Trump Trip / Bethlehem
- Donald Trump arrives in Bethlehem for talks with Abbas (Al Jazeera)
- Expectations low for Trump’s Bethlehem visit (Al Jazeera)
- Trump: Israelis and Palestinians are ‘ready to reach for peace’ by Annie Karni (Politico)
- Trump Meets With Abbas, but Progress on Peace Remains Elusive by Ian Fisher, Peter Baker (NY Times)
- The huge contrast between Obama’s and Trump’s visits to Israel’s Holocaust memorial by Max Bearak (The Washington Post)
- Opinion: President Trump’s Mideast Contradictions by the Editorial Board (NY Times)
- Donald Trump ends Middle East tour (Al Jazeera)
Russia
- FEC member urges escalated Trump-Russia inquiry by Kenneth P. Vogel (Politico)
- Watch Live: House Intelligence Hearing With John Brennan by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Former C.I.A. chief reveals mounting concern over Trump campaign and Russia by Matt Apuzzo (The NY Times)
- CIA director alerted FBI to pattern of contacts between Russian officials and Trump campaign associates by Greg Miller (Washington Post)
- Opinion: Brennan’s explosive testimony just made it harder for the GOP to protect Trump by Sarah Posner (The Washington Post)
- Ex-CIA chief: Worries grew of Trump campaign contacts to Russia by Patricia Zengerle & Doina Chiacu (Reuters)
Budget
- Trump seeks to slash government spending in budget plan by Roberta Rampton (Reuters)
- Trump has requested $1.6 billion to help build his ‘beautiful’ border wall in 2018 by Esther Yu Hsi Lee (ThinkProgress)
- Trump’s budget would destroy the health coverage of at least 14 million poor people by Tara Culp-Ressler (ThinkProgress)
- Donald Trump’s budget relies on magic economic growth by Matthew Ygleias (Vox)
- Trump’s budget cuts deeply into medicaid and anti-poverty efforts by Julie Hirschfeld Davis (The NY Times)
- The 18 Independent agencies Trump wants to eliminate by Elaine Godfrey (The Atlantic)
- Trump’s cuts to SNAP and Social Security would hit the Rust Belt hard by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
- The dumb accounting error at the heart of Trump’s budget by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Analysis: Trump’s ‘balanced’ budget relies on $2,062,000,000,000 in mystery money by Max Ehrenfeund (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Trump’s budget only works ‘if you believe in tooth fairies’y Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
- Trump’s Own Voters Would Be Among Hardest Hit By His Budget by Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Carrie Dana (NBC.com)
- Here are the 66 programs eliminated in Trump’s budget by Niv Elis (The Hill)
- Analysis: Trump’s Budget Will Hit These States the Hardest by Sam Petulla (NBC.com)
- 45 million Americans rely on food stamps. Trump wants to gut the program by Julia Belluz (Vox)
- The unworkable math of Trump’s budget by Alana Semuels (The Atlantic)
- Medical Research, Health Care Face Deep Cuts In Trump Budget by Alison Kodjak, Rob Stein (NPR)
- Trump Budget’s Paid Parental Leave Plan Could Mean Higher State Taxes by Danielle Kurtzleben (NPR)
- Trump Budget Deals ‘Devastating Blow’ To Low-Income Americans, Advocates Say by Palm Fessler (NPR)
- White House Budget For 2018: Read The Full Plan by Dana Farrington (NPR)
News
- Betsy DeVos Continues to Make Paying Back Student Loans a Nightmare by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Manchester Arena: Donald Trump brands suicide bomber behind terror attack as ‘evil loser’ by Bethan McKernan (Independent)
- Democrats Warn Trump Against Pre-emptive Attack on North Korea by Rick Gladstone (NY Times)
- North Korea, if left unchecked, on ‘inevitable’ path to nuclear ICBM: U.S. by Phil Stewart & Idrees Ali (Reuters)
- Trump’s Immigration Pick Attacked Obama Programs in Ghost-Written Senate Letters by Marcelo Rochabrun (ProPublica)
- California Takes Center Stage in the Resistance to Trump by Sasha Abramsky (The Nation)
Action / Resources
- Demand That Congress Force Trump to Release His Tax Returns by NationAction (The Nation)