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Situational awareness - July 15, 2020

Good morning from Salt Lake City

Let's Wednesday!

It's Tax Day #2. Don't forget to file your returns if you haven't already.

TICK TOCK

111 Days to the 2020 election (11/3/2020)

189 days to inauguration day (01/20/2021)

194 days to the start of the 2021 Utah Legislature (1/25/2021)

Here are the stories you need to pay attention to this morning:

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RBG

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was hospitalized Tuesday evening for treatment of a possible infection [AP].

That was...something

President Donald Trump turned a hastily called press conference into a political speech attacking Joe Biden and China [NYT].

Coronavirus

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she's willing to delay the scheduled August recess in order to have more time to hammer out another Covid aid package [CNN].

Coronavirus vs. politics

The Trump administration strips the CDC of control of coronavirus data. Instead, hospitals have been ordered to send all patient data to a database in Washington [NYT].

Four former top officials at the CDC criticized President Trump's politicizing of scientific data [WaPo].

The White House let trade adviser Peter Navarro publicly attack Dr. Anthony Fauci in an op-ed after insisting there was no effort to undermine the nation's leading infectious disease expert [CNN].

Uh oh

The federal stockpile of protective equipment for medical professionals may not have the capacity to supply medical officials amid the latest surge of coronavirus [NBC News].

2020 election

Former Sen. Jeff Sessions lost his comeback bid, dropping his Alabama GOP primary to former football coach Tommy Tuberville who was endorsed by President Trump [NYT].

Economy

Big banks are stockpiling billions of dollars in cash to cover bad loans in a sign they expect the economic downturn to worsen [Bloomberg].

The White House unveiled a new ad campaign highlighting alternate ways to start a career targeting the millions of Americans who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic. The effort was quickly bashed on social media for being tone-deaf [AP].

Backing down

The Trump administration dropped their policy change requiring foreign college students to leave the country if their classes were not meeting in person [CNN].

Hmmm...

Kansas GOP Rep. Steve Watkins was charged with three counts of felony voter fraud. He is accused of using a UPS store as his home address to vote in the 2019 municipal election [Politico].

Population

Scientists say the world population will peak at more than 9 billion in 2064, then begin to decline to 8.8 billion in 2100 [Bloomberg].

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1806 - Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis to explore the west.

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.

1870 - Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.

1979 - President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech."

2006 - Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.

Wise Words

"[T]he general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any." James Madison, Federalist 14, 1787

Lighter Side

"Nobody should have to wait four hours to vote. This is an election, not the latest pair of Jordans." Trevor Noah

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