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US-Mexico tariff talks to resume Thursday after countries fail to reach deal – as it happened

A group of migrants apprehended by Customs and Border Control last month after crossing the border from Mexico.
A group of migrants apprehended by Customs and Border Control last month after crossing the border from Mexico. Photograph: Usbpa Edward Butron El Paso Sect/AFP/Getty Images

Evening summary

Here’s a dispatch from David Agren, our correspondent in Mexico:

Mexico’s foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said talks will continue tomorrow, but that US officials focused more on migration matters than tariffs today. That’s a departure from past years, when US and Mexican officials tried to keep matters like trade, security and migration separate.

“What the US government is looking for are measures in the short-term and medium-term” on migration, Ebrard said. Mexico is promoting a multi-billion dollar development deal for Central America, which president Andrés Manuel López Obrador insists will slow migration, but observers say won’t show results for decades.

Mexico acknowledged the flows of migrants “are growing too much” and can’t continue.

Mexico is desperate to do a deal. The economy has been sluggish and with tariffs, it’s expected to worsen. Two rating agencies worsened their outlook for Mexico today. Another caravan also entered the country and soldiers just stopped it.

President Trump issued a statement via tweet on the US-Mexico talks around tariffs and immigration:

Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs serving her Iraq, took umbrage with the comments that President Trump made regarding the Vietnam War and military service. She responded to his remarks today:

No deal reached in US-Mexico tariff meeting

Greg Gianforte, the Montana congressman who pleaded guilty to body-slamming former Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs the day before the state special election, has reportedly told some of his Republican colleagues that he will be running for governor of Montana in 2020, the Hill is reporting.

President Trump spoke to Piers Morgan this morning at length about climate change and Meghan Markle - but the discussion also had some interesting tidbits about the Vietnam War, a war in which Trump famously got out of serving because he had a physician’s letter stating he suffered from bone spurs in his feet.

Morgan asked if he wished he had served in Vietnam. “Well, I was never a fan of that war, I’ll be honest with you,” Trump answered. “I thought it was a terrible war. I thought it was very far away. At that time, nobody had ever heard of the country.”

When asked whether serving in the military was something he would have liked to have done, Trump said, “I would have been honored, but I think I make up for it right now.

“I think I’m making up for it rapidly because we’re rebuilding our military at a level it’s never seen before,” he said.

Hey all, Vivian Ho taking over for Erin Durkin.

Please make sure to take a moment and read the only politics story you need today: a fearless profile by Matthew Cantor of the dog mayor of a Californian town.

Summary

  • Donald Trump wrapped up a state visit to the UK, where he dismissed the climate crisis as just a change in the weather, and headed for Ireland, where said Brexit will work out very well for the country.
  • New figures showed a growing surge in migrants crossing the US border, and US and Mexican officials sat down for talks over Trump’s threat to put tariffs on the country’s goods if they don’t stem migration. The Trump administration said it is ending recreation, education, and legal aid services at shelters for immigrant youth.
  • Joe Biden reaffirmed his support for the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funds from being used for abortion, drawing criticism from rival presidential candidates and pro-choice groups. Meanwhile, Democratic contenders issued a host of new policy plans: Kirsten Gillibrand on legalizing marijuana, Cory Booker on housing, Beto O’Rourke on voting rights, and Jay Inslee on international climate leadership.

Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski attended the annual fundraising gala for the conservative anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List, HuffPost reports.

The news comes as the Illinois congressman is taking heat from progressives over his status as one of the few Democrats in Congress who oppose abortion rights.

North Carolina’s legislature failed to override a veto by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of a bill that would have made it a crime if doctors and nurses failed to care for an infant delivered during an unsuccessful abortion, per AP.

House homeland security committee chairman Bennie Thompson introduced legislation Wednesday to require the federal government to produce an annual public report on incidents of domestic terrorism.

“Domestic terrorism, fueled largely by a surge in white supremacist extremism, presents a growing threat to the security of our homeland,” Thompson said, according to the Hill.

CNN is suing the FBI to make public documents from Robert Mueller’s investigation.

The network says it sued for access to memos outlining what more than 500 witnesses told Mueller’s investigators about Russian election interference, the role of the Trump campaign, and potential obstruction of justice. The FBI had refused to release them pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.

