The Daily 202: Illinois primary results show angry bases in both parties demanding more purity
PAPER BALLOTS! YES!
-- Committee members also urged states to buy voting machines that produce paper ballots. “The senators said 14 states had used at least some machines in 2016 without a paper trail that could be audited. Five states used only those machines,” notes the New York Times’s Nicholas Fandos and Matthew Rosenberg.
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN:
-- EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt spent more than $120,000 in taxpayer funds last summer for a trip to Italy, which included a private Vatican tour and a short stop at a G-7 meeting. The AP’s Michael Biesecker reports: “The known cost of Pruitt’s previously reported trip grew this week after the agency disclosed a heavily censored document showing expenses for Pruitt’s security detail cost more than $30,500. That’s on top of nearly $90,000 spend for food, hotels, commercial airfare and a military jet used by Pruitt and nine EPA staff. Last June, Pruitt flew to Bologna, Italy, for a meeting of environmental ministers from the world’s top seven economies. Pruitt attended only the first few hours of the summit before leaving early to jet back to Washington for a Cabinet meeting ... EPA’s Office of Inspector General is investigating Pruitt’s 2017 travel costs.”
-- The Koch network ramped up its campaign for an immigration deal that would include a DACA replacement as part of a funding deal. From Seung Min Kim: “In a letter Tuesday to congressional leadership, top officials from three Koch-backed groups — Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Partners and the LIBRE Initiative — pressed Congress to include $25 billion in border security cash paired with a pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants who came here as minors. That offer had been floated by congressional Democrats in recent days.”
STILL THE DUMBEST CONGRESSMAN!
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) introduced a controversial proposal:
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