met with the Caucus of Texas at the end of last month and has ordered his personnel to provide logistical support for his stay.
“We are going to Texas to fight for the Texans,” said Gene Wu, president of the Democratic Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives, in a statement. “We will not allow disaster relief to be hostage of a Trump Gerrymander. We are not leaving our responsibilities; we are coming out in a manipulated system that refuses to listen to the people we represent. As of today, this corrupt special session is over.”
Last week, Texas Republicans published a map of the proposed congress that would give the Republican party a way to collect five seats in the middle of the period next year. President Donald Trump’s followed Public pressure for a new map In the state while working to retain a majority in Congress in what is historically a difficult year for the match that celebrates the White House.
The proposed map would change the lines of the district so that the current Democratic members of Congress in Austin, Dallas and Houston would be directed, as well as two Democrats already in danger of extinction representing districts of southern Texas that Trump took last year.
Gotea food in Gaza, but not enough to stop a famine, they say help groups
Humanitarian organizations say that the amount of help that has entered Gaza From Israel he said that he would pause military action in some areas It is insufficient to stop a growing number of Palestinians who die from hunger.
Israel has allowed only a limited amount of help to enter the enclave, since it raised a total block this year. Most of the aid has been distributed by the group backed by Israel known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and other humanitarian organizations have said that Israeli restrictions have hindered their efforts to distribute help.
“This is not an adequate response,” said Jeanette Bailey, leader of the Global Committee of the International Rescue Committee, in a telephone interview.
A gradual help “here or there,” he said, “it will not be adequate to prevent us from entering a full -fledged hambruna where they go a lot, up.”
- Hamas caused protests in Israel during the weekend when Released video that appears to show a visib visibly emaciated along with images of demacred Palestinian babies.
Meet the press
White House Advisor Kevin Hassett President Donald Trump’s President Trump to shoot The commissioner of the Office of Labor Statistics, Erika Mtntarfer, as well as Trump’s statement that the weakest jobs reports were “manipulated”, but failed to produce any evidence to support the claim.
Hassett said in “Meet The Press” of NBC News that installing Trump’s “own people” will help make reports of more “transparent and reliable” jobs in the future.
“What we need is a new set of eyes on the BLS,” said Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, to moderator Kristen Welker.
Several Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, He questioned the shot.
“We have to look for objective statistics somewhere. When people who provide statistics are fired, make it much harder to issue judgments that, you already know, statistics will not be politicized,” Paul told NBC News on Friday.
Meanwhile, Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, accused Trump of trying to “arm” labor statistics for his own agenda. Padilla said the Senate would evaluate the “independence” of a new BLS commissioner when the time is to confirm a new one.
“When [Trump’s] Trying to arm the office of labor statistics, that tells him a lot about his insecurity about the economy and the state of economic issues, ”Padilla told Welker.
Politics shortly
- Investigated: Federal officials are Investigating former special lawyer Jack Smith After the prominent Republicans claimed their investigations on the then presidential candidate Donald Trump amounted to an illegal political activity.
- Confirmed: The Senate voted to confirm The former presenter and Fox News, Jeanine Pirro, as the United States prosecutor for Washington, DC, in a vote of the 50-45 party line.
- In a break: As the members of the Congress prepare to return home for the summer break, the Republicans will seek to sell the unpopular “great and beautiful bill” in their states of origin, while the Democrats They are working on their big brand problem.
- City Warning Sale: The New York Mayor’s candidate team Zohran Mamdani expect to avoid false steps From the progressive mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson, since he works to win in November.
- Accused again? The National Museum of American History of Smithsonian Once again will mention Trump In an exhibition on presidential courts after the elimination of a poster that indicates that its two judgments of the Senate caused concerns.
It is a good time to be a nostalgic millennium
Backstreet Boys are playing for exhausted crowds.
Lindsay Lohan stars in a new “Freaky friday” movie.
And the former co -star and former “Dawson’s Creek” Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson were recently seen filming a new project in New York City.
No, it is not in the early 2000s, but Millennials feel they are so back.
A recent increase in Pop culture focused on the millennium serves as “the next level of escapism” for an uncertain generation, said Kate Kennedy, author of “One in a millennial: on Fathidsing, sentences, fangartls and fitting.”
“It returns us to a time when our greatest concern was to queue for a CD, not if we could pay a house,” Kennedy said.
“I think we are a more lonely and isolated generation as adults than we once anticipated that we would be in our youth,” he said, he added that millennials “two very different epochs extend in terms of technology and information.”
Notable appointment
I cannot be doing this forever, just waiting for dust to settle and that things are normal again, I need a job.
Adam Mitchell, 23, unemployed
The recent university graduates seeking work are discovering that practical titles, work experience and even connections are There is no rival for slow hiring – With a gloomy labor market, ghost employers and a “black hole” in which 1,000 applications can fall without response.
In case you have lost it
- In the midst of ongoing human hunt, the authorities warned that Michael Paul Brown, the suspect accused of killing four people on Friday at a bar in Montana, I could return to the city of AnacondaWhere the shooting occurred.
- Officials in Tennessee He found 14 improvised explosive devices in a man’s house while they arrested him last week under suspicion of threatening officials.
- A record crowd of 91,032 for a major league baseball game of the regular season came to see all the POMP and Pageandry with the MLB Speedway Classic Before the rain eliminated the game itself on Saturday. The game resumed on Sunday, with the Braves of Atlanta beating Cincinnati 4-2.
- Two men described as “associates” of the suspect in A quadruple homicide in Tennessee They have been arrested on suspicion of helping the fugitive.
- Yu Zidi, a 12 -year -old Chinese swimmer, It has become a global sensation With their history times, even when observers and fans return home are warned against athlete overload.
- Ukraine anti -corpos bodies say They have discovered an important graft scheme That acquired military drones and signal interference systems at inflated prices.
- The current 100 -meter world champion Sha’Carri Richardson was arrested About accusations that she assaulted her boyfriend at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
- Joan Anderson, the woman who presented Hula Hoop to the United States and gave her an iconic name, He died last month at age 101.
