Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of eighty-one. Sunrise is 6:38 AM and sunset 6:58 PM, for 12h 20m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 83.7% of its visible disk illuminated.Today is the one thousand forty-fourth day.
Whitewater’s Community Involvement & Cable TV Commission meets at 5 PM.
On this day in 1793, President Washington presides over the laying of the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol in the building’s southeast corner.
Recommended for reading in full:
Bruce Murphy writes Bradley Foundation Works to Kill Food Aid:
The Trump administration has proposed a plan to slash food benefits for many Americans who now get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits. An estimated 18 percent of recipients or 3.6 million people could lose the food assistance, including as many as 63,000 in Wisconsin.
The Trump administration says this will close a “loophole” that allows too many people to get the aid. “But proponents of the current system say it helps low-income families who work but have huge child care, housing and other expenses that leave them with insufficient money to buy food,” as NPR has reported.
Where did the idea for this change come from? A bland sounding group called the Foundation for Government Accountability has been instrumental in pushing the idea.
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“In December, the Foundation for Government Accountability hosted public officials from across the country in Orlando. The scene: Walt Disney World’s Swan and Dolphin Resort, an ocean-themed oasis with palatial fountains next to a lake lined with palm trees.
Tory Newmyer writes Trump says a big China deal could come ‘maybe soon.’ That’s unlikely:
President Trump on Tuesday warned the Chinese not to wait until after the 2020 election to strike a trade deal. But the two sides remain far apart on key issues, and the possibility of a breakthrough this year remains remote.
That’s the candid assessment of three people close to the talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide me their unvarnished views of the state of play between the world’s two largest economies. In short, these people agreed, the two sides still have miles to go to resolve U.S. demands for major, structural change in how the Chinese government manages its economy.
And for the time being, with the Chinese economy showing signs of stress, Trump appears to feel no urgency to forge anything the administration would tout as a comprehensive agreement.
“I think there’ll be a deal maybe soon, maybe before the election, or one day after the election,” Trump said yesterday. “And if it’s after the election, it’ll be a deal like you’ve never seen, it’ll be the greatest deal ever and China knows that.” Trump said he told Chinese leaders: “If it’s after the election, it’s going to be far worse than what it is right now.”
(Emphasis in original.)