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*Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden: European Leaders Worried Over Trump’s Disrespectful Behavior. <#S1>

• Biden To Deliver Keynote Address At Illinois Democratic County Chairs
Event. <#S2>

• Poll Shows Americans Worried About Future Of US Democracy. <#S3>

• NY Daily News Recounts Right’s Embrace Of Bakery Owner Who Refused Biden
Service. <#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Media Analyses: Travel Ban Ruling A Major Win For Trump. <#S5>

• Azar Blames Parents Who Enter US Illegally For Family Separations. <#S6>

• Trump Again Asks For Wall Funding, But House Bill Appears Headed For
Defeat. <#S7>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Warns Harley-Davidson Not To Take Production Overseas. <#S8>

• Trump Signals CFIUS Could Oversee Chinese Investment In US Tech Firms.
<#S9>

• US Wants Allies To Cease Importing Iranian Oil By November 4. <#S10>

• Helsinki Weighed As Possible Location For Trump-Putin Summit. <#S11>

• Tens Of Thousands Of Syrian Refugees Flee Toward Jordan, Israel. <#S12>

• Pence, Temer Discuss Venezuela. <#S13>

• Trump Awards Posthumous Medal of Honor To WWII Hero. <#S14>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Progressive Ocasio-Cortez Beats NY14 Rep. Crowley In “Shocking” Primary
Upset. <#S15>

• As Trump Casts Waters As “Face” Of Opposition, Democrats Fear Election
Fallout. <#S16>

• Trump Staff Facing Increasing Level Of Threats, Harassment. <#S17>

• House Panel Approves Resolution Directing Rosenstein To Turn Over
Documents. <#S18>

• Notre Dame Students Sue School, Administration Over Birth Control
Coverage. <#S19>

• CBO: Trump Tax Cuts Will Make Debt Situation Worse. <#S20>

• DOJ IG: Women Underrepresented In Key Jobs At Law Enforcement Agencies.
<#S21>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Study: Genetically Modified Polio Virus Improves Survival Of Glioblastoma
Patients. <#S22>

• Women With Dense Breasts Have Higher Recall, Biopsy Rates, Bigger Tumors.
<#S23>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S24>

• Washington Post. <#S25>
Biden in the News
Biden: European Leaders Worried Over Trump’s Disrespectful Behavior.

In his Washington Post
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(6/26) column, Josh Rogin writes that according to former Vice President
Joe Biden, “European leaders see President Trump as increasingly
unpredictable, antagonistic and disrespectful, both in public and private,
and that is having a devastating effect on the US-European relationship and
the transatlantic alliance.” Speaking with Rogin, Biden said of Trump, “The
things that are the most debilitating from the perspective of most of the
Europeans is the way he conducts himself when he is with allies. Several of
them have said to me the degree of disrespect shown is debilitating.” Biden
was “referring to how Trump has publicly attacked several European allied
leaders, including British Prime Minister Theresa May and particularly
German Chancellor Angela Merkel.” Said Biden, “Several of them have spoken
to me about what was referred to as his gratuitous criticism of Merkel, who
is in a tough spot already.”

In a broadcast this morning, MSNBC’s First Look[image: Image
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(6/27) reports that Biden “is speaking out about President Trump’s hostile
relationship to several of America’s closest allies. In an interview on the
sidelines of a summit in Copenhagen, Biden told ‘The Washington Post,’
quote, ‘The things that are the most debilitating from the perspective of
most of the Europeans is the way he conducts himself when he is with the
allies. Several of them have said to me that the degree of disrespect shown
is debilitating, has a profound impact on what our European friends think
he thinks about them. The consequence is disastrous for our national
security and our economic interests.’”

Drawing from Rogin’s column, The Hill
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(6/26, Manchester) similarly quoted Biden, who “made the comments at the at
the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, which was attended by various western
leaders, including Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen and former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair.”

*In Interview, Biden Quips, “I’m Not Looking To Live In The White
House.” *Politico
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(6/26, Nelson) said that Biden “joked that he is ‘not looking to live in
the White House’ in [the] interview” with Rogin, “hinting at a hesitance
toward running for president in 2020 without closing the door on a bid.”
Biden is quoted as telling Rogin, “I’m not looking to live in the White
House, I’ve seen it up close. But all kidding aside, I don’t know what I’m
going to do.” Breitbart
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(6/26, Caplan) reported that Biden, referring to US-EU relations in the
Trump era, told Rogin, “It makes me feel guilty about not wanting to [run
for president]. But it doesn’t make me want to.”
Biden To Deliver Keynote Address At Illinois Democratic County Chairs Event.

The Springfield (IL) State Journal-Register
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(6/26) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden “will be the keynote
speaker for the Illinois Democratic County Chairmen’s Association brunch
set for Aug. 16 at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield.” The event, “which is
always held in conjunction with Democrat Day at the Illinois State Fair,
will begin at 8 a.m.” Sen. Dick Durbin (D), who “helped secure this
summer’s appearance,” is quoted as saying, “Joe Biden was my Senate
colleague and remains my good friend. When I asked him to headline the
largest gathering of the year of Illinois Democrats, he didn’t hesitate to
say yes.” WAND-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Champaign (IL)'s News at 10PM (6/26) reported that Biden “is coming to
reinforce momentum for” billionaire businessman J.B. Pritzker (D), who is
challenging Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) in this fall’s gubernatorial race.
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Springfield, IL (6/26) also reported on Biden’s slated visit.
Poll Shows Americans Worried About Future Of US Democracy.