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Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s other new job is as a contributing editor at the Atlantic. As a Vice editor points out, he wrote an op-ed there headlined “It’s Time to Hold American Elites Accountable for Their Abuses,” two weeks before announcing he was going to work for a Wall Street bank.

Mexico will make its own demands in talks with the US to stave off tariffs, Reuters reports.

The Mexican delegation plans to demand redirecting US security funds to Mexico’s southern border, Mexican sources tell Reuters. They’ll also call for a “Marshall Plan” for Central American countries, to boost development there and discourage migrants from making the trek to Mexico and on to the US.

Mexico will also demand that the US top the flow of weapons and ammunition to criminal cartels. And they are refusing to accept a proposed designation as a “safe third country,” which would require migrants who arrive first in Mexico to apply for asylum there instead of applying in the US.

Trump has threatened 5% tariffs on goods imported by Mexico if the country does not stop immigrants from crossing into the US.

New York Mayor and presidential hopeful Bill de Blasio acknowledges needing to brush up on 19th century literature after an inapt comparison of Joe Biden to Dr. Jekyll (who was the good guy).

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley predicted that tariffs on Mexican goods will never go into effect.

“There’s not going to be any tariffs,” Grassley said, the Associated Press reported. “They got a long list of things they’re going to offer to us, and it will preclude tariffs going into effect.”

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is joining the investment bank Centerview Partners LLC, the Wall Street Journal reports.

He will open a Chicago office for the Wall Street firm and advise clients on merger deals and other matters.

Perhaps surprisingly, several environmental groups have endorsed — or at least aren’t actively opposing — Donald Trump’s latest appointee to the Department of Interior: Robert Wallace as Assistant Secretary of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

The Hill reports that Wallace, a Wyoming native and longtime lobbyist for General Electric, has garnered the support of the The National Park Conservation Association (NPCA), Ducks Unlimited and the National Wildlife Refuge Association, citing their background working with him.

Wallace has spoken before two Senate committees this week on his willingness to ease tensions between the federal government and more local partners.

“Partner is an easy word to say, but a hard word to implement,” he told senators Wednesday. “The federal government always shows up as the alpha, and that’s a model I will work to better equalize.”

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As the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel points out, today’s endorsement of Bill de Blasio by the Hotel Trades Council is only the second union endorsement in the Democratic primary. The firefighters’ union has endorsed Joe Biden.

Some reporting from the endorsement event, which comes after de Blasio’s administration pursued a series of policies helpful to the union:

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Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump in a hypothetical matchup in Texas, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

Biden leads Trump 48% to 44% among voters in the state, which has traditionally voted Republican. Against other top Democrats, Trump comes out a few points on top.

The poll also found that registered Democrats and Democratic leaning voters say by a 60% to 27% margin that former Rep. Beto O’Rourke should challenge Republican incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in 2020 rather than continue his campaign for president.

The Trump administration is allowing a major expansion of hunting and fishing in the nation’s wildlife refuges. The Associated Press reports:

The plan affects 1.4 million acres (5,666 square kilometers) on federal public lands, including 74 national wildlife refuges, U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said at the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge along Lake Erie in northern Ohio.

The proposal would also allow hunting and fishing for the first time at 15 national fish hatcheries.

“It’s a dramatic statement about our commitment to access,” Bernhardt said, adding: “The goal is to get more people out.”...

Among refuges where the expansion is proposed are Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin and Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming, where deer and elk hunting would be allowed for the first time.

Bernhardt said the expansion is the largest proposed by the administration to date.

The plan is to finalize the proposal by September after public comment.

US authorities took more than 144,000 migrants into custody in May, the highest monthly total in 13 years and a jump of a third from the previous month, the Washington Post reports.

“We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: the system is broken,” said acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders.

The figures include 132,887 people apprehended by the Border Patrol after crossing the border illegally and 11,391 who arrived at legal ports of entry and were deemed “inadmissible.”

Donald Trump will speak at the Lincoln Memorial during a July 4 celebration, the Washington Post reports.

He’ll be the first president in recent history to participate in the public celebrations on the National Mall.

