On Tuesday the Trump Administration announced they will divert $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs.
The Trump Administration made a truce on their trade war with allies by meeting with the president of the EU at the White House. They are going to stop tariffs and resume the same talks of a trade pact that were underway during the Obama Administration.
Here is a list of prominent Republicans who slammed the plan on the same day.
Tuesday night Cohen released an audio recording of a phone call with Trump about paying off McDougal. Cohen’s lawyer said Cohen is “on a new path — it’s a reset button to tell the truth and to let the chips fall where they may.”
After threatening to impeach Rosenstein, conservative House members pulled back on their threat to force the entire House to vote. Only 11 GOP congressmen supported the measure.
Despite the fact that Trump tweeted this week that Russia would interfere in the 2018 elections to help democrats, the first evidence of actual Russian interference surfaced: they were trying to hack Claire McCaskill’s emails.
There was some bad polling for Tump, especially in swing states he won or nearly won. Jamelle Bouy attempts to state the obvious: that Trump is unpopular and the GOP is in real political danger. He captures the essence of the times: the fact that few believed he would win in 2016 is keeping many from accepting the reality of his unpopularity in 2018.
Here is a good 538 analysis of the polls through the lens of the child separation policy: Trump’s poll numbers remained relatively steady during the weeks when the policy was heavy in the news.
Child Separation Policy
Of the 2,551 separated children: 879 have been reunited; 917 not eligible for reunification; 130 parents waived reunification; 463 parents have already been deported.
Thursday was the court imposed deadline for the government to reunite all children ages 5-17 who were separated form their parents at the border. The government numbers were: 1442 children have been reunited; 771 have not; 378 have been released but not all with their parents; 431 children have parents who have already left the US; 900 parents who will be reunited have already received deportation orders.
By Friday 1820 children were either reunited or placed with relatives; 650 were still ineligible, 431 because the parents have already been deported. Judge Sabraw said the next step is to reunite those families.
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Trump’s Job Approval: 41.3%