James Hohmann reported on the website of the Washington Post
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(6/26, Hohmann) about “the sobering results of a major bipartisan poll
published Tuesday that was commissioned by the George W. Bush Institute,
the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center and Freedom House” –
organizations that “have partnered to create the Democracy Project, with
the goal of monitoring the health of the American system.” According to the
poll, 50 percent “of Americans think the” US “is in ‘real danger of
becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.’ A majority, 55 percent,
see democracy as ‘weak’ – and 68 percent believe it is ‘getting weaker.’
Eight in 10 Americans say they are either ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ concerned
about the condition of democracy” in the US. Former Vice President Joe
Biden “said the results show ‘we can’t take our freedoms for granted – we
have to work for them, and we have to defend them.’”

Newsweek
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(6/26, LeBlanc) further quoted Biden as saying of the poll results, “It’s
also a reminder that our democracy has never been perfect, and we can’t be
complacent if we hope to continue to lead in the 21st century.’” The University
of Pennsylvania
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(6/26) quoted Biden as saying, “By identifying key challenges, we can keep
working – Democrats and Republicans, together – to strengthen and reinforce
the values that form the foundations of our democracy.”
NY Daily News Recounts Right’s Embrace Of Bakery Owner Who Refused Biden
Service.

In the wake of the controversy over the owner of a Virginia restaurant
asking White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her dinner
party to leave the establishment, the New York Daily News
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(6/26, Schladebeck) recounts how “the owner of a cookie shop” in Radford,
Virginia “turned down the opportunity to serve Vice President Joe Biden in
2012 – and the right embraced him as their small business hero.” Chris
McMurray, then-owner of Crumb and Get It, told a local TV station at the
time, “I have a difference of opinion of the folks in that campaign, that’s
what it was. Also, taking a stance for my faith, my faith in God.”
Leading the News
Media Analyses: Travel Ban Ruling A Major Win For Trump.

Media reports are casting yesterday’s Supreme Court decision
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upholding the Administration’s travel ban as a major victory for President
Trump – one that also tells conservatives that he made a good choice when
he nominated Justice Neil Gorsuch. In addition, reports and analyses state
that the court has likely emboldened the President to utilize his executive
power to curtail illegal immigration. The tone of much of the analysis and
editorial commentary, however, was mostly critical of the substance of
Trump’s order.

All three major network newscasts covered the story last night. NBC
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(6/26, story 2, 2:15, Alexander) said Trump was “reveling in a rare
judicial win, but on Capital Hill,” Democrats bashed “the decision as
disappointing.” Sen. Mazie Hirono was shown saying, “Who’s going to be
next? Is the President going to issue an Executive Order against Mexicans?”
Meanwhile, “Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress, warning the ruling
should make all Americans nervous.” Ellison was shown saying, “What they’ve
said is, as long as the President invokes national security, he has carte
blanche to do whatever he wants to anybody.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(6/26, lead story, 2:45, Williams) led its broadcast reporting that “after
a year and a half of confusion, chaos at US airports for those caught up in
the first travel ban, repeated smack downs in the lower courts and
revisions from the White House, the court said this latest one can stand.”

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(6/26, lead story, 3:20, Crawford) referred to “a large legal victory” for
Trump, and showed him saying, “A tremendous success. A tremendous victory
for the American people. ... The ruling shows that all of the attacks from
the media and the Democrat politicians are wrong, and they turned out to be
very wrong.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/26, story 4, 3:55, Muir) spoke of a “major victory for...Trump,” and
added (Moran) that “within minutes of the ruling” Trump “was tweeting
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victory: ‘Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban. Wow!’”

The Hill
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(6/26, Fabian) reports that “during a meeting with Republican lawmakers,”
Trump called the decision “an affirmation of his hard-line immigration
policies.” Said Trump, “We have to be tough and we have to be safe and we
have to be secure. ... At a minimum, we have to make sure that we vet
people coming into the country, that we know who is coming in, we know
where they are coming from. We just have to know who’s coming here.”
Breitbart
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(6/26, Spiering) notes Trump also said, “This ruling is also a moment of
profound vindication following months of hysterical commentary from the
media and Democratic politicians who refuse to do what it takes to secure
our border and our country.” Politico
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(6/26, Nussbaum) says that “it was just five days ago that...Trump
committed a rare act of buckling to public pressure,” but yesterday “he
declared ‘profound vindication’ on his larger hardline approach to
immigration.”

The New York Times
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(6/26, Liptak, Shear) notes that after the ruling was released, Trump
“vowed to continue fighting for a wall across the Mexican border,” and
Bloomberg
News
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(6/26, Stohr) says the ruling “bolsters the president’s already broad
control over the nation’s borders,” while the Washington Post
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(6/26, Rucker) quotes him as saying, “We have to be tough, and we have to
be safe, and we have to be secure. At a minimum, we have to make sure that
we vet people coming into the country.”

The AP
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(6/26, Sherman) refers to “a big victory for Trump in the court’s first
substantive ruling on one of his administration’s policies,” and as “the
latest demonstration of a newly invigorated conservative majority.” The AP
notes that Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion, said the
ban is “well within US presidents’ considerable authority over immigration
and responsibility for keeping the nation safe.” However, Roberts also
wrote, “We express no view on the soundness of the policy.” The Washington
Post
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(6/26, Barnes, Marimow) says Roberts “tried to play down the political
aspects of the case,” and said presidential authority to ensure national
security “has not been undermined by ‘this President’s words.’”

