Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be snowy with a high of thirty-three. Sunrise is 6:54 AM and sunset 5:23 PM, for 10h 28m 09s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 45.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the eight hundred twenty-fifth day.
Whitewater’s Community Involvement and Cable TV Commission lists a 5:00 PM meeting. (Update: canceled due to weather.)
Abraham Lincoln is born on this day in 1809.
Recommended for reading in full:
Eli Rosenberg reports ‘No crisis exists’: El Paso officials tell Trump to stop the falsehoods about their border city:
At a news conference Monday afternoon, Rep. Veronica Escobar (D), who represents the city in Congress, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego, District Attorney Jaime Esparza, and Commissioner Carlos Leon said Trump’s statements threatened to damage the town’s reputation.
“We’ve worked so hard to have the image of a solid community,” said Samaniego, who noted that his family emigrated to the country in 1911. “Every one of us is touched with the falsehoods that are taking place.”
Trump had made the city a centerpiece of his push for a border wall during the State of the Union address last week, saying that its fence, which was constructed between 2008 and 2010, had reduced violent crime and made El Paso one of the “safest cities in our country.” He repeated the claims during his campaign rally in the city on Monday night.
But Trump’s claims were false. The city’s violent crime peaked in 1993 before declining sharply throughout the 1990s, in line with national trends, and long before the city’s fence was approved by Congress in 2006.
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“Donald Trump has continuously made inaccurate claims about the United States’ southern border, including El Paso,” the [municipal] resolution said, noting that data from Customs and Border Protection showed that “no crisis exists” on the border, despite Trump’s claims. “The County of El Paso is disillusioned by President Trump’s lies regarding the border and our community, and though it is difficult to welcome him to El Paso while he continues to proliferate such untruths, we do welcome him to meet with local officials to become properly informed about our great and safe region.”
Philip Bump writes Trump’s days of hard work generally begin at 11 a.m. — even in a busy week:
It’s hard to gauge how much work Trump does during his executive time, because it is unscheduled and mostly unrecorded, even within the broader White House.
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All of this is by design, allowing Trump to make claims about how much he works by masking his leisure time under the rubric of “executive time.” We can’t say with certainty that Trump isn’t having important phone calls with foreign leaders for hours on end before heading down to the Oval Office each day, so we’re asked to assume that he is.
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