Trump wants to refashion the event as “A Salute to America,” according to the Post. Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said he’s welcome to speak but should refrain from divisive rhetoric. “The president can speak at any event that he wants to speak at,” she said. “And my great hope would be that he recognizes that the event is a unifying event that celebrates the birthday of our nation.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Donald Trump is treating Mexico “like an enemy” with his tariff threats.

She accused him of using the plan to distract attention from the controversy over the Mueller investigation, the Hill reported.

She called it “bad policy” and then said that was too kind. “I don’t even think it rises to the level of policy. I think it’s notion-mongering — again,” she said. “And it’s really, well, let’s face what it is: It’s a distraction from the Mueller report. And it served its purpose, right? Here we are, here we are.”

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is jumping in on the criticism of Joe Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal money from being used to pay for abortions.

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House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler said he’s “confident” special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before Congress.

“Let’s just say that I’m confident he’ll come in soon,” Nadler told reporters Wednesday, the Hill reported.

He said the committee will subpoena Mueller “if we have to.”

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy said fellow Republicans should support Donald Trump’s plan for tariffs on Mexican goods.

“End of the day we should support the president so we can get an agreement so we don’t have tariffs. Them talking about not supporting him undercuts his ability to do that,” McCarthy said Wednesday, the Hill reported.

Many Republicans have opposed the tariffs and threatened legislation to block them.

A majority of Americans say they think Donald Trump will win a second term, a new poll found.

In the CNN poll, 54% say their best guess is that Trump will win the 2020 election, while 41% predict he will lose.

The prediction comes despite the fact that on every issue polled other than the economy, more Americans disapprove than approve of Trump’s performance.

Donald Trump said Brexit will “work out very well” for Ireland.

“I think it will all work out very well, and also for you with your wall, your border. I mean, we have a border situation in the United States, and you have one over here. But I hear it’s going to work out very well here,” he said before a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.

The Irish leader made clear he has no interest in a wall like the one Trump wants on the US-Mexico border. “I think one thing we want to avoid, of course, is a wall or border between us,” Varadkar said.

“The way it works now is good,” Trump said of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, a contentious issue in Brexit talks. “I think it should be good. The big thing is going to be your border, and hopefully that’s going to work out, and I think it will work out.”

Updated

Donald Trump said he believes Mexico is prepared to make a deal to avert tariffs.

“Mexico, you know, wants to make a deal,” he told reporters on a trip to Ireland, according to a pool report. “They have their entire delegation right now going over to probably the White House location to negotiate with our people.”

“I think they want to do something. They’re sending their top people,” Trump said.

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The Guardian’s environment correspondent points out some of holes in Donald Trump’s claims today about climate change.

Trump dismissed the crisis as a “change in weather” that “changes both ways” and said the US has “among the cleanest climates there are.”

The US is the world’s second biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, and the highest on a per capita basis. (China is #1 overall).

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Democratic candidates are pushing for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, after former Vice President Joe Biden said he still supports the rule. The amendment bars federal funding from being used for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or a threat to the woman’s life.

“Repealing the Hyde Amendment is critical so that low-income women in particular can have access to the reproductive care they need and deserve,” tweeted New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. “Reproductive rights are human rights, period. They should be nonnegotiable for all Democrats.”

Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke tweeted simply: “Repeal the Hyde Amendment,” along with a video of him advocating for reproductive choice in a town hall.

A Texas teacher has been fired after sending tweets to Donald Trump saying her school district “is loaded with illegal students from Mexico” and pushing for “removing illegals that are in the public school system,” CBS DFW reported.

High school English teacher Georgia Clark told school officials she didn’t understand that her tweets to the president were public, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

The payday lending industry spent $1 million at two annual conferences held at the Trump National Doral hotel outside Miami, ProPublica reports. The Trump administration, meanwhile, is moving to roll back Obama-era regulations on the industry, which would have required lenders to verify that borrowers could afford to pay back their loans while also covering basic living expenses before making a loan.

The Trump administration said Wednesday it is ending medical research by government scientists using human fetal tissue, a victory for abortion foes that comes despite impassioned pleas from scientists that some health problems can’t be studied any other way. The Associated Press reports:

Research using fetal tissue that otherwise would be discarded has been funded by the government, under leadership of both political parties, for decades — and has led to life-saving advances including development of vaccines for rubella and rabies, and drugs for the HIV virus.

