Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The visuals from the House floor were quite striking: “House Democrats on Tuesday used what is typically among the dullest of congressional rituals to hammer Republicans for keeping the chamber out of session with the deadline to avert a government shutdown only hours away.”
* I look forward to learning how this will work: “President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his administration has reached a deal with Pfizer for it to voluntarily sell its drugs at lower prices to Medicaid patients. As part of the deal, Trump said, Pfizer will sell some of its drugs on a new ‘direct to consumer’ website called ‘TrumpRx.’”
* In the Atlantic: “Authorities in the Bahamas closed most schools on Monday as Imelda dropped heavy rain in the northern Caribbean, including over Cuba, where two people died as a result of the storm. The storm, which strengthened to a Category 1 Hurricane on Tuesday morning, was located about 690 miles west-southwest of Bermuda.”
* What we’re learning about the attack in Michigan seems quite different from what Donald Trump said about it: “The former Marine accused of killing four people in a fiery attack on a Michigan church held a deep grudge against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to two lifelong friends and other people who knew him.”
* Pritzker’s right: “Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker denounced the Trump administration’s deployment of armed Border Patrol and immigration officers, some wearing masks, in Chicago and other parts of the state at a news conference Monday. He called the moves ‘authoritarianism’ and an attack on Americans.”
* The administration’s multifaceted war on Harvard: “The Health and Human Services Department on Monday started the process for blocking Harvard University from receiving future research grants, three months after finding that the university violated civil rights law by failing to address the harassment of Jewish students on campus.”
* As a Miami native, I find it extraordinary to see the lengths local and state officials are willing to go for Trump: “Gov. Ron DeSantis and other top elected Republican state officials donated a prime state-owned property in downtown Miami on Tuesday to the nonprofit raising money for President Trump’s presidential library. Some estimates say that the property, facing Biscayne Bay, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It belonged to Miami Dade College until last week, when the college’s trustees voted without any discussion to convey it to the state.”
See you tomorrow.
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
