WTF Just Happened Today

Your essential guide to the daily shock and awe in national politics.

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Day 904: Not a good one.


1/ At least 18 babies under the age of two – "including nine infants under the age of one" – were separated from their parents at the border and "kept apart for 20 days to half a year," according to a report by the House Oversight Committee. The r...


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 July 12, 2019  3m
 
 

Day 903: Collateral damage.


1/ The Trump administration is scheduled to begin coordinated raids to arrest at least 2,000 immigrants who have been ordered deported. The raids – scheduled to begin on Sunday after initially being postponed in part to resistance at Immigration a...


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 July 12, 2019  5m
 
 

Day 902: A worthwhile cause.


1/ Migrant children at an overcrowded detention facility in Arizona reported being sexually assaulted and retaliated against by agents for protesting, according to dozens of first-hand accounts collected by government case managers. An officer put...


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 July 11, 2019  7m
 
 

Day 901: Radiating insecurity.


1/ A federal judge rejected a Trump administration request to assign a new legal team to a lawsuit that blocked the addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman called the request "patently deficient" a...


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 July 10, 2019  5m
 
 

Day 900: Pathways.


1/ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill allowing congressional committees to access Trump's New York state tax returns. The bill requires state tax officials to release the state returns for any "specified and legitimate legislative purpose" o...


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 July 9, 2019  5m
 
 

Day 895: Moving forward.


1/ A report from the Department of Homeland Security's independent watchdog found the squalid conditions at migrant detention camps were more widespread than initially revealed. The report describes standing-room-only cells, children without acces...


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 July 3, 2019  4m
 
 

Day 894: Surreal.


1/ House Democrats sued for Trump's tax returns, challenging the administration's refusal to comply with a subpoena for the records. The Ways and Means Committee accused the Trump administration of "an extraordinary attack on the authority of Cong...


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 July 3, 2019  4m
 
 

Day 893: Unforeseen.


1/ A federal judge ordered Customs and Border Patrol to let health experts into detention facilities holding migrant children in order to assess the children's needs and ensure the facilities are "safe and sanitary." The order includes all CBP fac...


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 July 2, 2019  5m
 
 

Day 890: Reluctantly.


1/ The House passed a $4.6 billion emergency spending bill for the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. The 305-to-102 vote sends the legislation, passed by the Senate earlier in the week, to Trump, who is expected to sign it. Speaker Na...


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 June 29, 2019  3m
 
 

Day 889: Contrived.


1/ The Supreme Court blocked the citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census. The court found that while the Department of Commerce had a right to reinstate the question, the administration provided a "contrived" justification for doi...


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 June 28, 2019  4m