Nevertheless, Reuters
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(6/26, Hurley) calls the ruling “one of the biggest victories of [Trump’s]
presidency” that “ended a fierce fight in the courts over whether the
policy amounted to an unlawful Muslim ban, while also confirming broad
presidential powers over immigration and national security policy.” Reuters
adds that because Roberts’ ruling “affirmed broad presidential discretion
over who is allowed to enter the United States,” Trump “could potentially
add more countries to the ban.” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/26, Savage) calls the ruling “a major victory for Trump...as well as an
implicit rebuke to the judges on the East and West coasts who repeatedly
issued nationwide orders to block the travel ban.” USA Today
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(6/26, Wolf) notes “the 5-4 ruling reverses a series of lower court
decisions that had struck down the ban as illegal or
unconstitutional.” The Wall
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(6/26, Kendall, Bravin) runs a similar report, while Politico
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(6/26, Gerstein, Hesson) sees “a major victory” for Trump, The Federalist
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(6/26, Stotzfoos) “a big win to the administration on a key campaign
promise,” and Townhall
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(6/26, Pavlich) a “huge win.”

White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah, asked on CNN’s
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(6/26) about Trump’s claim that he preferred the original travel ban which
“was struck down because it targeted Muslim countries,” said that an
“activist court in the Ninth Circuit struck down and passed a preliminary
injunction against the first order. And then there was a second order and
that was more narrowly tailored. We did that in order to implement the
President’s executive order and comply with some of the court’s concerns.
... I think the point here is that the differences between the two are
rather on the margins. The overall point here is that in the interest of
protecting America’s national security and the interest of ensuring safe
travel globally, the President has the authority and the right within the
Constitution to raise minimum standards that every country must abide by.”

The Washington Times
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(6/26, Dinan) also reports that “the court refused to hold Mr. Trump’s
tweets and other campaign-era anti-Muslim comments against him now that
he’s in office, saying judges usually take the president’s actions on their
face.” They “ruled the travel ban was facially neutral, not the ‘Muslim
ban’ his critics had said.” Wrote Robert, “The text says nothing about
religion.” Jim Acosta pointed out on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(6/26) story that Roberts “says the ban is squarely within the scope of
presidential authority,” but Justice Sonia “Sotomayor wrote, ‘The majority
here completely sets aside the president’s charged statements about Muslims
as irrelevant.” She added that upholding the ban “erodes the principles of
religious tolerance that the court elsewhere has protected, and tells
members of minority religions in our country that they are outsiders and
not full members of the political community.” CQ Roll Call
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(6/26, Ruger) also reports “the decision prompted a cutting dissent
from...Sotomayor, who wrote that the majority ignored facts, misconstrued
legal precedent, and turned a blind eye to the pain and suffering of
countless families and individuals.”

The AP
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(6/26, Karoub) reports “Muslim individuals and groups, as well as other
religious and civil rights organizations, expressed outrage and
disappointment,” while the Washington Post
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(6/26, Hauslohner) says the “decision...added permanence to the sentiment
among many American Muslims that the government views and treats them
differently from other Americans.” USA Today
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(6/26, King) says “the ruling stoked more polarization on Capitol Hill –
and much of America – where partisan tensions run deep,” and the Washington
Post
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(6/26, Marimow) that “outrage over the decision was immediately palpable
after the ruling among protesters who gathered outside the court and loudly
chanted: ‘No ban, no wall.’” Omar Jadwat, “an attorney with the ACLU, which
helped bring one of the travel ban challenges, said in a statement the
decision ‘will go down in history as one of the Supreme Court’s great
failures.’” However, “there were congratulations within the Trump
administration and among Republicans on Capitol Hill,” and Attorney General
Sessions “celebrated the ruling as a ‘great victory for the safety and
security of all Americans.’”

The Washington Times
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(6/26, Swoyer) reports “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to
take a victory lap,” and Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Stohr) that he “implicitly took credit for the decision” by tweeting
a picture of himself shaking Gorsuch’s hand “moments after the court
released the ruling.” Bloomberg mentions that Gorsuch’s confirmation “was
possible only because the Kentucky Republican blocked former President
Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill a vacancy in 2016.”
The New York Times
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(6/26, Dias, Ember) indicates that “what many partisans on both sides
agreed on...was that Justice Gorsuch – who voted with the 5-to-4 majorities
in both cases – was an especially key figure in Tuesday’s decisions,
because he wouldn’t have been on the court if Mr. Obama had been successful
with the original nomination of Judge Garland.”

*Democratic Lawmakers Criticize Decision. *John Roberts reported on Fox
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(6/26) that in the Cabinet room with GOP lawmakers, Trump had “praise” for
the Supreme Court’s decision, but Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking member of
the Judiciary Committee, said that “history will not be kind to this
president’s policies or the Supreme Court justices who lent their names to
this troubling ruling.”

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(6/26) that the Supreme Court “abandoned its constitutional responsibility
to look at the animus, that improper motivation that was so obvious in
those statements” that Trump made during his campaign.