Officials said government-sponsored research by universities will be allowed to continue, subject to additional scrutiny.

But ongoing research at the National Institutes of Health involving fetal tissue from elective abortion would not be allowed to proceed.

The policy change won’t affect privately funded research that uses human fetal tissue.

“Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.

But ending its use is a priority for anti-abortion activists, a core element of President Donald Trump’s political base. Trump casts himself as “strongly pro-life,” and his administration has taken many steps to restrict access to abortion, which remains a legal medical procedure. Trump has nominated federal judges who oppose abortion, attempted to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, and expanded legal protection for medical providers who object to abortion.

Defending her reluctance to initiate impeachment proceedings, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stressed that impeachment would not actually mean Donald Trump would be removed from office.

“Do you know that most people think impeachment means you’re out of office?” she said Wednesday, the Washington Post reported. “They think, if you get impeached, you’re gone. And that is completely not true. And I may have thought that myself 50 years ago.”

Under constitutional procedures, the House of Representatives may impeach a president by majority vote. But impeachment is the equivalent of an indictment, not a conviction. The Senate must then hold a trial, and only if the president is convicted by a two-thirds vote will he be removed from office. In recent history, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House but not convicted by the Senate, and he completed his term.

Pelosi has faced growing pressure from members of the Democratic caucus to move on impeachment, but has maintained the divisive proceedings are not worth it.

“Make no mistake, we know exactly what path we’re on,” she said Wednesday, according to the Post. “We know exactly what actions we need to take.”

The Washington Post fact checks Donald Trump’s comments this morning justifying his ban on transgender military service members. In an interview with Piers Morgan on “Good Morning Britain,” Trump said the prohibition is due to prescription drugs used by transgender people during their transition. “You’re in the military, you’re not allowed to take any drugs,” he said.

As the Post notes, this is untrue. Military service members are allowed to take prescription medication. Nor is there any specific prohibition on the hormones commonly used in gender reassignment.

“This statement is incorrect,” said Jane Schacter, an expert on gender and sexuality law at Stanford University. “Many members of the military use prescription medication, and it is made available to them worldwide. Hormone therapy, in particular, is prescribed, including to manage the gynecological needs of non-transgender service members.”

Donald Trump’s top trade adviser Peter Navarro told CNN Wednesday that tariffs against Mexico “may not have to go into effect” if the country gets more aggressive in blocking immigration.

“Right now, the Mexican government makes money off illegal immigration. After the tariffs are put in place, the Mexican government will bear a cost of that. We believe that these tariffs may not have to go into effect precisely because we have the Mexicans’ attention,” he said. “Vice President Pence will be meeting with them today, Secretary of State Pompeo and (US Trade Representative) Robert Lighthizer. I think let’s stay calm and look at the chess board here.”

Vice President Mike Pence will meet Wednesday with top Mexican officials who are seeking to head off the administration’s threatened tariffs, the Hill reports.

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard is representing his country at the talks and expected to argue Mexico is already taking steps to prevent migrants from crossing the US-Mexico border.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Paul Manafort should not be held in solitary confinement, and nor should anyone else. Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chair, is reportedly heading for Rikers Island where he’s likely to be held in solitary while awaiting trial on New York state charges.

Updated

Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee has moved to Wyoming and changed his political affiliation for the fourth time.

The Boston Globe reports that Chafee has registered as a Libertarian. He was once a Republican, and later became an independent and then a Democrat.

Chafee says his views haven’t changed much, but he’s struggled to find a party that fits them. “I bought property in Wyoming and registered to vote out there in my fourth party — I’m a Libertarian,” he told the Globe. “It’s what I’ve always been — fiscally conservative and socially liberal.”

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Planned Parenthood Action Fund executive director Kelley Robinson criticized Joe Biden for his support of the Hyde Amendment:

“To support the Hyde Amendment is to block people – particularly women of color and women with low incomes – from accessing safe, legal abortion. As abortion access is being restricted and pushed out of reach in states around the country, it is unacceptable for a candidate to support policies that further restrict abortion.

“The Democratic Party platform is crystal clear in supporting the right to safe, legal abortion and repealing the Hyde Amendment, a position held by the majority of voters. Supporting Hyde isn’t good policy or politics. We strongly encourage Joe Biden to speak to the people whose lives are impacted by this discriminatory policy and reevaluate his position.”

