Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of eighty-six. Sunrise is 5:28 AM and sunset 8:32 PM, for 15h 03m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89% of its visible disk illuminated.Today is the nine hundred seventy-seventh day.
On this day in 1787, Congress under the Articles of Confederation passes the Northwest Ordinance, creating “the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between British North America and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south. The upper Mississippi River formed the territory’s western boundary.”
Recommended for reading in full:
Molly Beck and Mary Spicuzza report President Trump in Milwaukee says farmers are ‘over the hump’ as dairy farms continue to close in Wisconsin:
President Donald Trump raised $3 million in Wisconsin cash on Friday touring Milwaukee to promote a new trade deal he says will help rebuild the country’s wounded manufacturing and agriculture industry.
But in doing so, the president downplayed the suffocation felt by Wisconsin dairy farmers because of Trump’s own tariffs.
“These are great American patriots … the farmers (said) no, it’s not like things are perfect but we’re with our president,” Trump told a crowd at Derco Aerospace on Milwaukee’s northwest side. “Some of the farmers are doing well … We’re over the hump. We’re doing really well.”
Trump said the new trade agreement would help Wisconsin dairy farmers by providing access to Canada’s market, painting an optimistic picture of the Wisconsin industry’s future — which is losing almost two dairy farms a day.
Nearly 700 Wisconsin farms were shut down last year by owners used to enduring a brutal workload and hard times, calling it quits in a downturn now headed into its fifth year. In 2018, for the third straight year, Wisconsin led the nation in farm bankruptcies.
Peter Jamison and Juliet Eilperin report Trump’s Fourth of July event and weekend protests bankrupted D.C. security fund, mayor say:
President Trump’s overhauled Fourth of July celebration cost the D.C. government about $1.7 million, an amount that — combined with police expenses for demonstrations through the weekend — has bankrupted a special fund used to protect the nation’s capital from terrorist threats and provide security at events such as rallies and state funerals.
In a letter to the president Tuesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) warned that the fund has been depleted and is estimated to be running a $6 million deficit when the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30. The mayor also noted that the account was never reimbursed for $7.3 million in expenses from Trump’s 2017 inauguration.
[Read the mayor’s letter to the president here]
Bowser requested that the White House fully reimburse the fund. Without that money, city officials say, Washingtonians will be put in the unprecedented position of funding federal security needs with local tax dollars.