Rep. Eric Swalwell was asked on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(6/26) if the Supreme Court made the right call. Swalwell said, “No, they
didn’t. This is the United States of America. Our President is calling for
a ban on Muslims entering our country and our country was conceived around
the idea of religious freedom. And so I think this issue certainly is one
that needed precision to make sure we have security as refugees come to our
country and like many policies, the President is bringing a wrecking ball.”
When asked about the Administration’s argument that “most Muslim countries
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“I’ll go to the President’s own words as a candidate, that he wanted a
total and complete ban on Muslims.”

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(6/26), “I think it was a shameful decision. I think that the Supreme Court
had a chance to stand up to the President’s religious discrimination and
instead, affirmed it. I think...that years from now, the Congress and the
American people will look back on it with regret.” Castro likened the ban
to “the Chinese Exclusion Act, which kept Chinese from coming to this
country for 60 years until in the early 1940s.”

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(6/26) that as a candidate, Trump “said he wanted a complete and total
shutdown of Muslim entry into the country. He didn’t get the complete and
total shutdown, but he got something and he is celebrating that fact right
now and that is sad because our country stands for religious freedom and
liberty. We don’t hold people’s religious faith as a factor when we decide
whether they can come to our country or not. At least we shouldn’t. The
Supreme Court said they could for now, but I don’t believe that that ruling
will stand the test of time because none of the other bigoted rulings that
I’ve seen in the course of American history have stood the test of time.”

*More Commentary. *The New York Times
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(6/26) writes in an editorial, “So what can be said in this moment? Perhaps
this – that Mr. Trump’s travel ban is of a piece with the man himself. We
may not be able to look into the president’s soul, but we can look at his
words and actions over the last half century,” when “white racial fear has
always been at the core of” his “worldview. What’s so dangerous about
Tuesday’s ruling is that the Supreme Court has now implicitly blessed his
use of this strategy as a political organizing tool and as a governing
philosophy.”

The Washington Post
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(6/26) editorializes that “Trump has not been vindicated,” because “he has
been enabled to save face after a series of defeats in the lower courts and
in the court of aroused public opinion.” The Post adds that “though still
on the books and still inflicting arbitrary harm on would-be entrants to
the United States, as Justice Stephen G. Breyer noted in a thoughtful
dissent, the Trump policy was forced to change; checks and balances did
operate to that extent. ... These days, hope itself is a kind of victory.”

USA Today
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(6/26) editorializes that “the 5-4 ruling doesn’t absolve President Donald
Trump from a responsibility to use this power wisely and humanely going
forward,” though “unfortunately, there’s scant evidence that he’ll do so.”
However, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton writes in a dissenting USA Today
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(6/26) op-ed, “As a nation of laws and not men, we must hold fast to this
truth: The power the president has does not depend on who the president is.
I congratulate the Supreme Court for reminding the political class of that
reality.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(6/26) writes in an editorial that the ruling simply upheld precedent about
presidential power – and that the court’s majority protected it from
passions sparked by hatred of Trump.

Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post
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(6/26), however, that “Roberts has validated religious discrimination. And
his fig leaf of facial neutrality won’t stand up in the court of history.”

Leah Litman, an assistant professor of law at the University of
California, Irvine, writes in the New York Times
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(6/26), “The court’s decision to uphold the entry ban illustrates how
immigration has become a ‘Constitution-lite’ zone, and the Trump
administration’s recent policies prove why that’s not just a bad idea – it
can be a horrific one.”

Peter H. Schuck, an emeritus professor of law at Yale, writes in
the New York Times
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(6/26) that “the risk and temptation of presidents to use their power to
overreach and ignore principles of justice is a constant threat to our
democracy.” Moreover, “although Mr. Trump poses this threat most brazenly
and in the extreme, it is by no means confined to him. Indeed, his
precedent will embolden his successors.”

*Upholding Travel Ban, SCOTUS Also Overturns 1944 Decision Allowing
Japanese Internment Camps. *Politico
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(6/26, Gerstein) reports “the Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday
upholding...Trump’s travel ban policy produced one unexpected result: the
formal repudiation of an infamous 74-year-old precedent upholding the
forcible transfer of Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World
War II.” Such an “extraordinary step by the court’s five
Republican-appointed justices appears to have been triggered by two liberal
justices’ upbraiding the majority for echoing a ruling widely seen as a
failure to confront a racist policy implemented under the guise of a
national security threat.” USA Today
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(6/26, Locker) reports that “dissenters of Tuesday’s [travel ban] ruling
compared the support for the travel ban to Korematsu, as Justice Sonia
Sotomayor said the decision ‘invoked an ill-defined national security
threat to justify an exclusionary policy of sweeping proportion.’” Chief
Justice Roberts “disagreed and overruled Korematsu as he also upheld the
travel ban.” The New York Times
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(6/26, Savage), among other news outlets, also reports the story.

*Appeals Court Gives Administration Temporary Win On Sanctuary
Policy. *Politico
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(6/26, Hesson) reports that a federal appeals court on Tuesday “temporarily
narrowed the scope of a nationwide injunction” against the Administration’s
attempt to withhold funding from so-called sanctuary cities. The Seventh US
Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request from Attorney General Sessions
“to stay the nationwide aspect of the injunction, so that it will apply
only to the plaintiff, the city of Chicago, pending further consideration.”
Politico says the decision “amounts to a victory for President Donald
Trump.”
Azar Blames Parents Who Enter US Illegally For Family Separations.