Senior U.S. and military officials are warning Congress about the potential threat to national security from melting ice in the Arctic, the Associated Press reports:

Officials from the Office of National Intelligence and the Pentagon say climate change will open the Arctic to more ship traffic and commercial activities by Russia and China and create potential sources of conflict.

Peter Kiemel, counselor to the National Intelligence Council, says Russia and China are dramatically increasing their investment there.

Jeff Ringhausen, a Navy official, says that though Arctic shipping is likely to increase, it’ll still amount only to a small portion of overall global shipping.

He says the Russian government is “overly optimistic” regarding the increased shipping and investment in the Arctic.

The witnesses spoke at a hearing on climate change impacts on national security.

Trump administration cancels classes and recreation for immigrant youth

The Trump administration is canceling English classes, legal aid and recreational programs for unaccompanied immigrant minors staying in federal shelters, the Washington Post reports.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is withdrawing federal funding for activities “not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety, including education services, legal services, and recreation,” Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber told the Post.

A lawyer representing immigrant minors vowed to go to court if the cut goes through. A previous federal court ruling mandates education and recreation for minors in federal custody.

There are more than 40,800 unaccompanied children in HHS custody. They are mostly teenagers traveling to the US on their own, but during the Trump administration’s since-reversed family separation policy, also included young children taken from their parents.

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Wisconsin’s state legislature is set to approve several bills to restrict abortion Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. But unlike other states that have recently approved new abortion restrictions, Wisconsin has a Democratic governor, Tony Evers, who has vowed to veto all the measures. And Republicans do not have the votes to override a veto.

A rundown of the bills, via AP:

One bill up for final approve in the state Senate addresses the extremely rare occurrence in which a baby is born alive during an abortion attempt. It would impose criminal penalties on doctors who fail to give medical care to such babies. Organizations representing obstetricians and gynecologists say existing laws already provide protections to every healthy newborn, whether born during a failed abortion or under other circumstances...

Other bills up for approval would cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, prohibit abortions based on the fetus’ race, sex or defects and require providers to tell women seeking abortions using the drug mifepristone that the process may be reversed after the first dose.

CNN has identified five instances where Donald Trump planted false stories about members of the British royal family buying or looking at apartments at his properties, or becoming members of his clubs.

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Another presidential policy plan this morning: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is out with a proposal to legalize marijuana nationwide.

She vows to immediately deschedule marijuana as a federal controlled substance, expunge all non-violent marijuana convictions at the federal level, and establish a national process to make marijuana production and consumption “clean, safe, and sustainable.”

Donald Trump has wrapped up his trip to the UK after D-Day commemorations Wednesday, and boarded Air Force One to fly to Ireland.

He plans to visit the tiny village of Doonbeg, adjacent to his golf course and resort, where many locals consider his business an economic lifeline and he’s not expected to face the kind of protests going on elsewhere in Ireland.

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Bernie Sanders will attend Walmart’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday to advocate for workers’ rights.

The senator and presidential candidate plans to introduce a shareholder resolution that would give hourly employees a seat on the retailer’s board, and push the company to raise wages.

Washington governor Jay Inslee released another climate change plan Wednesday morning, the third proposal to tackle the issue from his climate-focused presidential campaign.

The plan focuses on restoring the United States’ international climate leadership. It calls for rejoining the Paris climate agreement, and then holding bilateral negotiations with major economic powers to develop more ambitious targets than the ones in the original agreement. It also calls for joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance, which is trying to phase out the use of coal for power, and ending the Trump administration’s promotion of US fossil fuel abroad.

Inslee also proposes tariffs on imports from countries that fail to cut carbon emissions. He says the US should include an enforceable emissions standard in trade agreements, and put a “carbon duty” on imports.

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Iowa Rep. Steve King is vowing to fight his way back onto the committees he’s been booted from, Politico reports.

“It was a political lynch mob. I had to let the blood cool,” King told Politico. “And the blood has now cooled, and now they don’t want to be faced with the reality of what they’ve done.”

GOP leaders removed King from his committees over comments suggesting there was nothing wrong with white supremacy, the latest in a history of inflammatory comments. King said the punishment is “something I will not let go of.”

