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!
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