The AP
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(6/26, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports that “the number of migrant children in
custody after being separated from their parents barely dropped since last
week, even as Trump administration said it’s doing everything possible to
expedite family reunification.” On Tuesday, HHS Secretary Azar “told
senators at a hearing...that his agency currently has 2,047 migrant
children – or six fewer than the total HHS count last week” – and
“suggested at one point that parents share the blame.” Said Azar, “It’s not
a desirable situation to have children separated from their parents.
Listen, to be upfront, if the parents didn’t bring them across illegally
this would never happen.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(6/26, story 2, 2:55, Glor) reported that Democrats “pressed him on
reunification.” Sen. Ron Wyden: “The American people have been getting lots
of deception, lots of rosy answers, not many facts. So how many parents do
not have access? How many parents have been told where their kids are?”
Azar: “That information is available for every parent.”

NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/26, story 3, 2:30, Holt) showed Azar saying, “There’s no reason why any
parent would not know where their child is located. I sat on the ORR
portal, and with just a few basic key strokes within seconds could find any
child in our care for any parent.” ABC (Gutierrez) asked Fernando Garcia,
executive director of the Border Network For Human Rights, “How easy is it
for these migrants to hop on the computer?” Garcia said, “We’re talking
about people coming from rural communities in Mexico or in Guatemala and
Central America. Many of them they don’t have computers, they don’t know
how they work.”

The Washington Post
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(6/26, Itkowitz) reports Azar also “told the Senate Finance Committee that
if lawmakers find a legislative fix to a court ruling that bars children
from being held in detention centers for longer than 20 days, then the
families could be reunited immediately. Otherwise, he said, those children
will need to wait for their parents to be either granted entry to the
United States or deported.” Said Azar, “I cannot reunite them, though,
while the parents are in custody because of the court order that doesn’t
allow the kids to be with their parents for more than 20 days. We need
Congress to fix that.” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/26, Wire) says the remarks provide “the clearest statement to date of
administration policy and confirmed what immigrant advocates have feared:
The only way parents can quickly be reunited with their children is to drop
their claims for asylum in the United States and agree to be deported.”

The New York Times
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(6/26, Davis, Kaplan, Pear) reports White House spokesman Raj Shah
“conceded that the process of reuniting families would be difficult.” Shad
told CNN[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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in an interview, “This is a complex situation. Our goal is to fully reunite
as many families as possible, as quickly as possible.”

Rep. Joaquin Castro said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(6/26), “Congress needs to play a big role in making sure that HHS and the
other federal agencies provide us a full list that accounts for every child
and parent separated so we can audit that list and account for every single
person on that list and make sure that they are reunified. They need to
submit this to Congress under penalty of perjury.”

The Washington Post
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(6/26, Rozsa), meanwhile, profiles one family separated at the border in
May.

*Judge Orders Administration To Reunite Families. *Politico
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(6/26, Gerstein) reports that a federal judge has ordered the federal
government on Tuesday night to reunite migrant parents with children taken
from them under the Administration’s family separation policy. US District
Court Judge Dana Sabraw, based in San Diego, issued “a preliminary
injunction on Tuesday night requiring that nearly all children younger than
5 be returned to their parents within 14 days and that older children be
returned within 30 days.”

*Seventeen States, DC Sue To Stop Family Separations. *The Washington
Times
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(6/26, Dinan) reports 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit
Tuesday “asking a judge to step in and officially put an end to family
separations at the border.” The 17 states and the District of Columbia say
the Administration is “violating illegal immigrants’ due process rights and
breaking asylum laws by separating and failing to quickly reunite families.
And the states say President Trump’s executive order last week ending new
family separations doesn’t go far enough.” The suit filed Tuesday in
Washington state joins other cases already filed in California, Washington,
DC, and elsewhere over the separations. Politico
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(6/26, Gerstein) reports the suit filed Tuesday is led by Washington state
Attorney General Bob Ferguson, “who painted it as part of a broader
campaign to resist Trump administration initiatives.” Said Ferguson, “This
case, like all our cases against this Administration, says something
important about who we are as a people. We will stand up for the
Constitution, basic decency and fundamental American values.”

*Immigrant Advocates: Administration’s Arguments For Separations
Not Back By Data. *UCLA law professor Ingrid Eagly, Steven Shafer of the
Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project in Los Angeles, and Jana Whalley of the
National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles write in a Washington Post
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(6/26, Eagly, Shafer, Whalley) op-ed that the Administration last week
“backed down from its cruel policy of separating children from their
parents at the US border with Mexico,” but “our findings, published this
month in the California Law Review, counter the two central arguments cited
by the Trump administration in favor of detaining families. First, the
administration claims that families arriving at the border have ‘exploited’
the asylum law and are not legitimate asylum seekers. Our data show
otherwise.” The Administration, they say, also “makes a broader claim about
detained immigrants, arguing that those released from detention will not
show up for their court dates. Our study of asylum cases found the
opposite.” They conclude by urging the Administration to end its detention
of families.

*Pence, Nielsen To Meet With Central American Leaders Later This
Week. *Reuters
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(6/26, Rampton) reports that Vice President Pence and DHS Secretary Nielsen
will travel to Central America this week “to discuss the immigration issue
on the US southern border with the presidents of Guatemala and Honduras and
the vice president of El Salvador.” The Washington Times
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(6/26, Dinan) reports Pence is scheduled to be in Guatemala to meet with
victims of a volcano eruption there earlier this month, “but the visit has
now turned into an immigration-centric meeting.” The Washington Post
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(6/26, Sonmez) reports that while traveling Tuesday in Brazil, Pence
“issued a stern warning about immigration...calling on Latin American
countries to respect US borders.” Said Pence, “To all the nations of the
region, let me say with great respect, that just as the United States
respects your borders and your sovereignty, we insist that you respect
ours. ... Don’t risk your lives or the lives of your children by trying to
come to the United States on the road run by drug smugglers and human
traffickers. If you can’t come legally, don’t come at all.”