Senator and presidential hopeful Cory Booker proposed a new housing plan Wednesday, calling for a new tax credit for renters.

Under the proposal, anyone paying more than 30% of their income on rent would be eligible for a refundable tax credit. The tax credit would cover the difference between 30% of the person’s income and their rent, capped at the federally determined fair market rent for their neighborhood. An estimated 57 million people could benefit from the credit, with the average family getting $4,800 a year.

Booker is also proposing requiring cities and towns that want certain federal transportation and housing grants to eliminate restrictive zoning rules in order to make it easier to build affordable housing.

The plan calls for a federal fund available to states and cities that guarantee lawyers to tenants facing eviction, as New York City and Booker’s home town of Newark have done.

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke unveiled a sweeping voting rights-based policy plan Tuesday night that promises to ban PAC money from political campaigns, impose term limits on elected officials and Supreme Court justices, and increase voter registration by 50 million by 2024.

The plan is made up of three parts: “Increase participation within our democracy,” “remove barriers within our democracy,” “rebuild confidence in our democracy.”

“If we are to reclaim our democracy, we must draw people back into the political process, expand the franchise, and guarantee that every voice counts,” reads an introduction to the plan, which aims to increase voter turnout to 65% — with 35 million new votes — by 2024.

Under “increasing participation,” O’Rourke proposes a shift to automatic and same-day voter registration, increased youth outreach and term limits of 12 years (six terms) for House reps, 12 years (two terms) for Senators and 18 years for Supreme Court justices.

O’Rourke also proposed making a National Voting Day holiday and introducing legislation to amend the Voting Rights Act, “to make clear that even seemingly race-neutral election regulations are unlawful when they result in disproportionate impact on racial minorities.”

Additionally, O’Rourke’s website outlines plans to provide federal funding to improve election infrastructure, enact legislation to prohibit gerrymandering, eliminate the citizenship question on the US Census, and severely restrict corporate money in politics through banning PAC donations to campaigns.

The Hill reports that O’Rourke will discuss the proposal at a voting rights-themed town hall in Atlanta tonight.

Senators are planning 22 separate resolutions in an attempt to stop US arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the Hill reports.

The bipartisan group introducing the measures includes Senator Lindsey Graham, a usual Donald Trump ally who has broken with the president over his support for Saudi Arabia.

“While I understand that Saudi Arabia is a strategic ally, the behavior of Mohammed bin Salman cannot be ignored,” Graham Wednesday, according to the Hill. “I am also very concerned about the precedent these arms sales would set by having the Administration go around legitimate concerns of the Congress. I expect and look forward to strong bipartisan support for these resolutions of disapproval.”

The Border Patrol has been expanding stops and searches of buses and trains to look for undocumented immigrants, NBC News reports. In an email explaining an end to restrictions on the checks, a Border Patrol official signed off: “Happy hunting, stay safe, and have fun!”

NARAL is condemning Joe Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment. President Ilyse Hogue said:

“There’s no political or ideological excuse for Joe Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment, which translates into discrimination against poor women and women of color plain and simple. His position further endangers women and families already facing enormous hurdles and creates two classes of rights for people in this country, which is inherently undemocratic.

At a time where the fundamental freedoms enshrined in Roe are under attack, the 2020 Democratic field has coalesced around the Party’s core values -- support for abortion rights, and the basic truth that reproductive freedom is fundamental to the pursuit of equality and economic security in this country. Differentiating himself from the field this way will not earn Joe Biden any political points and will bring harm to women who are already most vulnerable.”

Donald Trump weighed in this morning on the allegations that Joe Biden’s campaign plagiarized parts of his climate change plan, but predicted the “Corrupt Media will save him.” (It was news outlets that made public the apparently lifted sentences).

Facing a growing revolt from Republicans opposed to tariffs on Mexico, Donald Trump this morning tweeted what purports to be a statement of support from House minority leader Kevin McCarthy.

Former Vice President Joe Biden still supports the Hyde Amendment, the rule banning the use of federal funds for abortion in most cases, his campaign tells NBC News.

His support for the rule sets him apart from the rest of the Democratic primary field. Biden supports legal abortion, but as NBC reports, has evolved over the years to be more supportive of abortion rights and says he personally opposes the procedure as a devout Catholic.

