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Situational awareness - December 27, 2018

Good Thursday morning from Salt Lake City.

Executive summary: Partial government shutdown enters day 6. The top-10 Utah political stories from 2018. Trump makes a surprise visit to troops Iraq, but mistakenly revealed the identity of a covert military group.

TICK TOCK

32 days until the first day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (1/28/2019)
77 days until the final day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (3/14/2019)
128 days to the Utah State Republican Party Organizing Convention (5/4/2019)
158 days until the municipal election filing period opens (6/3/2019)
162 days until the municipal election filing period ends (6/7/2019)
229 days to the 2019 Utah primary elections (8/13/2019)
313 days to the 2019 municipal elections (11/5/2019)
403 days to the 2020 Iowa Caucuses (2/3/2020)
677 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)

Today At Utah Policy

The top-10 Utah political stories from 2018
By Bob Bernick, Contributing Editor
What do you think the top political story in Utah was in 2018?...Give us your 'fearless predictions' for 2019
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
As the calendar is about to turn to 2019, give us your "fearless predictions" for what you think will happen in Utah politics next year....Top USTAR moments of 2018
By Brian Somers, USTAR Managing Director
2018 was a busy year for Utah's deep science and technology sectors, full of new funding rounds, technology commercialization milestones, and other achievements for Utah's innovation community....

OTHER UTAH HEADLINES

Deseret News

Editorial: Better rehab services for drug offenders is a win-win

Utah to ring in new year with toughest DUI law in the country

State agreement protecting Salt Lake City from Olympic losses on fast track for 2019 Legislature

Salt Lake Tribune

State moves to expand, preserve eastern Utah's Tabby wildlife area, but it could cost $41 million

Meet the seven new women - five Democrats and two Republicans - who will join the Utah Legislature in January

Utah's senators and Delta Air Lines say cheating by far-away Qatar Airways is hurting U.S. carriers

NATIONAL HEADLINES

The partial government shutdown heads into day 6. Congress returns to Washington on Thursday to try and find the votes to end the impasse over President Trump's demand for funding to build his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border - https://nyti.ms/2EOAQAv
Federal workers are beginning to panic that they won't be able to pay their bills - https://nyti.ms/2EPzZj5
President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone during his presidency - https://reut.rs/2EMH2ZP
President Trump says he has no plans to withdraw U.S. military forces from Iraq, and those troops could re-enter Syria if needed. Last week Trump announced a plan to withdraw American forces from Syria, which caught the Pentagon off-guard and led to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigning in protest - https://wapo.st/2EPuNf0
Uh oh! President Trump posted a video to his Twitter feed during his visit to Iraq that revealed the identities of a covert U.S. Navy Seal team. Defense Department officials said the video was a serious breach of operational security - http://bit.ly/2EQhbjB
During his visit to Iraq, President Trump falsely claimed that he had secured military personnel a "big pay raise" and repeated the falsehood that it was the first pay hike in several years - http://bit.ly/2EPAVnB
The president's trip to Iraq wasn't kept secret for long. After firing off dozens of tweets over the last few days, President Trump suddenly went silent, and amateur aviation watchers posted on social media that they were tracking a mystery plane they quickly figured out was Air Force One - https://wapo.st/2EOZe4U
The Dow bounced back with the biggest single-day jump in history, rising more than 1,000 points on Wednesday. However, the rally is not easing fears that the longest bull market in history may be ending - https://cnn.it/2ESkJSF
Economic officials have told the White House that President Trump's tweets criticizing the Fed are the reason the markets have dropped dramatically over the past weeks - http://bit.ly/2EPNW0s
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker lied on his resume, wrongly claiming he was named Academic All-American during his time as a football player for the University of Iowa - http://bit.ly/2ENQfkw
House Democrats plan to hold hearings on the deaths of two migrant children in U.S. custody - http://bit.ly/2EOBm1p
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital and is recovering at home following surgery to remove two nodules from her lungs - https://nyti.ms/2EMgV54
Democrats are wringing their hands that the top three contenders for the 2020 presidential nominations are all white men - http://bit.ly/2EO7vWR
The White House is considering an executive order to bar U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei - https://reut.rs/2ENOhk8
Recovering from natural disasters cost $155 billion in 2018. Several hit the United States particularly hard - https://wapo.st/2EQnCmF
Bad headlines for President Trump have led to slumping television ratings for one of his biggest cheerleaders in the media, Sean Hannity - http://bit.ly/2EPySQr
Russia claims their hypersonic nuclear missile system, which President Vladimir Putin says is invulnerable to U.S. defenses, will become operational in 2019. U.S. military officials say Russia often makes unfounded claims about their military capability - https://cnn.it/2EPE07e
The legal marijuana industry had a banner year in 2018, with even bigger profits projected for 2019 - http://bit.ly/2EQijDR
More than 4 million children went through a lockdown in U.S. schools last year - https://wapo.st/2EQjEdL

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1831 - Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.
1845 - Journalist John L. O'Sullivan, writing in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argues that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny."
1932 - Radio City Music Hall opened in New York.
1945 - The International Monetary Fund is created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.
1979 - The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1983 - Pope John Paul II met privately in a jail cell with Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who shot and attempted to assassinate the pontiff in 1981. The pope pardoned him.

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