*Politico: Miller Serving As Trump’s “Immigration Czar.” *Politico
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(6/26, Johnson) reports that for the past two months, “a handful of
immigration hawks from across the government have assembled in Stephen
Miller’s West Wing office on a weekly basis to chart the course of the
Trump administration’s immigration policy.” Led by Miller, whom Politico
calls the “architect” of Trump’s “hard-line approach to immigration, the
meetings have replaced the usual interagency process involving key agency
officials and remained largely out of view to the rest of the
administration.” But without “an organized policy and communications
strategy integrating the input of key agencies, senior administration
officials have been caught unaware by major policy announcements, and
confusion has ensued about how to carry them out, according to
administration officials.”

*Thiessen: Democrats Giving Trump The Upper Hand On
Immigration. *Washington
Post
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(6/26) columnist Marc Thiessen writes that “Democrats just can’t help
themselves. They were winning the battle over family separations at the
southern border. ... But then, Democrats blew it – and gave the president
the upper hand once again. First, they went overboard in their attacks on
Trump, with some playing the Hitler card.” Then, Thiessen writes, Sen.
Dianne Feinstein introduced “disastrous legislation – now co-sponsored by
every Democratic senator – that would not simply end family separations but
also actually expand the policy of ‘catch and release.’” He argues that “in
their rush to exploit the border crisis, Senate Democrats have managed to
take an issue that was toxic for Republicans and turn it into a calamity
for themselves.”
Trump Again Asks For Wall Funding, But House Bill Appears Headed For Defeat.

Reuters
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(6/26) reports that at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump said “he
will ask Congress for an increase in funding for his proposed wall along
the border with Mexico so it can be finished quickly,” and predicted that
Republicans will “make border security a centerpiece of their campaigns
ahead of congressional elections in November.” The Washington Examiner
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(6/26, Morrongiello) says Trump “pressured Republican lawmakers in a
Tuesday meeting at the White House to complete his request for additional
border wall funding in the ‘next couple months.’” Said Trump, “We’re
discussing today the funding of the wall, which we very much need. We
started the wall and we’re spending a lot of energy and time. We’re going
to ask for an increase in wall spending so we can finish it quicker.”

According to the New York Post
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(6/26, Fredericks), Trump said he intends to ask for more than $1.6 billion
to complete the wall. Said Trump, “We’re spending $1.6 billion now,”
referring to money included in a spending bill he signed in March. “There
is a plan for another $1.6 billion, but I’d like to ask this room if we can
increase it. I think in light of what’s happened with the drugs, with the
human smuggling, with all of the problems, we have to have the wall. We
have to have the wall,” he added. Trump tweeted
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on Tuesday night, “The Democrats are in Turmoil! Open Borders and unchecked
Crime a certain way to lose elections. Republicans are for Strong Borders,
NO Crime! A BIG NIGHT!”

The AP
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(6/26, Mascaro, Fram), meanwhile, reports House Speaker Ryan has “scheduled
a long-awaited showdown vote on a broad Republican immigration bill for
Wednesday, but is showing little confidence that the package will survive.”
Ryan also “declined to answer questions Tuesday about a separate, narrow
measure Republicans are privately discussing,” which “would focus on...the
Trump administration’s separation of migrant children from their parents
when families are caught crossing the border without authorization.”
According to the AP, “many conservatives are preparing to vote against the
wider ranging bill because it would provide a chance for citizenship for
many immigrants who arrived illegally in the US as children.”

The Washington Times
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(6/26, Dinan) reports that as Republicans “struggled Tuesday to corral
support for their compromise immigration bill” ahead Wednesday’s vote in
the House, “many members [are] already anticipating a defeat and planning a
quick pivot to the family separation issue.” According to Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Edgerton, Litvan, Wasson), “The new version includes a requirement
for employers to electronically check the immigration status of workers and
overhauls a guest worker program for agriculture.” However, while Bloomberg
says “these additions appear to have won over even some immigration
hardliners,” some “other conservatives, including Freedom Caucus co-founder
Jim Jordan of Ohio, dug in Wednesday saying they will oppose the revamped
bill and predicting it will fail.” Reuters
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(6/26, Cowan) reports that “several House conservatives left a closed-door
meeting of Republicans early on Tuesday expressing discontent with the
broad bill.”

The Washington Post
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(6/26, Debonis, Sullivan) reports that “top Democratic congressional
leaders” also said Tuesday that “concerns about holding migrant families in
detention indefinitely make it unlikely that they would back a Republican
effort to fix the separation crisis.” The Post says the “lack of support
dimmed prospects for any quick legislative action before lawmakers leave
Washington for their week-long Fourth of July recess.” The New York Times
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(6/26, Stolberg) reports that with the House vote Wednesday “all but
certain to fail,” an “unlikely” partnership between Sens. Ted Cruz and
Dianne Feinstein is leading “the Senate’s effort to address family
separation at the border.” Cruz and Feinstein are joined in their talks by
Senate Minority Whip Durbin and Sen. Thom Tillis, who described Monday
evening talks as “the opening conversation,” and said there are “clear
differences on a few fundamentals.”