The Hyde Amendment prohibits using federal funds - including Medicaid - to pay for abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the woman. The four female senators running for president - Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Amy Klobuchar - are co-sponsoring legislation to repeal the amendment. No other Democratic presidential candidate has come out in support of keeping the law.

Donald Trump joined world leaders to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Portsmouth on the final day of his state visit to the UK.

Follow live updates in our UK blog.

Trump and Queen Elizabeth greeted D-Day veterans after the ceremony, hearing their stories and thanking them for their service. Trump also had a brief private chat with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is receiving his first union endorsement in his long shot bid for president.

New York Hotel and Motel Trades is set to formally endorse de Blasio Wednesday afternoon at its New York headquarters, with president Peter Ward to “tout his pro-worker record as New York City mayor,” according to de Blasio’s campaign.

Trump dismisses climate crisis as a "change in weather"

Prince Charles spent the better part of an hour and a half trying to convince Donald Trump that the climate crisis was real, but the president was not sold.

Trump dismissed the warming climate as just a “change in weather” and cast blame on other countries in an interview Wednesday with “Good Morning Britain.”

Pressed by host Piers Morgan on whether he personally believes that climate change is real, Trump said: “I believe there’s a change in weather, and I think it changes both ways.”

Trump, who has previously called climate change a “Chinese hoax,” met for 90 minutes this week with Charles, the Prince of Wales, who has made the climate crisis a signature issue.

“We were going to have a 15 minute chat, and it turned out to be an hour and a half, and he did most of the talking,” Trump said. “He wants to make sure future generations have climate that is good, as opposed to a disaster, and I agree. I did mention a couple of things: I did say, well, the United States right now has among the cleanest climates there are, based on all the statistics, and it’s even gotten better, because I agree with that. I want the best water, the cleanest water, crystal clean air.”

Trump has withdrawn the US from its commitments to reduce emissions in the Paris climate accord and rolled back a host of environmental regulations.

Morgan invited him to say he accepts the fundamental reality that the planet is heating up.

“What people want to hear from you about climate change is that you basically understand that almost every scientists that looks into this believes climate change is a very real and present danger, and if we don’t tackle it now...then we’re going to be in serious trouble. Do you accept that?” the host asked.

Trump wouldn’t go there, instead calling out other countries for polluted air. “Well, you know, you just said it - China, India, Russia, many other nations, they have not very good air, not very good water,” he said. “If you go to certain cities, you can’t even breathe.”

There’s “a chance” the US will take military action against Iran, Donald Trump said Wednesday.

“There is always a chance. Do I want to? No, I’d rather not. But there’s always a chance,” Trump said in an interview with Piers Morgan. “I’d much rather talk.”

Trump also attempted in the interview to clarify his comments saying that Meghan Markle was “nasty.” Told that Markle had called him misogynistic and divisive, Trump said in an interview with the Sun earlier this week: ““I didn’t know that. What can I say? I didn’t know that she was nasty.”

Trump said Wednesday that “nasty” was meant to describe her criticisms, rather than the duchess herself.

“They said some of the things that she said and, it’s actually on tape. And I said, ‘Well, I didn’t know she was nasty.’ I wasn’t referring to she’s nasty. I said she was nasty about me. And, essentially, I didn’t know she was nasty about me,” Trump said in the interview aired Wednesday.

“What she said was nasty based on what they told me,” he added. “She was nasty to me, and that’s OK for her to be nasty. It’s not good for me to be nasty to her, and I wasn’t. And in fact I think she’s doing very well.”

Trump faces growing Republican revolt over Mexico tariffs

Donald Trump is facing a growing revolt from Senate Republicans over his plan to put tariffs on Mexican goods.

Senators told White House officials at a lunch Tuesday that Trump faces a veto-proof majority to overturn the tariffs, Politico reported. Half a dozen GOP senators stood to speak about why tariffs are a bad idea, according to CNN.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer predicted Trump would not follow through with the threatened 5% tariff, and Trump lashed out at him on Twitter.

There’s broad bipartisan opposition in the Senate, Senator Gary Peters told CNBC Wednesday.

“My Republican counterparts are very concerned about these tariffs,” said Peters, the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee.

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