*GOP Leaders Propose Surge In Low-Skilled Guest Workers. *The
Washington
Times
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(6/26, Dinan) reports GOP leaders “added a massive infusion of low-skilled
foreign workers to their immigration bill Tuesday, hoping to win over
reluctant Republicans with business-friendly provisions.” The number of
low-skilled seasonal workers “will be allowed to triple under the new
plan,” which also includes “a new guest-worker program for agriculture
workers, hoping to appease farmers who fear they’ll lose their current,
heavily illegal, workforce under the other provisions of the GOP’s
compromise immigration bill.”

*Trump Reiterates Call For Denying Due Process To Immigrants Who
Enter US Illegally. *Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Sink, Talev) reports the President also on Tuesday “elaborated on a
proposal he first made on Sunday, when he said in a tweet that immigrants
apprehended after illegally crossing the border shouldn’t be allowed to see
immigration judges before they’re deported.” Said Trump, “It’s so simple:
It’s called, ‘I’m sorry, you can’t come in.’ You don’t have to see a judge
where the judge is going to take three years.”

Joe Davidson of the Washington Post
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(6/26) says the Sunday tweet about deporting people who “invade our Country
… with no Judges or Court Cases” was “an ominous message that displayed a
dangerous ignorance about the nation he leads. The despots Trump praises
don’t bother with due process niceties. When the issue is immigration,
Trump wants to follow their lead.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Warns Harley-Davidson Not To Take Production Overseas.

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another
country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at
them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end – they
surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like
never before!” Trump also wrote
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“Early this year Harley-Davidson said they would move much of their plant
operations in Kansas City to Thailand. That was long before Tariffs were
announced. Hence, they were just using Tariffs/Trade War as an excuse.
Shows how unbalanced & unfair trade is, but we will fix it ...
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When I had Harley-Davidson officials over to the White House, I chided them
about tariffs in other countries, like India, being too high. Companies are
now coming back to America. Harley must know that they won’t be able to
sell back into U.S. without paying a big tax! ...
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We are finishing our study of Tariffs on cars from the E.U. in that they
have long taken advantage of the U.S. in the form of Trade Barriers and
Tariffs. In the end it will all even out – and it won’t take very long!”

The Washington Times
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(6/26, Boyer) notes Trump later told reporters “he is ‘doing the right
thing’ by imposing tariffs on certain foreign imports, despite
Harley-Davidson’s announcement.” Trump said of Haley’s plans, “I don’t like
that, because I’ve been very good to Harley-Davidson. ... I think the
people that ride Harleys are not happy with Harley-Davidson. And I wouldn’t
be either.”

Reports on Trump’s tweets and comments were largely unfavorable,
casting them as “threats” to Harley-Davidson. The AP
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(6/26, Superville) also disputes a central Trump claim, reporting that
while “Trump tweeted that Harley-Davidson had already announced it was
closing a Kansas City plant and moving those jobs to Thailand...it was
union officials representing workers at that plant who claimed the jobs
were being shifted to Thailand.” Harley-Davidson “has denied a link between
Kansas City and Thailand.” Another AP
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(6/26, Karnowski) dispatch also asserts that “the president tweeted
incorrectly that Harley was shifting its operations in Missouri to
Thailand,” when in fact “Harley has said previously that a long-term goal
is to expand its international business and that it faces excess capacity
in the US, where sales of the iconic American brand have declined as its
core market has aged.”

In a piece for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(6/26), Christian Schneider writes that “Trump continues to act as if he
were a strongman in a socialist regime, with powers to unilaterally harm
businesses that don’t pledge fealty to his economic plans.” Reuters
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(6/26, Chiacu) says, meanwhile, that Trump “threatened” Harley-Davidson
“with higher taxes,” though it “was unclear what taxes Trump was referring
to, and why the company might have to pay them, since it will maintain
production in the United States for US customers.” The New York Times
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(6/26, Rappeport) also says Trump was “threatening” Harley-Davidson “with
steep punitive taxes,” and the Washington Post
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(6/26, Paletta) that he “threatened the iconic motorcycle company...with
severe taxes and predicted a public revolt that he said would eventually
put the 115-year-old firm out of business.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(6/26, Ballhaus) offers a similar analysis under the headline “Trump Steps
Up Threats Against Harley-Davidson,” while to Yahoo! News
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(6/26, Stableford), Trump “continued to fume” yesterday, and to Politico
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(6/26, Murray), he “declared war on Harley-Davidson.” Politico adds that
“so far, many Harley lovers aren’t willing to pick sides in the brewing
battle.” Ted Richardson, “a member of the North Georgia Mountain Riders
group who owns a Harley,” said yesterday, “I am 100 percent behind the
president and behind Harley-Davidson.” Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Sink, Coppola, Dopp) notes that “the high-profile spat pits the
president against one of the best-known manufacturers in Wisconsin,” which
Trump “won...by a narrow margin of just over 22,000 votes in 2016.”

The New York Post
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(6/26, Moore) reports Harley made its decision after the EU “-- in
retaliation for Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum – imposed penalties
on American motorcycles.” The EU tariffs “went into effect Friday,
increasing the cost of a US-made motorcycle by $2,200.” The Hill
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(6/26, Greenwood) also says “tariffs on the motorcycles were among several
trade measures threatened by the EU after the Trump administration
announced the steel and aluminum tariffs last month.”

*Harley Decision On Thai Plant Came In Response To Trump Withdrawal
From TPP. *Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Coppola) reports, however, that Harley-Davidson “made the decision
to build the new Thailand factory to supply markets in Southeast Asia when
it was clear the US would abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” and that
“in a separate move linked to shrinking sales in the US and having too much
production capacity for its domestic market, Harley announced in January a
plan to shutter its plant in Kansas City, eliminating 260 jobs.” Along
those lines, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(6/26, Barrett) indicates “Harley plans to open a motorcycle assembly plant
in Thailand this year, as the tariff on motorcycles assembled in the US is
about 60 percent in Thailand, according to the company.” Harley already
“has assembly plants in India and Brazil. The company’s Street-model
motorcycles are made in India for Italy, Spain and Portugal.”

CNBC
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(6/26) also reports “the company announced in May 2017 it would build a
plant in Thailand to better reach the southeast Asian market,” and that CEO
Matt Levatich said “in April he made the decision after...Trump withdrew
the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”

*Trump, Kushner To Attend Groundbreaking Ceremony For “Massive”
Foxconn Project. *The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(6/26, Glauber, Romell, Nelson) reports Trump “is coming to Wisconsin to
officiate at Thursday’s ceremonial groundbreaking for the massive Foxconn
Technology Group project in Racine County – and to put his personal stamp
on his vision of an American manufacturing revival.” The “$10 billion
Foxconn project, aided by more than $4 billion in inducements from state
and local governments, is both a big deal and a great gamble.” It is “a
transaction that Trump championed and Republican Gov. Scott Walker forged
in negotiations with the Taiwan-based manufacturer of flat-screen panels.”

The Washington Examiner
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(6/26, Bedard) reports, meanwhile, that “fresh from a whirlwind peace
mission through the Middle East, the administration’s top deal maker, Jared
Kushner, is heading to Wisconsin...with...Trump to celebrate the biggest
jobs deal of his young White House career.” The Examiner adds “Trump will
likely be the focus of the event,” but “it will also be a crowning moment
for Kushner who helped negotiate the deal.”

*Ryan: Trump Tariffs Are “Basically Taxes.” *The Hill
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(6/26, Wong) reports Speaker Ryan “criticized...Trump’s tariffs as
‘basically taxes’ on Tuesday, a day after Harley-Davidson said it would
begin manufacturing some motorcycles overseas to avoid retaliatory tariffs
from the European Union.” Said Ryan, “I think tariffs are basically taxes.
... What ends up happening is you get escalating tariffs and end up raising
taxes.”

*Walker Avoids Direct Criticism Of Trump. *The AP
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(6/26, Bauer) reports Gov. Walker’s “full-throttled love of Harley-Davidson
motorcycles has been intertwined with his rising political career, but now
he must navigate revved up criticism of the Milwaukee-based company
from...Trump.” Walker “has avoided directly criticizing Trump on the issue,
repeatedly saying instead that no tariffs would be good for Wisconsin
manufacturers and farmers.” Said Walker spokeswoman Amy Hasenberg,
“Governor Walker believes there should be no tariffs or trade barriers as
the President stated earlier this month at the G7 summit. ... When there’s
a level playing field, American workers and businesses win.”

*EU “Increasingly Convinced” It’s Winning Trade Spat With
Trump. *Politico
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(6/26, Barigazzi) reports that “Brussels is increasingly convinced that its
retaliation measures...are bearing fruit.” EU trade chief Cecilia Malmström
said yesterday, “There are no [trade] talks planned.” She added
“Harley-Davidson’s relocation decision was exactly the type of reaction
Europe had been aiming for with its counter-tariffs,” saying, “Of course,
the consequences are that the American companies… will react and they will
put pressure on the American administration to say ‘Hey, hold on a minute.
This is not good for the American economy.’ And that’s what’s happening.”
Moreover, “French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said Europe was ready for
Round Two if Trump really wanted it.”

*WPost Editorial Says Trump’s Response To Harley Shows “His
Authoritarian Instincts.” *The Washington Post
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(6/26) editorializes that it is “weeks such as these, in which a president
displays his authoritarian instincts, that prove the wisdom and importance
of the checks and balances the framers designed.” To the Post, “the
Harley-Davidson episode is a simple lesson of the many, easily foreseen
costs of ripping up trade agreements,” and Trump’s “authoritarian reaction
– to bluster and bully companies into doing what the leader demands in the
face of his irrational economic management – will not change the sharp
financial realities Mr. Trump is imposing on companies across the country.”
Adds the Post, “It used to be a core Republican principle that the
government should not dictate where companies invest. ... The framers of
the Constitution gave lawmakers the power to rein in the executive on such
matters; they should use it.”

*Trump Defends Recent Tariff Moves. *The Washington Examiner
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(6/26, Nelson) reports Trump on Tuesday “stood firmly behind his recent
decisions to apply tariffs to foreign goods, despite an increasing number
of retaliatory import taxes on US goods, saying that non-public
negotiations are promising.” Trump told reporters at the White House,
“Other countries are negotiating and without tariffs, you could never do
that. And if they don’t want to negotiate, then we’ll do the tariffs. Just
remember, we’re the bank. We’re the bank that everybody wants to steal from
and plunder.” Trump “said there were promising trade negotiations,” but the
Examiner said “his precise messaging fluctuated.” Said Trump, “Every
country — any country that you can mention has been extremely nice, l